Fluttering

Lumber was purchased and swathed in fluttering robes of Tyvek. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the closest business to the intersection where the SSNP (Qom) flag is still fluttering from a barrel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Or cast away as slain, she called their fluttering spirits back, ❋ Eva Hope (N/A)

On my way home it snowed in fluttering flakes, and the frozen, ghostly moon was reflected in my dull-red sleeves of glossy silk. ❋ B. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu (1920)

What a twittering and fluttering is there; what a show of gaping, clamouring mouths when the mother-bird brings a tit-bit home. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

Miss Hazel fluttering from the door, in one breath welcomed the guests, presented the lieutenant, and ordered ❋ Unknown (1907)

Some six or eight Arabs in fluttering white garments ran on ahead to bid us a last good-bye. ❋ Unknown (1891)

This fluttering is no doubt caused by some light puff of air setting the leaf in motion, and then dying away without any regular current to follow its course; the capricious movement continues until the force of the impulse is exhausted, and the giddy leaf has tired itself out. ❋ Unknown (1887)

To commemorate their secret love, Eleanor modeled for Montagu’s personal hood ornament, and Sykes crafted a figurine of her in fluttering robes, pressing a finger against her lips – to symbolize the secrets of their love. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Stormlight, listening, recalled the fluttering high grass, the Istarian infantry passing so closely that he could smell the sweaty leather, read the elaborate gold insignia of the Istarian Guard. ❋ Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- (1994)

I beheld with joy numerous demijohns with labels fluttering like ragged cravats from their long necks; likewise stacks of vegetables, juicy joints, fruits, and more demijohns, together with a small portable iceberg; blankets were there, also guns, pistols, and fishing tackle. ❋ Charles Warren Stoddard (1876)

She listened to them as they came from afar, recognising particularly in this warm, beautiful night, so calm that there was not the slightest movement in the air, the delicate sound which she was wont to call the fluttering of the robe of Agnes, when her dear guardian angel came to her side. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

The orchestra, 102 strong, obeys the twitches of a single skinny baton, itself a slave to the regiment of numerical subtitles fluttering at the bottom of the picture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_species_ and _differentia_, into formal classes, under general notions, and with -- yes! with written labels fluttering on the stalks instead of blossoms -- a botanic or physic garden, as they used to say, instead of our flower-garden and orchard. ❋ Elizabeth Atkins (N/A)

After a series of spy scandals in 1985, the CIA's security men were ordered to be especially aggressive about "fluttering" agency officials. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I wonder, is there some unwritten rule that perhaps is, you know, kind of fluttering about Washington which says if you're going to work this closely with the president, even upon your departure, whether it was good or bad, you almost never say something unflattering about the commander in chief? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was seized with an odd kind of fluttering, and begged Win to throw herself in his way: but the poor girl has weak nerves, and was afraid of his beard. ❋ Unknown (2004)