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wound themselves around the flitting,
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grey in shadow and urgency, flitting this way and that, here and there,
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Throughout his twenties and into his early thirties Tom played the part of a very willing Casanova, flitting from one bed to another, living for the moment and for the beauty of every freshly explored country
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the part of a very willing Casanova, flitting from one bed to
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She hesitates, all sorts of emotions flitting across her face
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“Did you know that the city was mentioned almost 2000 years ago in Egyptian records?” Elizabeth asked as we sat and watched butterflies flitting through the flowers
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We often saw them flitting in and out of tree branches, falling to earth to pick up a seed or a worm, then back into the foliage
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He ignored the bees flitting from bloom to bloom as well as the nodding heads of pansies and petunias along the back of the house
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She knew she should head down to dinner, but the butterflies flitting through her stomach had taken hold and left her with a sense of nervousness
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The remnants of the fighting forces that had so confidently entered the labyrinth such a short time ago, was now blindly following the flitting black figure along the twisting passageways, doing their best to dodge the rocks still falling from above, hoping against hope that their path-finder knew where he was going
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his troubled gaze flitting between the two
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In retrospect, I must have seemed mad, flitting around everywhere, unable to keep any thought for more than a moment
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Flitting around us were beautiful birds and butterflies
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The full moon was trying to do its thing but Joe Billie noticed the clouds flitting across its face creating eerie shadows on the sugar sand and surrounding foliage
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I walked directly to the table and stared at it, my eyes flitting from the passport to the lamp and back again
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Looking over Bloodtooth‘s shoulder she could see wispy clouds flitting across the moon‘s face, some the color of dirty linen, others dark and purplish
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
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Flitting around in a P I is not the same as lumbering through space in kind of monster you’re flying now
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Last night there were many thoughts flitting here and there in my head which gave a feeling of being trapped, but that was because we were both so afraid of what we were thinking of each other
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“There she is!” another one shouted pointing at a dark shape ahead of them that was flitting towards a dark street between two blocks of flats
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She was flitting about and ignoring her most of the
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Birds were singing, flitting
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I still remember thinking I could see Judy, the fairy, flitting along ahead of me, so I picked up my pace to try to catch up
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two (or more!) opposed areas and thus spend their lives flitting back and forth between the two, never really settling on either and therefore enjoy only mediocre success where run-away superstardom awaited in one"
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I’ve never seen them out in the open like this, only flitting
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I've never seen them out in the open like this, only flitting
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The tendency of eyes of restlessly flitting here and there must
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In the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a shadow flitting across the rooftops
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The horde of flitting shadows sped towards his brothers and Dalynara
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Lena moved like a bird, hopping in one direction and snatching up a cake of soap in another and then flitting over to Killian
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That is when I noticed a lone firefly flitting
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Lo and behold, there was that lone firefly flitting near the large live
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The thought passed on, flitting away into the auditorium that I had forgotten existed, around and beyond several of my friends and relatives
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Birds could be heard flitting about amidst the tree branches near
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She’d been flitting around this office with those incredible legs for too long
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Flitting his eyes, Rad went on with his survey
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air flitting here and there keeping out of sight of the
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After his initial blunderings through his recovered physical instance, flitting like a moth from flame to mortal flame, he’d become totally captured by the stark allure of war, wherever he could find it
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He bumped into Susannah, who was flitting around filling people’s glasses from a jeroboam
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And Thomas was still out there, flitting from one bush to another, taking stock and awaiting his chance to attack again
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As Darcy played games with her audience, flitting here and there and touching shoulders, Hal stared once more at the ground
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I shivered as his practiced fingertips skimmed my back, flitting like butterflies along my spine
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Approaching poetry, he likened her to a little flitting busy bird in spring
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He paced the garden in the hot evenings, smoking beneath the lime-trees where he and she at the beginning used so gaily to breakfast, and forgot how slow of movement and mind she had been for several years, how little he had really seen of her, how more and more his attitude towards her had been one of patience; and when he went in to his supper, which he suddenly did not like and criticised, what he found himself looking for was not the figure he had been used to find lying silent on the sofa, but the quick, light, flitting thing that laughed and pulled his ears, the Ingeborg of the beginning, his little sheep
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Harvey’s reaction was a beat late; he panted, flitting around in air to stay airborne
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The third vampire seemed to be with them but was flitting around talking to many young humans
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But the Craven, never flitting,
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His eyes were still flitting around the room and she realized he expected the Captain to be with her
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just how successful you were in controlling the flitting impulses of the mind and will
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solemn and cool, with birds flitting to and fro high up the
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The two officers pleaded with me as my workers gave way little by little and Magdi was the eager go-between, flitting now here, now there, extracting concessions from the mob and cajoling and pleading with me
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Try keeping your awareness from flitting around in your head like a fly
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Her eyes were flitting between Derrick, Dylan and the area in between the boys locker room and the café, where Landon Crane and his buddies hung around
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"Watch it, Harrington," Massie said, playing along, but he could see different, confused emotions flitting through those amber eyes, "or I might beat you up
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flitting back to land on her shoulder and watch the
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Exactly like the attention span of birds, flitting from one thing to the next
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Until they grow wings, and ‘fly’… until these undead human baby auras are permanently frozen into a state of flitting distraction, until their awareness is permanently poisoned into a state of flitting from one thing to the next… never learning anything, never growing as a human is designed to grow, staying permanently in a state of helplessness, unawareness, immaturity… until after centuries of this poisoning by undead unseen birds inside their human-baby auras: they become twisted and morphed into gargoyles of horror
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I glanced to the side at Zora, who was smiling as she watched the butterflies flitting around the weed flowers growing along the roadside ditches to either side of us
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She tried to keep her thoughts and face a calm mask, but her mind couldn’t help flitting around
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A flitting shadow across one of the chapel's ornate windows
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The Sadducees concluded that while many things spoken by Moses and the prophets darkly forecasted a future life, yet other scriptures seemed to exclude that hope, and the balance of testimony appeared to revert against the notion, and thus they drifted into skepticism, figuring that the hope of a future life was the flitting of an “angel phantom” across the brain
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Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest
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The images of the previous day began of themselves, apart from my will, flitting through my memory in confusion
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Both the expressions flitting over her face, and the changes of her moods, began to alarm me terribly; and brought to my recollection her former illness, and the doctor's injunction that she should not be crossed
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If he had come nearer, he would probably be aware, from the lights flitting to and fro, and the opening and shutting of the outer doors, that all was not right within
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That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy
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She’s flitting about like she hasn’t got a care in the world
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And the Raven never flitting still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door …
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a Firefly flitting over his head
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The place, seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the shades of the infernal regions, across which unhappy ghosts and savage demons were flitting in multitudes
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The chief beauty of trees consists in the deep shadow of their umbrageous boughs, while fancy pictures a moving multitude of shapes and forms flitting and passing beneath that shade
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“Nay,” rejoined the young minister, putting his hand to his heart, with a flush of pain flitting over his brow, “were I worthier to walk there, I could be better content to toil here
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Just then, she heard her mother's voice, and flitting along as lightly as one of the little sea-birds, appeared before Hester Prynne, dancing, laughing, and pointing her finger to the ornament upon her bosom
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This flitting cheerfulness was always at the farther extremity of some long vista through the forest
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“Heaven grant it be a better one; for, in good sooth, I hardly think to tarry with my flock through the flitting seasons of another year! But, touching your medicine, kind Sir, in my present frame of body, I need it not
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She saw a pregnant woman harvesting beans in a field that had escaped the English torches; the scared faces of two children looking out from the blackened stones of a manor house; and several small groups of men, usually flitting through the fringes of woodland, moving with the alert purposefulness of scavengers
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Parliament was in the process of passing new legislation to stop labourers flitting about the country demanding
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He spoke quietly, his eyes flitting here and there as if the restaurant might be filled with spies
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It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond
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And for the initiated it was a wonderful place, this drawing-room of the Casa Gould, with its momentary glimpses of the master—El Senor Administrador—older, harder, mysteriously silent, with the lines deepened on his English, ruddy, out-of-doors complexion; flitting on his thin cavalryman's legs across the doorways, either just "back from the mountain" or with jingling spurs and riding-whip under his arm, on the point of starting "for the mountain
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He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired
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She is waking from a nap, in the mid-to-late afternoon, in the spring, bits and pieces of her flitting down from the corners of a sunny room and assembling themselves into the person she is now
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I took a breath, debated flitting over to some other harmless subject, the weather or something, then didn’t
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He soon became aware also that though they walked alone, there were many men close at hand: not only Damrod and Mablung flitting in and out of the shadows ahead, but others on either side, all making their swift secret way to some appointed place
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Once more they started, crawling from hollow to hollow, flitting behind such cover as they could find, but moving always in a slant towards the foothills of the northern range
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The kids were flitting around in the kitchen too, probably waiting to see how long Nana could sit still
