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1. We work hard; you flit around without a care
2. How long it would be before Ozzie and Chrissie noticed he had done a flit? What would they do? If they had any sense, they would get out and make for civilisation
3. Thesa's black form continued to flit in and out of the enemy's lines, gouging here, slashing there, hard to see in the shadows cast by the tall walls of the labyrinth, but he could do little to stop his comrades from falling around him with horrifying regularity
4. Unfortunately, negative thoughts tend to flit into our consciousness, do their damage and flit back out again, with their significance having barely been noticed
5. This is important because often these stresses flit in and out of our minds without getting the attention and focus that they deserve
6. In silence, the others watched as Jarek seemed to flit from branch to branch followed by a more careful Melvin
7. He only stared, watching the lantern-lit hackney coaches flit here and there through the streets; watching the candles-in-windows, symbols of Warock
8. 4 "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And yet, when these birds flit about in quest of their sustenance, not one of them exists without the knowledge of the Father, the source of all life
9. They were in a hiatus from engagement and no one looked up to see our seven birds flit past
10. Noël Borgax has really done a moonlight flit
11. The danger that kept Jodas from a restful sleep also saved his life, sitting with his son in the nursery room he saw a shadow flit past the window opening, someone was on the roof, quietly leaving the child he went to Bunda’s quarters two rooms down the passageway, Bunda was fully dressed standing by the window in the dark, he turned, held up two fingers and pointed up towards the roof, they silently left the room moving towards the inside stairs recruiting four guards along the way, at the top of the stairs Jodas very slowly withdrew the bolts and they concealed themselves either side of the door, after what seemed an eternity the door slowly, ever so slowly, began to open, a foot then a head and finally the body came through the door, the second assassin following, both killers were dressed from head to toe in black clothes, when they were three steps past the door Jodas sprang the trap, after a violent struggle they were soon overwhelmed, stripped, bound and dragged, not too gently, down the stairs, the noise had brought more guards running and Jodas ordered a complete room by room search in case there were more killers lurking in the palace, the noise had woken everyone and Gled came down the passage carrying the baby, one of the assassins seeing her spat towards her and screamed that she’d get the same treatment as that whore Red Fawn, one of the guards hit him on the side of the head with the flat of his sword and he keeled over unconscious, Gled carried off this verbal attack with a nonchalance that gained great respect from everyone present, she then asked if anyone had been hurt, getting an answer in the negative she said goodnight and walked away as regal as any goddess
12. ‘If you are a flit, whether you were
13. flit must be the first in his whole family line of thousands of generations, maybe
14. Actually I know a few boys who flipped into a flit because they thought it was
15. ‘Then, by definition, he is not a true flit
16. specifically an assault by a paedophile flit kid-‐fucker
17. was that he nearly flipped into a flit when he was a young guy, but that reading
18. Reflections in front of the War Memorial I felt like I was in flit city
19. It did flit through my mind that he might have walked us round in a complete four-sided circle for all the attention I was paying
20. Her chin quivers and her lips flit up and down as if they aren’t sure what emotions they’re supposed to show
21. For example, they can flit around space, but look how they mine for gold
22. “You’d have thought she would have said something if she was planning a quick flit somewhere, even with her mother
23. I saw the memory of our elevator conversation flit across her face
24. And flit instantly to another living person’s aura simply by harmonizing with that other person’s aura
25. They easily poison their sense of Pure Wonder by making their attention span flit from one thing to the other
26. Suddenly they flit
27. Suddenly they flit upon the heat into the cold, nor ever do they know of there two which is worst for them, for each is intolerable…And this same wan hope is their greatest torment, that none have any hope of any recovery, but are sure of ever ill, to continue in woe, world without end, even in eternity
28. All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
29. Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing
30. You can tell her to flit, when you go up; here is the key
31. Truly it was impossible to dissociate her presence from all those wretched hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed my boyhood,—from all those ill-regulated aspirations that had first made me ashamed of home and Joe,—from all those visions that had raised her face in the glowing fire, struck it out of the iron on the anvil, extracted it from the darkness of night to look in at the wooden window of the forge, and flit away
32. In these lengthened vigils, his brain often reeled, and visions seemed to flit before him; perhaps seen doubtfully, and by a faint light of their own, in the remote dimness of the chamber, or more vividly, and close beside him, within the looking-glass
33. Old Luce knew who every flit and Lesbian in the United States was
34. All you had to do was mention somebody--anybody--and old Luce'd tell you if he was a flit or not
35. You'd keep saying to him, "You mean Joe Blow's a flit? Joe Blow? That big, tough guy that plays gangsters and cowboys all the time?" Old Luce'd say, "Certainly
36. I kept waiting to turn into a flit or something
37. "Hey, I got a flit for you," I told him
38. I mean I started thinking that even if he was a flit he certainly'd been very nice to me
39. Mrs Pawkie, on hearing what I had suffered from Mrs Beaufort, was very zealous that I should punish her to the utmost rigour of the law, even to drumming her out of the town; but forbearance was my best policy, so I only persuaded my colleagues to order the players to decamp, and to give the Tappit-hen notice, that it would be expedient for the future sale of her pies and porter, at untimeous hours, and that she should flit her howff from our town
40. The drowsy answers—grumpy, conciliating, savage, jocular, or deprecating—came out into the silent darkness in which the horseman sat still, and presently a dark figure would flit out coughing in the still air
41. Never again through that ill-omened tunnel shall any strange shape flit out into the world of men
42. She was using her hummingbird speed to flit in circles around the guards, who looked so dizzy and confused that it was almost kind of pathetic
43. Shadows seemed to flit in the corners of Kathleen’s vision
44. For a long time, there was only pitch darkness, but then there came a flit of dim light
45. Do you know all the mystery of life and death? Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others? Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps? Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that come out at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their veins, how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them and then, and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?"
46. At times he saw shadows flit across them, and his heart began to beat
47. Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened by the daylight, or which has broken its wing
48. She thought she saw a shadow flit behind his eyes and regretted teasing him
49. In a coffin-sized phone booth speaking to people lost somewhere across night hills, two white-faced boys were crammed, holding to each other at every flit of bat, each sliding of cloud across the stars
50. At length the jays arrive, whose discordant screams were heard long before, as they were warily making their approach an eighth of a mile off, and in a stealthy and sneaking manner they flit from tree to tree, nearer and nearer, and pick up the kernels which the squirrels have dropped
1. A grim expression flits across his face for an instant
2. What was that? Something flits past me, a high pitched noise – a bat! Now bats, there’re a different story, somehow magical
3. It flits about on broken wings
4. “TINKERBELLE!! Because of the way she flits around the cabin!” David laughed
5. everywhere, in all the schools, but the flits don’t have the numbers, they just
6. I spotted a couple of flits walking by, hand in
7. because a flit’s parents couldn’t possibly have been flits themselves because they,
8. by definition, should never have had children if they had been flits
9. A bewildered look flits across his face and he pauses, as if he noticed something, too
10. Then she catches sight of a kid with a kite and flits away to go ask him a million questions
11. The tongue which pools from its mouth to taste the air is forked in three and flits before her eyes as if it is a diamond prize plucked forth from the greatest mine in the most exotic of countries
12. Incog Haroun al Raschid he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched in aniseed
13. Not all that far from her, Jutta Pfennig sleeps in the ultramarine shadows of the girls’ dormitory and dreams of light thickening and settling across a field like snow; and not all that far from Jutta, the führer raises a glass of warm (but never boiled) milk to his lips, a slice of Oldenburg black bread on his plate and a whole apple beside it, his daily breakfast; while in a ravine outside Kiev, two inmates rub their hands in sand because they have become slippery, and then they take up the stretcher again while a sonderkommando stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a wagtail flits from flagstone to flagstone in a courtyard in Berlin, searching for snails to eat; and at the Napola school at Schulpforta, one hundred and nineteen twelve- and thirteen-year-olds wait in a queue behind a truck to be handed thirty-pound antitank land mines, boys who, in almost exactly one year, marooned amid the Russian advance, the entire school cut off like an island, will be given a box of the Reich’s last bitter chocolate and Wehrmacht helmets salvaged from dead soldiers, and then this final harvest of the nation’s youth will rush out with the chocolate melting in their guts and overlarge helmets bobbing on their shorn heads and sixty Panzerfaust rocket launchers in their hands in a last spasm of futility to defend a bridge that no longer requires defending, while T-34 tanks from the White Russian army come clicking and rumbling toward them to destroy them all, every last child; dawn in Saint-Malo, and there is a twitch on the other side of the wardrobe—Werner hears Marie-Laure inhale, Marie-Laure hears Werner scrape three fingernails across the wood, a sound not unlike the sound of a record coursing beneath the surface of a needle, their faces an arm’s reach apart
14. The other end of the bar was full of flits
15. They weren't too flitty-looking--I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything--but you could tell they were flits anyway
16. And flits and Lesbians
17. people he said were flits and Lesbians and all, movie actors and like that
18. Some of the ones he said were flits were even married, for God's sake
19. He said half the married guys in the world were flits and didn't even know it
20. I've known quite a few real flits, at schools and all, and they're always doing stuff like that, and that's why I always had my doubts about old Luce
21. “Yes, because when you’re moving from this project to this project, your mind flits back to the original project, and it can’t pick it up where it left off
22. Enjoy simple technicals? IYF spends the whole time under its 50-day MA, while SKF flits around it several times, and basically spends half the quarter above and half below
23. Annoyance flits across his face
24. Fear flits across his face
25. My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas
26. With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wings
1. Vague memories of religious education lessons in school flitted through his mind, but none of it made any sense
2. Meanwhile Flitter, true to his name, flitted about checking all manner of vegetation
3. my mind, when witnessing love stories other than mine, flitted in
4. ” Her mind flitted back to the memory of her father’s empty-casket funeral, in which she was sincerely and lovingly embraced by the Emperor himself
5. A butterfly flitted past
6. The gentle summer night’s breeze flitted through Aspen’s hair, tickling her cheek on which a single tear rested
7. Birds chattered as they flitted from branch to branch
8. Birds twittered, then flitted to the ground, searched for food and flew to another tree
9. She was so fixated with Raven, feeling irritation prickle within her every time Millicent’s vulgar form flitted across her vision
10. Then darting forward, each tiny creature unloaded its precious bubble of oxygen into the fine structure, the water frothing as their small bodies flitted hither and thither, diving this way and that
11. He ran his eyes down her body, and a smile flitted on his lips
12. Moonbeams lit his path, as he flitted from room to room
13. Monstrously huge shiny claws and arms seemed to move and lift improbable loads with surprising ease, other smaller machines flitted like metal birds while overhead a lattice of glass tubes that could fit a foaming river inside them seemed to emit pulses of intense light
14. Some flitted back and forth over a few inches of space, but most stood stock still, cleaning their mandibles or antennae
15. The red dot of light that flitted on its black glass-like band had turned into a blurry glow
16. Trevor’s brow creased, and his keen eyes flitted restlessly
17. Jason really his offspring? He dismissed the preposterous thought as quickly as it had flitted into his mind from somewhere
18. Sparrow’s face flitted to look at Orphenn
19. Among the people was a young man named Apuni (“Butterfly,” apparently an earlier name of Seagull), who flitted about the plains until he came to the great mountains in the west
20. Her sister was a local celebrity, a true social butterfly and like all such members of that species, she flitted around the city, never alighting in any one place for very long
21. Maggie’s eyes flitted up the stairs to where she knew Libuse’s room must be
22. Her eyes flitted around the table nervously before going back to her husband
23. The thought had also flitted through his mind that if he stayed close to his enemy then he might be in a position to undermine him at some future point, something Ralph had said to him once, a lifetime ago
24. But why hadn’t he simply done this when he’d escaped? The question flitted through the scribe’s mind, but he knew as he stared at the mind-cane what the answers might be
25. “It was more, so much more than that!” Moshe replied, as a jumble of memories where he had heard that same voice, beyond his own thoughts, and felt warned or helped in a particular way, flitted across his inner consciousness
26. Drawing back his mind from the other paths it had flitted down, he concentrated on the thing which shouldn’t have been there
27. Standing up, he flitted past the meditation area—with its one candle, long unlit now—and the reading chair, and knelt down in front of the storage box
28. Birds sang and butterflies flitted among the flowers
29. Graver’s eyes flitted to the rearview mirror, though there were no cars behind us
30. Her thoughts flitted to Miami, to Tobias,
31. His thoughts flitted back to the motel room, to Rochelle, to her
32. Edgar, ethereal in silvery tights flitted athletically around his master, triggering excited murmurs from the expectant audience
33. His brain flitted again over everything that had happened until, little by little, doubts began to worm their way into newfound certainties
34. Three shadows flitted down the back stairs pursued by a furious Hazel wielding a short length of pipe
35. Black dots flitted around the screen indicating that time was moving swiftly forwards
36. They flitted from cover to cover until they came to a clearing
37. He felt like a king but didn’t see the cold little smile that flitted across her face
38. A faint smile flitted across the smooth face
39. Like twin fireflies they flitted through the trees and bushes, noiselessly announcing the expected arrival
40. As much as I tried to focus on the task in hand, I couldn't keep still and my eyes flitted across hundreds of nameless faces, searching for Paul's, convinced he was going to show up
41. Though the moon had been up only an hour its austere presence seemed to mock the vaporous clouds that flitted fretfully across its globular, glowing face
42. Grandfather had been right because Joe Billie had saved his mother when he killed his father at the hog trap or was that the turd head rancher who had killed his Stump? As the thought of the deaf dog flitted through his memory, Joe Billie‘s face softened for the briefest
43. She flitted around like a butterfly firing missiles
44. The moon flitted in and out of the clouds, but with little effect to the blackness of the night
45. Little memories from childhood flitted back to him
46. It darted to Malik’s head, causing him to gasp, then it flitted to the light above, where it and the other moth cast giant shadows throughout the room
47. He flitted around the room, throwing himself into artistic
48. She flitted around, with Johnny and sans, met all
49. His eyes flitted to the
50. We went up river one day, monkeys flitted among the trees above us
1. wound themselves around the flitting,
2. grey in shadow and urgency, flitting this way and that, here and there,
3. 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
4. the part of a very willing Casanova, flitting from one bed to
5. She hesitates, all sorts of emotions flitting across her face
6. “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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. his troubled gaze flitting between the two
12. In retrospect, I must have seemed mad, flitting around everywhere, unable to keep any thought for more than a moment
13. Flitting around us were beautiful birds and butterflies
14. 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
15. I walked directly to the table and stared at it, my eyes flitting from the passport to the lamp and back again
16. 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
17. And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
18. Flitting around in a P I is not the same as lumbering through space in kind of monster you’re flying now
19. 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
20. “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
21. She was flitting about and ignoring her most of the
22. Birds were singing, flitting
23. 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
24. 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"
25. I’ve never seen them out in the open like this, only flitting
26. I've never seen them out in the open like this, only flitting
27. The tendency of eyes of restlessly flitting here and there must
28. In the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a shadow flitting across the rooftops
29. The horde of flitting shadows sped towards his brothers and Dalynara
30. Lena moved like a bird, hopping in one direction and snatching up a cake of soap in another and then flitting over to Killian
31. That is when I noticed a lone firefly flitting
32. Lo and behold, there was that lone firefly flitting near the large live
33. The thought passed on, flitting away into the auditorium that I had forgotten existed, around and beyond several of my friends and relatives
34. Birds could be heard flitting about amidst the tree branches near
35. She’d been flitting around this office with those incredible legs for too long
36. Flitting his eyes, Rad went on with his survey
37. air flitting here and there keeping out of sight of the
38. 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
39. He bumped into Susannah, who was flitting around filling people’s glasses from a jeroboam
40. And Thomas was still out there, flitting from one bush to another, taking stock and awaiting his chance to attack again
41. As Darcy played games with her audience, flitting here and there and touching shoulders, Hal stared once more at the ground
42. I shivered as his practiced fingertips skimmed my back, flitting like butterflies along my spine
43. Approaching poetry, he likened her to a little flitting busy bird in spring
44. 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
45. Harvey’s reaction was a beat late; he panted, flitting around in air to stay airborne
46. The third vampire seemed to be with them but was flitting around talking to many young humans
47. But the Craven, never flitting,
48. His eyes were still flitting around the room and she realized he expected the Captain to be with her
49. just how successful you were in controlling the flitting impulses of the mind and will
50. solemn and cool, with birds flitting to and fro high up the
