"Flitter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said he, 'that you have somewhat restored yourself, will you be kind enough to tell me in what sort of crime I have become a partner? Are you murderer, smuggler, thief, or only the harmless and domestic moonlight flitter?' ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson
... persisted, "clearly and indisputably ptig nupy uggydug!"—a phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile. ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... in solemn salvatory, Sealed from the moth and the owl and the flitter-mouse— Each with his name on his brow. 'All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Every one in his own ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau[obs3], screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet[obs3], flitter, gobbet[obs3], mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive[obs3]; snip, snippet; snick[obs3], snack, snatch, slip, scrag[obs3]; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... landscape, I was conscious again, of a blurring sort of 'flitter,' that came either from the light of the ponderous-swinging sun-stream, or was the result of the incredibly rapid changes of the earth's surface. And every few moments, so it seemed, the snow would lie suddenly ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... all Dan could utter. He could not express his feelings; repugnance filled his heart at the thought of taking money for what he had done. He felt the woman's eyes fixed upon him. What would she think, of him, Dan Flitter, taking money for saving people's lives? He gave one quick glance in her direction, turned, and pushing the boat from the shore, sprang in, leaving the man and the woman upon the ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody |
