Quotes About Fluttered

Three white feathers fluttered out of the box, swayed and rocked for a moment in the air, and then, one after another, settled gently down upon the floor. They lay like flakes of snow upon the dark polished boards.

I had this memory of being with my aunt, who I loved, you know, and watching her blow some bubbles in sunlight, and my heart fluttered when I watched her.

The third time it landed on her apron, cocked its head, then fluttered to her hand. Luke held his breath. The bird nipped a piece of cake and whisked away. She never moved a muscle. Die and be blamed, but she was beautiful. The breeze ruffling her hair, blooms trimming her silhouetted figure, birds eating out of her hand. He swallowed. He needed to get out of here.

At times on the orchard, the leaves fluttered like locusts. At times they turned upside down and showed their white undersides in an almost embarrassing way. At times they turned orange and brown. And at times they kept spinning off the trees like whirligigs. Now they were perfectly, sublimely still, like an audience. Birdie moved her lips to Enrico's and sighed into them, touching her forehead to his. From the trees, they looked like full-grown lovers.

her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered—as if with her haste.

her heart fluttered like a moth at a porch light.

excitement fluttered in her heart, especially now that her

And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.

He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.

He wore a white lab coat that fluttered to the floor. It was one of his few affectations, the coat that flapped and swirled like a highwayman's cape whenever he walked down the corridors.

Her dressing gown was made of live bats sewn together by their wings: the way they fluttered, one would have thought they didn't much like it.

It fluttered Nicholas's collar and made his eyes water, blurring the stars. And then the sensation of tears seemed to trigger a sort of emotional reflex, for the next thing he knew, Nicholas was truly crying, which surprised him.

Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These quivered as it felt itself impaled. The wide wings fluttered and dark spots upon them showed green and gold for a moment. Then the moth was still. How quickly they die! Ch'iuming said suddenly.

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.

Her cabind, ample Spirit, It flutterd and faild for breath. To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death.

A moth fluttered over the reflection of the moon in the water. She spoke quietly in the still, scented air.