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Flits back to The Aerie, his richly-appointed crime-fighting closet
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Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull gray sky.
Collected Poems 2003
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"Wet sands marbled with moon and cloud" -- "Flits by the sea-blue bird of March" -- "Leafless ribs and iron horns" -- "When the long dun wolds are ribbed with snow" -- in all these cases one word is the keystone of an arch which would fall into ruin without it.
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(Flits through portiere as G. attempts to catch her, and bolts her self in her own room.)
The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky.
Humanitad 1881
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Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky.
Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1877
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Flits through resonant valleys and skims by boulder and foam.
Ballads Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Memoriam_, LXXXIX., 1850, the last line mentioned by W.T. M. is "Flits by the sea-blue bird of March," instead of "blue sea-bird."
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John Lithgow's "Drama: An Actor's Education" opens with the production that brought his life's work into focus: a bedside dramatization of the hilarious P. G. Wodehouse story "Uncle Fred Flits By."
NYT > Home Page By ADA CALHOUN 2011
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In the hilarious Uncle Fred Flits By, Lithgow conjures nine outrageous characters with zany abandon to tell the story of a skeptical nephew's surprising and endearing journey with his unstoppable uncle.
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