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• “Pretty blonde Polly flits from the city to the beach with her many friends, but her life is a sea of tranquility compared to the many mishaps of her “Paw,” Sam Perkins.”

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• “My brain flits from subject to subject, restless and prickly, trying to pin down something worthy of attention.”

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• “The magic of a name flits, like a migratory bird, across the Atlantic.”

  The Woman with the Fan

• “The word flits about like an evil spirit in our national vocabulary -- but none of us knows exactly what it means.”

  American Thinker

• “Triviality, varied by touches of ill-breeding and sententiousness," it elaborated; "she has nothing in her mind except the wish to tell her sister everything; and so she flits from the cows to the currant bushes, from the currant bushes to Mrs. Hall of Sherborne, gives Mrs. Hall a tap, and flits back again" (362-63; cf. even Austen-Leigh’s Memoir 207).”

  Boxing Emma; or the Reader’s Dilemma at the Box Hill Games

• “His expression can only be described as “pouty” and he just kind of flits about looking high all the time.”

  The Road Not Taken · A Television Break–Kings

• “The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day.”

  Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described

• “Cirque du Freak" races so fast (sorry, "flits") that no one has any motive except the oft-repeated "Matrix" - esque explanation that "it is written.”

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• “She tugs at the sleeves on her shirt and her hand kind of flits about like she's not quite sure what to do with it.”

  Nashville Scene

• “The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal ” while not the slightest breeze was stirring ” presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day.”

  Wild Western Scenes

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