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- noun Plural form of
fluttering .
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Examples
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And there was more that passed through her mind — sensations of tiredness and loneliness; trampling squadrons and shadowy armies of vague feelings and vaguer prompting; and deeper and dimmer whisperings and echoings, the flutterings of forgotten generations crystallized into being and fluttering anew and always, undreamed and unguessed, subtle and potent, the spirit and essence of life that under a thousand deceits and masks forever makes for life.
Chapter XIV 2010
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And as if at a signal, all the multitude of cockroaches took wings of flight and filled the room with their flutterings and circlings.
CHAPTER V 2010
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For them there was nothing left — no more tremblings and flutterings and delicious anguishes, no more throbbing and pulsing, and sighing and song.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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The flutterings the night before the ceremony were sparked by the visitation of a ghost!
Varla Ventura: Bride of the Bizarre: Zombies, Pillowy Brides and Wedding Night Ghosts Varla Ventura 2011
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She says, I'm having the flutterings of the beginnings of a record, for sure.
Michael Bialas: When Playing Favorites, Grace Potter Always Bets On Red Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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It shivered quietly in my hands, like a small bird, and I held it to my ear and listened to its soft flutterings; I held my tongue to the roof of my mouth and tried to remember its taste.
The Future and Why We are Afraid Kenton deAngeli 2011
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After such false flutterings, his guardians refused longer to be thrilled when he crossed the Yellow Sea in a sampan, was “rumored” to have died of beri-beri, was captured from the Russians by the Japanese at Mukden, and endured military imprisonment in Japan.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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The flutterings the night before the ceremony were sparked by the visitation of a ghost!
Varla Ventura: Bride of the Bizarre: Zombies, Pillowy Brides and Wedding Night Ghosts Varla Ventura 2011
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Ms. Fisher's birdlike dance postures resembled a hawk's flutterings.
He Crosses Borders Brett Campbell 2010
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Ms. Fisher's birdlike dance postures resembled a hawk's flutterings.
He Crosses Borders Brett Campbell 2010
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