flitted

The name flitted through his mind like a scrap of paper in a high wind, but mentally he reached out and grasped it.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

As the word flitted through her brain she remembered that she had still to put the finishing touches to the paper she was to read the next afternoon at the meeting of the Higher Thought Club.

The Pretext 1908

As the word flitted through her brain she remembered that she had still to put the finishing touches to the paper she was to read the next afternoon at the meeting of the

The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899

The lights flitted from the lower to the upper floors in both houses, and then disappeared somewhere between nine and ten in the evening; and after that, not a sign of life did either tenement show.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894

The name flitted past, and I was glad I had recognised

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

Then a flush, which seemed to make him look older than the whiteness; and then, with a shrill, feeble cry of "Victoire, ma belle!" he tottered toward me so hastily that I thought he must have fallen, but, like a vision, a little figure flitted from the French window of the drawing room, and in a moment my great-grandmother was supporting him, and soothing him with gentle words in French.

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872

I saw the novel just a few weeks ago -- didn't buy it -- and the author's name flitted right out of my skull by the time I hit the checkout counter.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

I saw the novel just a few weeks ago -- didn't buy it -- and the author's name flitted right out of my skull by the time I hit the checkout counter.

The Mondays: The Fall of Television 2009

A bleak expression flitted through her black eyes.

No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

A bleak expression flitted through her black eyes.

No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010