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The frames spoke, in the solemn awed voice which people use when they have just come across something entirely new for the very first time. "I'm only a poor puffy little flutterer," said the Steam, "but I have to stand a good deal of pressure in my business. It's all tremendously interesting. Tell us some more. You fellows are so strong." "Watch us and you'll see," said the bow-plates, proudly.
She had hoped that her friend Ino had at last captured the flutterer, and that he would begin to live a settled life with her, as master of a house of his own; and now, for a pretty face, he had thrown everything to the winds, even the duty of self-preservation.
Your cage shall have golden wires, and you shall be fed on delicacies, my little flutterer so smooth the feathers of your bright wings, my dear, and sing your sweetest notes!" Fanny burst into tears, and fell on her knees before the old libertine. Young and innocent as she was, a dark suspicion of his purpose came like a shadow over her soul, and she cried in piteous accents
His general effect was of one who is earnestly keeping up things that might otherwise give way, keeping them up by act and voice, keeping up an atmosphere of vigour and success in a school that was only too manifestly attenuated, keeping up a pretentious economy of administration in a school that must not be too manifestly impoverished, keeping up a claim to be in the scientific van and rather a flutterer of dovecots with its method of manual training for example keeping up ESPRIT DE CORPS and the manliness of himself and every one about him, keeping up his affection for his faithful second wife and his complete forgetfulness of and indifference to that spirit of distracting impulse and insubordination away there in London, who had once been his delight and insurmountable difficulty.
This was the stool pigeon. We also called him the flutterer or hoverer. "Now give us the flyers." Amos took out two more pigeons, and we tied long and strong strings to their boots. "Now they're ready. But there's hardly enough string for the long flyer. We ought to let him go up at least forty feet." "Cut a little off the string of the short flyer then, and tie it on to the other.
Her discovery, perhaps, confirmed her in her countenance to Percival's progressive wooing, and half reconciled her to the pangs it inflicted on herself. At the first introduction Ardworth had scarcely glanced at Percival. He regarded him but as the sleek flutterer in the sunshine of fortune.
You see poor, giddy flutterer he did not like to hear the plain truth spoken; flattery would have pleased him better, yet truth, though sometimes bitter, is a wholesome tonic when taken properly. The summer days sped fast, for Father Time's scythe is never idle, and he was gradually, though slowly, mowing down the flowers which had garlanded the sunny hours.
I held it up, the flutterer lighted upon it, and at first slowly, warily, and then triumphantly, I lowered it under the lintel out into the veranda, and the bird darted away into the garden and was gone like a soul into heaven.
Smithson had fluttered and fluttered for the last five seasons; but this time the flutterer was caught. In her newly-awakened anxiety about money matters, Lesbia had forgotten Mary's engagement: but the sight of Maulevrier recalled the fact. 'Come over here and sit down, she said, 'and tell me this nonsense about Mary. I am expiring with curiosity. The thing is too absurd.
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