Slowly it
fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it.
At the same moment the bird
fluttered down upon the hat and once more sat snugly on her eggs.
There was no sunshine, but the clouds were high, and the wind was so still that the yellow leaves which
fluttered down from the hedgerow elms must have fallen from pure decay.
"My man," she said, looking at me for an instant with tremulous lids which
fluttered down and veiled her eyes as she snuggled her head against my breast with a happy little sigh.
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had
fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
Then the flock took flight with much screaming, but one fell dead, and the cloak
fluttered down. Then the Hunter did as the old woman had told him: he cut open the bird, found its heart, swallowed it, and took the cloak home with him.
25 Frimaire; year XIII; Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness, Pius VII.' On the next morning, the inhabitants of Rome saw the same balloon soaring above the Vatican, whence it crossed the Campagna, and finally
fluttered down into the lake of Bracciano.
While he spoke, the butterfly
fluttered down from the doctor's snowy head, and fell upon the floor.
"It is really pleasant enough," said he: "the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it." He now
fluttered down into the grass, turned his head gracefully on every side, and with his bill pecked the pliant blades of grass, which, in comparison to his present size, seemed as majestic as the palm-branches of northern Africa.
Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and
fluttered down upon us as we passed.
Her eyes
fluttered down, then they opened and looked into his with soft defiance.
Henry thought long over it before he went to sleep, and as his eyelids
fluttered down and he dozed off, the thought in his mind was: "There's no mistakin' it, Bill's almighty blue.
The eyes
fluttered down, but Daylight knew the message had been received.
"I am ruined, mother--ruined!" He stood gazing wildly in front of him, while the sheet of paper
fluttered down on the carpet.
The magpie
fluttered down into the court, swearing, and the Madman danced out, howling, with his fingers in his mouth.