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Definition of Flittered
1. flitter [v] - See also: flitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flittered
Literary usage of Flittered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"... which was ten foot large from the head to the tail, and smote the boar all to
powder both flesh and bones, that it flittered all abroad on the sea. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"As he slept on a bearskin, on the ground, he was roused by their noisy intrusion,
and thirty daggers (flittered before his eyes. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"... of ( England radically flittered from the various nonconformist beets, which,
to the popular mind, claimed equally to represent primitive Christianity. ..."
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