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Definition of Flittering
1. flitter [v] - See also: flitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flittering
Literary usage of Flittering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hymns and Songs for Children's Worship: Together with Selections for (1869)
"2 Its flittering towers the sun outshine; We '11 be gathered home; That heavenly
mansion shall be mine; We '11 be gathered home. Chorus. We '11 wait, &c. ..."
2. St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas (1900)
"8, Act H. flittering, fluttering out of the sky, Primrose-petal or butter- ...
flittering, fluttering, off she goes, Wherever the fragrant south wind blows. ..."
3. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"Attacks of headache without disturbances of sight are more common than flittering
scotoma without headache. The disordered vision is always an early ..."
4. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of North Carolina by North Carolina Board of Agriculture, North Carolina, Board of Agriculture (1912)
"... butterflies seen flittering about cabbage are almost invariably of this species.
There are several kinds of yellowish butterflies of about the same size ..."
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