Слово "flutter". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.

Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots, and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.

As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.

The beauty smiled, flashing her teeth, and her lush eyelashes fluttered.

When he had travelled a few minutes it would begin a remorseless thump, thump, thump, and then leap up and away in a painful flutter of beats that choked him and made him go faint and dizzy.

As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.

"No, no, no!" Lebedev roused himself, all in a flutter.

Tiring of being merely an onlooker, he ran up to Nevada, where the new gold-mining boom was fairly started—"just to try a flutter," as he phrased it to himself.

but it tends to be in rather darling, obscure psychological flutters.

"I'm going you one flutter to see whether you-all drink with me or we-all drink with you."

The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.

He looked outside, and half a dozen snow-birds fluttered across his field of vision. He started to get up, then looked back to his mate again, and settled down and dozed.

As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and fluttered off among the others.

Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing.

It'll be all right in a second.' She spoke as though her heart were fluttering.

His eyes fluttered and went shut. His chin fell forward on his chest.

On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.

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.

He might just as well have a flutter with his money instead.

They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.

"We are going down now," she fluttered. "Oh, dear! I am sure I shall never manage it, but the guide says the way down is quite a different route and much easier.

The accidental discovery, just made, that the proprietor of the Temperance Tavern kept liquor on his premises, scarcely fluttered the public pulse, tremendous as the fact was.

A groan cut itself off in his throat as he jammed the gas pedal to the floor and the small station wagon leaped ahead, the speedometer needle fluttering, then moving steadily past the sixty- five mark, the seventy, the seventy- five.