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Meanings of flit across in English

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Usage of flit across in English
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Then not the shadow of a smile should flit across the lips.
Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
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Did I see a shadow of pain flit across the flickering eyes?
The Moon Pool
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Colby saw simultaneous shadows flit across the faces of Holton and Thornhill.
The wrong venus
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The lights and shadows that flit across it; its internal vicissitudes.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
5
Little folk, dressed all in green, would flit across the moor.
Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
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Now and then reminiscences of our lower world would flit across their brains.
All Around the Moon
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He saw a look of surprise flit across her face as he passed.
Graustark
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A sudden expression of sadness would often flit across his features.
Young Lion of the Woods / Or, A Story of Early Colonial Days
9
She was sure she detected a look of surprise flit across his face.
The Shelters of Stone
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Philip, seeing the shadow of apprehension flit across his cousin's face, quickly explained.
Hood
11
These are mere chimeras, idle fancies that flit across my brain!
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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And now the green and bronze shades flit across it.
The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
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Gauze-winged butterflies flit across the channel, occasionally in great numbers.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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We watch the few remaining images flit across the screen.
Altered
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Their terrible ravens shall flit across our prospect no more.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
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Pierre noticed a shade of sadness flit across her face.
The Story of Silk
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Flit across through the time
Flit across across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common