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Meanings of flit away in English

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Usage of flit away in English
1
I looked up, saw one shape flit away and disappear into the sky.
John Dies at the End
2
And with the printer's boy did the whole cortege of ghosts flit away, invisible?
Roundabout Papers
3
Those same blue eyes that used to meet mine and then flit away at school.
Mockingjay
4
He strove to remember Yusuf's words, but they seemed to flit away from his memory.
The Days of Mohammed
5
The figures flit away noiselessly through the window and disappear].
Overruled
6
The brutal blow had made her freshness and her marvelous youth flit away with doleful suddenness.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
7
Life flit away, down to the dark regions.
Helen of troy
8
One is a flower, butterflies come round, and when they find no honey, flit away elsewhere.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
9
Her eyes flit away from mine.
Insurgent
10
Then, at the first breath of the Frost King, they flit away and leave us so still and quiet.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
11
How instantaneously did all dreariness and heaviness of the earth's spirit flit away before one smile of the beneficent sun!
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
12
Mark yourself, lady, and now that you are no longer forbidden, but come with a price-watchfor him to flit away!
Helen of troy
13
We shall see them drop from their roosts as the sky darkens and flit away in search of food, Jesus said.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story
14
Even when she did, her eyes sought to flit away, to land like sparrows upon those monoliths that formed the runewall.
The Lair of Bones
15
Oh, that like the tender bird, that hops before me in my path, I could flit away along the trackless air!
Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
16
You flit in like, and flit away again as if you was a butterfly, I think sometimes when I'm sitting here alone.
Robin
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