They did a moonlight flit. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
You'll see my name flit by at 0:40 during the first installment. From Wordnik.com. [Writing Advice from 1916—Part III] Reference
These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" - that is, run blurringly fast. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" -- that is, run blurringly fast. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Looking at Chloe as he spoke he saw a strange expression flit across her face. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
He glanced at me, and I thought I saw a pleased expression flit across his face. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
But then I watch Vera dance and see that transported but yet wise expression flit across her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Cookie Club] Reference
Was it fancy, or did a new expression flit over John’s face at her words? — a kind of hope look out of his eyes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
A close observer might have seen an uneasy expression flit across more than one face, darken more than one pair of eyes. From Wordnik.com. [In Kings' Byways] Reference
A captive free is a regular wild bird: once given a chance to flit, that is enough -- you can never get hold of him again. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference
She had seen a faintly doubtful expression flit rapidly across his face, and noticed that Mr. Crayford was already surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
He could not afford to "flit," even though he did find work somewhere else. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
OH, and I also "flit" through favorite books at times... re-read favorite passages or follow a favorite thread. From Wordnik.com. [Flitting] Reference
So the gipsies sullenly watched while the ground officer chalked their doors in token that they must "flit" at the next term. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
A hand with his waggon and oxen to "flit" the families to their various locations. From Wordnik.com. [The Settler and the Savage] Reference
With glad voices the birds as they flit to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Someone else's worth of say overheard as you flit by. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyme and Reason Volume Two] Reference
Tiny pleasure boats flit beside lumbering cruise ships. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey Turns Focus To Tanker-Clogged Strait] Reference
Little black bats flit and swoop about in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Germans could flit and apparently disappear into thin air. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Flashes of images flit rapidly in front of my mind's eye. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Writing] Reference
Once in a while a story does flit across my mental horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930] Reference
It is evening, and thin fleecy clouds flit along the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
She and her mother had to flit so often -- suddenly, noiselessly. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
They flit to and fro, with something like sorrow upon their dark brows. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Periwinkle dragonflies flit around him as he walks through thigh-high grass. From Wordnik.com. [BP, Feds Comb Wetlands To Assess Spill Damage] Reference
Silent, inscrutable, they flit through the American scene, alien to the last. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
This is the kind of thing that, flit catches on, can be politically devastating. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Job Opening] Reference
The Sun and the Sea are not given to me, nor joys like yours as you flit together. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
They hurried as ghosts flit when whirlwinds are blowing and vampires hunting at midnight. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
Certain fishes and certain reptiles can also flit and take very prolonged jumps in the air. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Madeline continued to flit from picture to statuette, questioning with much apparent interest. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Even stranger thoughts than these flit through the mind as we hesitate, and touch the bell timidly. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
We provide moral support just in case our companion wants some advice (even flit is usually ignored). From Wordnik.com. [A New Sales Incentive] Reference
I wouldn't enjoy my job like I do flit wasn't for how much fun Steve and I have brainstorming things. From Wordnik.com. [How We Did It] Reference
The brand-new CEO of Novell, the network company known as a sleeping giant, will be a major player flit stirs. From Wordnik.com. [The Century Club] Reference
Krueger was the first student to die at MIT from alcohol poisoning, but flit could happen here, it can happen anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [A Hard Lesson To Learn] Reference
He also says B of A, Bank One, Janus and Strong allowed the hedge fund to flit in and out of their funds at speeds not normally permitted. From Wordnik.com. [Money: Trading Traitors?] Reference
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