The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncharted Stars]

Soriki's exultant cry brought them back to the flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

The questions from the two at the flitter came together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Raf fastened on the helmet and started away from the flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

He hurried through and twisted into the flitter driver's cage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

I will respond with standard flitter yellows at the same spacing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

When he came back to the flitter, Soriki was awake and stretching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

The framework and cage quivered and the flitter lifted up and away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Soriki had gone back to the flitter to make his report to the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

The directive would glide the flitter to the best available landing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

But which was the one that guarded the roof where the flitter rested?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Flecks of light, moving in an arc, headed towards the speeding flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

The flitter had been put through every possible test in his home world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

None of the aliens approached the flitter as the shadows began to draw in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Lablet was saying as Raf climbed into the flitter to tug loose his own roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Soriki stepped out of the flitter, the wrist camera dangling from his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

He looked to the southwest where a flitter was growing larger as it approached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Haystack] Reference

They reached the ledge where the flitter perched just as they had seen it last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

Raf, as a pilot of flitter, had always believed that he had no fear of heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Hobart dropped out of the hatch in the globe and made his way over to the flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

The alien flyer could not land here, not without coming down flat upon the flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Hume touched controls, the flitter descended slowly just above the center of the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

"We're taking the small flitter for a tour of the wilderness area tomorrow," said Diana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Haystack] Reference

The weird desolation of the landscape began to work its spell on the men in the flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Zolan stabilized the flitter to hover stationary barely a meter above the frozen methane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Zolan carefully adjusted the controls to slip the flitter away from the screening vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Their two alien passengers were out of the flitter as soon as he opened the bubble shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

           Their mothers might just leave the nest, fly out above and flitter off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny Whistled Through The Mail Slot] Reference

She took his hand as they came up the steps after seeing her father to his limousine flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Haystack] Reference

As the flitter rose and headed toward the dome Brad thought back as he weighed their chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

The flitter stood to his left, the flashing atom lamp, where the men were gathered, to his right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

It was mid-afternoon when the flitter took to the air once again, scattering the hovering globes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

Brad brought his mind back to the present as the flitter settled on the landing pad near air lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

But the lights were there -- not impinging on the flitter, or patrolling along its line of flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

With those talking fingers, he was able to make plain a question: was Raf the pilot of the flitter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

Conjured by swift phrases, they seem to flitter past as we watch, but leave indelible impressions of movement and colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan] Reference