Soon after the May garlands the meadow orchis comes up, which is called 'dead men's hands,' and after that the 'ram's-horn' orchis, which has a twisted petal; and in the evening the bat, which they call flittermouse, appears again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

“But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

I know not if it is owl or flittermouse; I could fancy it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

"But me no buts! or depart as recreant, not by the door like a man, but up the chimney like a flittermouse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

After that he greased it with the fat of a bat or flittermouse, to see if it was not written with the sperm of a whale, which some call ambergris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

Well! (may it count to me as gain!), rather than seem to offend him I lay down in that manger, though I had no more desire to sleep than has the flittermouse in our Sussex gloamings; also I was careful to offer no money, for that is brutality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path to Rome] Reference

It’s a variant of flittermouse, an old term for a bat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Hummingbirds and Owls] Reference

As a former flimmery flittermouse who has now seen the error of her ways, I’d like to put in a word for both schools of thought – or styles of Muse: -).    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Hummingbirds and Owls] Reference

Now dim as flittermouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of Childhood] Reference

The barbastel and flittermouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Guild] Reference

Flimmer, flittermouse, flindermouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Hummingbirds and Owls] Reference