Sentence examples for a flutter of wings from inspiring English sources

Once, hearing a flutter of wings, Tuca said: "Vultures.

With a flutter of wings, he was gone.

With a flutter of wings, the raven flew from his perch and landed on her left shoulder.

"I, too, believe that I heard such a fluttering of wings while I wrote that book.

These books were a fluttering of wings for the aged domestic duckling, soon to swan out in eight novels written over the next 20 years and culminating in four masterpieces: "Innocence," "The Beginning of Spring," "Gate of Angels" and "The Blue Flower".

The male skilfully weaves grass strips to form a nest, which he shows off to females with a flutter of his wings.

But the Audubon Center is more accurately another link, along with the planned Cornfield and Taylor Yards parks, in a lengthening green chain bringing the flutter of wings, the rustle of leaves and broad swaths of grass to the urban heart of Los Angeles.

Jarvis, Mello, and colleagues soon found themselves immersed in a fluttering cloud of wings at a nature reserve in EspÌrito Santo, Brazil, where for six decades hummingbirds had been lured with feeders.

Moments later, a hundred doves were released from somewhere around the bagpipers' feet, with a sudden fluttering of wings.

Drawn back upstairs by the telltale flutter of wings, there he sat in exactly the same location on upper part of the sill.

Giovanni di Paolo was barely 24 when he painted the so-called "Branchini Madonna," a wonderfully weird confection of big, doll-like figures framed within a furious flutter of cherubim wings.