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  • O Maria, in what a flutteration is your poor foolish Charlotte!

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

  • No crowding into the hired hack, with all the delightful care about tumbling dresses, and getting there in good order; and no coming home together to our little cozy cottage, in a pleasant, excited state of "flutteration," and sitting down to talk it all over, and "Was n't it nice?" and "Did I look as well as anybody?" and "Of course you did to me," and all that nonsense.

    Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • No crowding into the hired hack, with all the delightful care about tumbling dresses, and getting there in good order; and no coming home together to our little cozy cottage, in a pleasant, excited state of "flutteration," and sitting down to talk it all over, and "Was n't it nice?" and "Did

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • I was just sitting at the stop when I noticed a lot of flutteration in bushes across the tracks.

    Hawk Meditation 2005

  • I was just sitting at the stop when I noticed a lot of flutteration in bushes across the tracks.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • I cannot but say that I feel a little flutteration, as the girls call it, at the approach of this momentous interview.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

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