For the lady - accompanied by red admirals, peacocks and common blues - was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre.

Great ladies fluttered fans of painted feathers, and the musicians who had entertained them wiped sweaty fingerprints from their instruments, as attendants helped bride and groom into their litters, then raised them to the level where the High Priest and his acolytes presided.

The young lady fluttered her fan before her face, impressed.

His small gray eyes rested with icy disapproval on a group nearby, where several ladies fluttered around Mr. Willoughby like bright moths about a Chinese lantern.

Expensively dressed ladies fluttered here and there amid the elegant appointments; servants in stylish livery passed to and fro with trays of wine and other spirituous liquors.

Only men sat at the green baize, although the ladies fluttered around them like bright butterflies.

Her ladies fluttered around her like billowy summer wind-roses adrift on an icy stream.

She began to see exactly how Monsieur Petit had meant her to use the thing hanging so limply from her wrist, for several ladies snapped their fans open and fluttered them in front of their faces, laughing behind the framed silk and lace.

The door had hardly closed behind him when the two demure young ladies darted out of their corner, and fluttered with joy in front of the astonished doctor.

While the queen's ladies fluttered nervously in the solar like so many blackbirds, waiting for their mistress, the queen and Rhysel were nearly finished dressing Owain.