The way her sleeves fluttered was a reminder of the transience of things.

The old man gestured, wide sleeves fluttering.

She held out her hands, making her long sleeves flutter with a whisper of silk.

Rather, the empty sleeves now flapped and fluttered as if a gale blew for them alone, though the body of the robe was quiet.

"Allah be praised," the leader said, and the loose white sleeves of their robes fluttered in response.

Her sleeves and the fringed layers of her short black hair fluttered in the breeze.

I saw her sleeves flutter as if her arms moved, but she made no ritual gesture.

Instead of pulling it to pieces and taking the stick, she stuck it between two branches of the hedge, so that it stood looming rakishly above the may, with the tattered sleeves on its stick arms fluttering over the hedge.

She loathed their pretension, and the overblown, blushy- frilly look of them: full sleeves to flutter artistically in the wind, great floppy foolish collars . . . and, of course, the low-scooped fronts which were probably all Thorin would see if she appeared before him dressed in one.