Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Flutter
Fluttered like a dead leaf in a blast.
—Philip James Bailey
Fluttered like a winged asp.
—Philip James Bailey
Fluttering like a raven wounded.
—R. D. Blackmore
Its meaning flutters in me like a flame under my own breath.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fluttering, like dumb creatures before storms.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fluttered like a tame bird, in among its forest brothers far too strong for it.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Flutter … like sparrows round an owl.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Flutters up and down like a butterfly in a garden.
—Samuel Butler
Flutters as wing’d with joy.
—Lord Byron
Flutters as an unreal shadow.
—Thomas Carlyle
Flutterings as in a slumbering aviary.
—Alphonse Daudet
Fluttered like a bird with broken wings.
—Charles Dickens
Flutter like snowflakes.
—Hamlin Garland
Fluttering like a piece of gold leaf.
—William Hazlitt
Fluttered noiseless as a flame.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland
Fluttering like new-mown hay.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Flutter like a flickering, dying lamp.
—Sigmund Krasinski
Fluttered like a lark.
—Gerald Massey
Flutters like a bird fresh caught.
—Mary Russell Mitford
Fluttering like a prisoned bird.
—Lewis Morris
Flutters like a flower
Along the glory of the hills.
—John Payne
Made my own heart flutter as a bird that beats for freedom at the bars that prison it.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Gauzy wings fluttered by
Like the ghost of a daisy dropped out of the sky.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Fluttering like pigeons.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
I flutter like a child after her mother.
—Sappho
Fluttered, like a vision.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Like snow-coloured petals
Of blossoms that flee
From storm that unsettles
The flower as the tree
They flutter.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fluttering like spent fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fluttered like a callow lark,
With dim fore-feeling of the azure free,
Sustaining wing and strength of songful glee.
—Bayard Taylor
Like an angel’s pinion, fluttereth.
—John T. Trowbridge