He seemed to remember something else about Midsummer, something which stirred a brief flutter of pleasure, but it faded even as he struggled to grasp it.

The flue filled with a brief flutter, then a rattle.

All was silent within but for a brief rattling flutter, suggestive of a Venetian blind being noisily and rapidly drawn up.

Detective Fred Vasquez, whose face was splattered with spit as protesters confronted him at 34th Street, stood stone still except for a brief flutter of blinks.

Outside in the tecoma a bird was gassing around, talking to himself in low chirps, with an occasional brief flutter of wings.

He spotted the brief flutter of material on the fence several feet away from the gate and thrust open the van's side doors, clambering out.

There was a brief flutter as the tightly packed chute spread itself in the air and the lines stretched out fully.

There had been a brief flutter in the operant community about her at the time, but the little girl had stayed out of the limelight since then.

There was a brief flutter of breathing behind the watchful black masks, but no word was uttered.

He was aware of Mandy close at his side, the others behind him, and felt the brief flutters in his stomach subsiding.