He followed their flittering over the entire black range of his vision, trying to count them.

He nodded beyond me at the river and the flittering, dangerous surface that tried to rise from it.

And, coming back here, I was passed by a flittering, whispering horde of them, glancing over their shoulders in a thrilled ecstasy of panic, making for their hiding places.

Chilling eyes quickly drank in the details of the massive cavern, from the few huge effigies still standing, to the flittering, frightened shapes seeking haven in the cracks and crevices.

Nor were we troubled overmuch by the fact that the attendants who served us were invisible, and gave proof of their presence only by a sound that resembled the noise made by the flittering of great bats.

Nick Stumpf, the singer of the French Kicks, produced the band's first record, "CoCo Beware," whose muted, tasteful approach makes room for the flittering, earnest melodies of its front man, Matthew Iwanusa.

Everything he sees and hears-the pale-blue skies of Pacem, the flittering of finches in the pear orchards, the soft stroke of Vespers bells-makes emotion surge within him to the point that he has to work to hold back tears.