A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds.

Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.

Small flitters were powered and made ready, and everything that carried manual controls was inspected and cleared for action.

The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three.

The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.

Hannah couldn't stop a flitter of panic at the thought.

He sensed Wheeler tensing, the slightest of tremors in the stillness of the ruined chapel, a flitter of irritation.

How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old.

There were two bugs flittering on either side of her.

The back of the group flittered in and out of my view, pulling me forward with only dim hopes of success.

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