He returned somewhat despondently to his river again—his faithful, steady-going old river, which never packed up, flitted, or went into winter quarters.
Just as Katie succeeded in scoring the first goal of the match, and the Gryffindor end of the field went wild, he saw it—the Snitch was close to the ground, flitting near one of the barriers.
They flitted along corridors striped with bars of moonlight from the high windows. At every turn Harry expected to run into Filch or Mrs. Norris, but they were lucky.
The author is fascinated by the ordinary. He flits from the diaries of a suburban housewife to those of the prime minister, and back to provincial obscurity with the letter pages of the regional press.
Not a single headmaster or headmistress remained to see him; all, it seemed, had flitted away, charging through the paintings that lined the castle so that they could have a clear view of what was going on.
An image flitted through my mind: she and I sitting in the garden every morning after breakfast, she wearing her bikini, always urging me to walk downstairs and join her for a swim.
For now, though, she says she's looking differently at the small, passerine birds that flit by her windows and dominate the tree branches in her backyard in Ontario.
You have done unconscionable things for which I can never forgive you, and no amount of flitting about in my peripheral vision is going to change that.