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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Flutter
 
  Fluttered like a dead leaf in a blast.
            —Philip James Bailey		  1
  Fluttered like a winged asp.
            —Philip James Bailey		  2
  Fluttering like a raven wounded.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  3
  Its meaning flutters in me like a flame under my own breath.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Fluttering, like dumb creatures before storms.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  5
  Fluttered like a tame bird, in among its forest brothers far too strong for it.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  6
  Flutter … like sparrows round an owl.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  7
  Flutters up and down like a butterfly in a garden.
            —Samuel Butler		  8
  Flutters as wing’d with joy.
            —Lord Byron		  9
  Flutters as an unreal shadow.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  10
  Flutterings as in a slumbering aviary.
            —Alphonse Daudet		  11
  Fluttered like a bird with broken wings.
            —Charles Dickens		  12
  Flutter like snowflakes.
            —Hamlin Garland		  13
  Fluttering like a piece of gold leaf.
            —William Hazlitt		  14
  Fluttered noiseless as a flame.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  15
  Fluttering like new-mown hay.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  16
  Flutter like a flickering, dying lamp.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  17
  Fluttered like a lark.
            —Gerald Massey		  18
  Flutters like a bird fresh caught.
            —Mary Russell Mitford		  19
  Fluttering like a prisoned bird.
            —Lewis Morris		  20
Flutters like a flower
Along the glory of the hills.
            —John Payne		  21
  Made my own heart flutter as a bird that beats for freedom at the bars that prison it.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  22
          Gauzy wings fluttered by
Like the ghost of a daisy dropped out of the sky.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  23
  Fluttering like pigeons.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  24
  I flutter like a child after her mother.
            —Sappho		  25
  Fluttered, like a vision.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  26
Like snow-coloured petals
Of blossoms that flee
From storm that unsettles
The flower as the tree
They flutter.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  27
  Fluttering like spent fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  28
        Fluttered like a callow lark,
With dim fore-feeling of the azure free,
Sustaining wing and strength of songful glee.
            —Bayard Taylor		  29
  Like an angel’s pinion, fluttereth.
            —John T. Trowbridge		  30
 
 
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