Joe looked up and for a fleeting moment Adam saw something flit across his eyes.
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
Letters should be sent to Sam who has just returned after the firm he was closing for did a moonlight flit.
He was a toddler when his family pioneered the big flit from central Glasgow into Castlemilk.
He also said the Indian man owed money to the tax man and had done a midnight flit.
A stand of yellow mariposa lilies explodes below, while white Pieris butterflies flit just out of reach.
Plant hoppers are similar to leaf hoppers in that they can rapidly flit from plant to plant and away again when disturbed.
Larger forest birds such as the grey kingbird, the streaked saltator, or the tropical mockingbird flit among the taller tree branches.
To all who flit by here, I wish y'all a year filled with love, health, happiness, success and peace!
They often also find it difficult to finish what they have started, and tend to flit from one project to another as the fancy takes them.
I decided I, too, would flit among the islands in search of cheap lodgings, wonderful food, clean, unspoilt beaches and, most important, crumpet.
Yellow butterflies flit from golden lantana bushes to the pink and white oleander blooms.
Cal was given a room where the previous occupant had performed a mysterious moonlit flit.
But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
A cluster of old nuns flit around Byzantine style interiors while a bitter monk shows me his pet dog and cat aptly called Billy and Monica.
Snow buntings and Lapland longspurs flit silently among the lichen-covered boulders, stuffing their beaks with mosquitoes and gnats.
They study a job from five different angles before tackling it or they flit from one task to another as their attention span wavers.
You can't just flit in and out with your batting and bowling to play well at Test level.
Large fish such as groupers and moray eels can often be found resting next to a colony of shrimps, which flit out and crawl over the fish's skin while cleaning it.
Then they did a flit, leaving a whole pile of rent and bills unpaid.
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From coastal erosion, to circle theorems, to salt crystalisation: we flit between subjects.
Every minute, barely visible figures flit by, on their way to tell their family back home that have reached Izmir.
However long it may take until the gigabytes flit through the net, we are fully motivated and will do our utmost to meet your needs and wishes.
Utterly convincing, their letters flit between subjects as various as love, communism, neology and friendship.
Crowds have swelled to capacity, increasing pressure for the club to move to a 55,000-ground at the waterfront, a flit which remains uncertain for financial reasons.
A wide variety of birds flit through the trees and there is evidence of larger animals like moose and bear.
Flower-like gemstones flit, flutter and flash this way and that, caressing the skin with teasing impertinence.
Between his hectic filming and touring schedule, Tino somehow managed to find time to flit in and out of the recording studio.
Next week, next month, soon, it will do a moonlight flit and vanish, returning to another fence far away.
She screamed so hard we did a midnight flit to the doctor one night.
An unpowered glider can soar through the sky, a helicopter can hover and flit around, and a cannon can even shoot a circus performer in a parabola through the air.
The gate was just the first step, there are fence rails to be nailed and sheep netting to be pinned before the boys can pack up their belongings and flit.
It could be a fantastic, historical week for the club, or it could be one that sees our hopes flit out the window.
Whether, at the end of all this, Michael Alcock regretted that moonlight flit from Birmingham in 1755, we will never know.
He said they must do a moonlight flit to Dorneywood, his ministerial retreat in Buckinghamshire, because the house would be surrounded by paparazzi in the morning.
Buy Now 4. Sussi Optimal Folding Bed: £99, John Lewis A smaller and lighter budget guest bed, this one doesn't have a headboard so is best against a wall if you don't want your pillows to do a moonlight flit.
This time we are back in 1941 and flit from Berlin to Prague.
Nevertheless, he finds time to flit off overseas to wave the flag a bit and start undoing the damage done by his cretinous predecessor, and the best you can do by way of considered commentary on the trip is Newt Gingrich.
The staircases move, even the pictures move, while the whomping willow whomps away in the school grounds and ghosts flit down the school corridors.
A child will notice if you flit between it and your assignment and, as though you were turning a light on and off, find it disorienting and upsetting.
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As the story goes nana and grandad, Lizzie and Billie Graham, moved to Bulmer Street after doing a moonlight flit from Haverton Hil.
In mid-summer, Marbled White butterflies flit amongst the tall grasses and green tiger beetles hunt in areas of bare ground.
Here in Germany I can flit between main hubs, but I pay a significant premium to use that service and then find that, if I want to get out to a smaller town, the service is sometimes quite dire.
What a contrast to the images that flit across our television screens.
Le Ballon is a touching, entertaining animated clip that illustrates the ideas that might flit across the mind of a child as she sees her balloon fly away and imagines the fantastic journey ahead of it.
Thanks to PIKA, you no longer have to search book lists, rummage through library shelves, or flit here and there to find a book on a specific topic.
That is the advice of the slowness devotee: give time more time, allow each activity time in which to flourish, don't flit continually from one activity to another.
We don't want to flit blindly from one job to another, but neither do we wish to flutter like moths around the first bright light that catches our attention.
Deep inside the caves, albino fish swim and butterfly bats flit.
Zirconia powder is purified by chemical reaction of solution flit.
Flowers flit around, trees bend down to give their most beautiful fruits to us and the air we breathe is so sweet in this garden full of sweetness that it is intoxicating.
A way of creating un-intrusive animations is to limit the amount of movements and to insert longer waiting times so that they don't flit about constantly.
On his settling down permanently in this country Captain Tessier became a naturalised British subject and always took as great an interest in its affairs and wellbeing as flit had been his native land.
The great moonlight flit from Marrakech to Tangier was in motion.
The cave is inhabited by hundreds of swiftlets that flit about in the dim light and nest in the darkness of the cave's upper reaches.
By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.
Boda-boda mopeds flit in and out of the traffic, their female passengers riding side-saddle.
One day, Ferguson will surprise us all by performing a moonlight flit from the Theatre of Dreams.
But Jean overhears, and jumps to conclusions, namely that the back-on couple are planning a moonlight flit from Albert Square.
In the wild, orange-fronted conures live in dynamic flocks where individuals flit in and out, so each parrot encounters many different individuals every day.
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It won't be easy, but you also need to think hard about your escape plan, even your moonlight flit, however much you thereby confirm his worst fears.
But as she pulls up in her flash new sports car on Friday and offers him the chance to do a moonlight flit with her, will Dennis be Thelma to Glo's Louise?

How they flit about, imps of evil as they are, and sound their horn of defiance in our ear!
Silent, inscrutable, they flit through the American scene, alien to the last.
If a woodlark stirred, he saw the shadow of its wing flit from frond to frond.
Do visions of plump cabbages and brilliant dahlias flit through their molluscous minds?
Always, from dawn to dewfall, the world about little Chebeague is full of swallows that dart and soar and flit like shadows.
Was it the tricksy play of the moon among the clouds, or did a shade of disappointment flit across her face?
The hunchback watched the yellow disk turn and flit and wabble on its base and flutter down with its tingling reverberations.
If disturbed, or suddenly frightened, the ousel will flit up or down the stream.
But Darrow's face was unstirred save by the flit of his half-amused smile.
The watchers from the plain below could see them flit from rock to rock until their figures stood out against the skyline.
She liked to flit out after him when he was going to church at night.
You have the wisdom that grasps the substance and lets the shadows flit.
I flit from court to court at my own free will and pleasure, and am always welcome.
As he went out into the rigorous night, I saw the lonely figure flit away before us.
With yours so nearly ready to flit, no change in size is indicated now.
It was so still that the flit of a wing was almost startling.
He watched the ambulance flit off as he waited for the spaceport Patrol.
Now he saw one or two flit across the sunny glade in advance.
But the sopranos who did it flit across this planet like angels.
She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
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No longer shall her little silken figure flit up and down your quiet staircases, no more deck out your silent rooms with flowers, humming the while some happy little song.

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