flitted
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One would require to go further back still to appreciate the spirit of "Skeldon Haughs, or the Sow is Flitted."
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
Flitted that fond ideal world, And to the shore in tumult tost The realms of fairy bliss were lost.
From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir
Around the domes, and temples of the gods Loud howl'd the midnight dogs; the silent shades Flitted along; and tremblings shook the town.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
Flitted the butterfly All day dittering over my head.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
In wild and broken eddies whirled, Flitted that fond ideal world, And, to the shore in tumult tost, The realms of fairy bliss were lost.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir