She had hoped that her friend Ino had at last captured the Flutterer, and that he would begin to live a settled life with her, as master of a house of his own; and now, for a pretty face, he had thrown everything to the winds, even the duty of self-preservation.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
She fancied she had put on proof-armour, unconscious that it was the turning of the inward Flutterer to steel, which supplied her cuirass and shield.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
He regarded him but as the sleek Flutterer in the sunshine of fortune.
"Lucretia, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton