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Many of the doorways had fluted pilasters, heavily molded casings and carved43 broken pediments.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Amzi had fluted in the Schumann Quartette, devoted to chamber music, but his asthma had broken up the club, and he now rarely essayed the instrument.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana

At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre