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is fluting

  • present progressive
    of flute (3rd person singular).
    flute
    noun
    a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.

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Open it at any point and there the author is, fluting a different tune but charming the same old snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

But above the tree-tops, rising, hovering, sinking, the woodlark is fluting, tender and low. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

I wonder who is fluting under that tree there, so late.

From The Bride of Fort Edward by Delia Bacon

He suddenly drops his voice to a shuddering whisper, and the next moment is fluting like a blackbird.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse

But above the tree-tops, rising, hovering, sinking, the woodlark is fluting tender and low. 

From Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Fanny E. Kingsley