He'd give young Mr. Flop-Ears a run for his money.

The flop-eared boy screamed with laughter.

Maybe you think it's easy to flop flapjacksI should worry.

Why don't you let it hang in a curl, as you used to?" "I told you why yesterday,because that Burr girl has made me sick of curls, with that great black flop of hers stringing down her back.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

Why, many a morning I have spoke light and happy words of cheer to him over the 'phone with a tongue as thick as a board-walk and the inside of my nob yearning to burst loose and flop around in the cool morning air.

When the pony presently broke into a soft lope it caused the elbows of the little man to flop like wings.

"I could wreck his loveliness with one flop of my paint-brush.

"Please, Mister," she entreated, "would you flop it over 'em, just once?"

If they haven't done so, it must be because, along with their natural talent, they have this indolence and tendency to flop and not push things through.

I hesitated just a moment too long, and when I made a flop intending to bounce away, lo!

The delight of the Lakerimmers in the banquet was no greater than the misery of the Crows whose wings had been clipped, and who had been left to flop about in the dark nooks of the chapel.

"I think I will take a nap here," and lopsy-flop!

Anyhow this is how it goes: "I love to flip and flop and flap, And buzz around the room, I leap up to the ceiling high, And hit it with a boom!

Buddy and Brighteyes hit a stone, bounced up in the air, and then came down, flippity-flop!

There was a slow, heavy tread, characterised by the emphasis and deliberation of age, descending by the narrow staircase from above; and, what made the sound more singular, it was plain that the feet which produced it were perfectly bare, measuring the descent with something between a pound and a flop, very ugly to hear.

Mister Flip Flop.

The flop-eared hound, by Ellis Credle.

Mister Flip Flop.

'Lefty' and Monahan think you went flop on the job, but I know better, eh?

I was given wings, I think, but I am never to know that I have left the earth until I come flop upon it with an arrow through them.

Then they usually flop along and sail up into a tree.

"She was just as different from the Major as anything could be: a tall, pale, rangey woman, kind-hearted and good-natured as they make 'em, but with a pair of nose-grabber specks, and a way of letting her hands flop at the wrist, whilest she talked in a high gobbley-gobble style, like singin' a tuneless tune.

A camp life suited him; he could drive an ox team, cook a meal of victuals, turn a pan of flap-jacks with a flop, and possessed many other frontier accomplishments.

" "It's about time for him to flop round," replied Texas indifferently.