Flopping, until she comes to gaze, outside the window of one so alone in a crowd that her four hall-bedroom walls are closing in upon her.

He was not much of a rider, and he went bouncing up and down, with his swallow-tails flopping in the air.

There it is!down!not flopping or falling, but all in the way of business, gliding unperturbed.

Flopping and crawling like a crippled chicken, he got out of sight below.

There were half a dozen or so of the Temple Camp boats with fellows in them, flopping around near the old cove.

"Only a couple of nights ago I was flopping around like this with Bert Winton and now he's gonehe was a hero, that's sureand you

Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten Dass ich so traurig bin she sang happily, studying her gestures with care and cheerfully flopping her tail.

Then something was struck and tossed aside as a bull might toss a doga dark shape whirling and flopping hideously; and an agonized screaming made the girl cower, sick with horror, and cover her ears with her hands.

She reeled, but somebody caught her up and bore her swiftly from the room, leaving two who fought together like beasts on the floor, locked in each other's arms, rolling and squirming, rearing and flopping....

The animal broke into a gallop that set Gaspar jolting in the seat, with wildly flopping elbows.

A large centipede would come out and take a hurried turn round the Governor's seat; or a bat would settle in broad daylight in the curate's hood; or one had to turn away one's eyes lest they should beholdnot vanity, butthe magnificent head of a Cabbage-palm just outside the opposite window, with the black vultures trying to sit on the footstalks in a high wind, and slipping down, and flopping up again, half the service through.

"And thenafter I had fed youyou were going to kill me, my dear Jean," laughed Howland, flopping a huge caribou steak on the naked top of the sheet-iron stove.

There she was flopping on the music-stool, with Monsieur Dubois kneeling by her, looking cross and reproachful, and just like the villain in the pantomimes.

A hinge, butyou didn't want the top just flopping around.

There was a dull report and at the same moment something shot up from the English trenches and, very clear against the western sky, came flopping over and over toward us like a bottle thrown over a barn.

And with his odd eyes, and one ear cocked forward, and the other flopping over backward, Squinty looked so funny that the farmer had to laugh out loud.

"And does it mean having adventures?" asked Squinty, flopping his ears backward and forward.

We can't risk my darned ankle's flopping.

Then Perris, at the very door of the hut, dropped the flopping saddle to the ground and the foreman saw that no holster swung at the hip of his man.

and then we met a little solitary craft; countless water-fowl were scattered about on the surface of the stream; a school of mullet was usually jumping into the air; an alligator might sometimes be seen steadily swimming across the river, with only his nose and back exposed; and nearly always, either to the right or to the left, going north or going south, were seven pelicans, slowly flopping through the air.

Having made up his mind, at last, that the two things must be separated, he kneeled down upon his flopping prize and proceeded meditatively to extract the hook.

Not many of them, but they came flopping about the dead bodies, and the living, with hungry beaks.

She came straight to him in spite of all the flopping trappings.

Open the doors right and left and you find it at work like reason, breaking oil-cake, grinding corn for the fat stock, turning the grindstone, pitching, pounding, paring, rubbing, grabbing, and twisting, threshing, wrestling, chopping, flopping, and hopping, after the manner of "The Waters of Lodore.

With Moll's great ears flopping solemnly to herald his approach, Jerry rode up, perfectly aware that he brought a murmur of curiosity from those who saw his coming.