Which preposition to use with flapped
Later, having satisfied our appetites somewhat, we began to talk, laying our plans for the morrow; then, after a smoke, we closed the flap of the tent, and prepared to turn in.
The wild geese on the bushy jujube-trees Attempt to settle and are ill at ease; Suh-suh their wings go flapping in the breeze.
An old sunbonnet flapped about her red, wrinkled face, her hands, red and wrinkled also, trembled when we inquired after the wizard and his works.
The gable-end of the cottage was stained with wet, and the eavesdroppings flapped against the wall.
Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
In life, Samuel Pepys walked gravely in majestical robe with full-bottomed wig and with ceremonial lace flapping at his wrists.
Trim off the flap from a fine loin of lamb, aid cut it into chops about 3/4 inch in thickness.
And like the wind-blown trees Pascal stood firm, his garments flapping like banners, his beard and hair blown about and lashed by the storm.
"Ugh!" "Go to it!" said the proprietor, who wore a black flap over
"Reckon I do, honey," said the Boy, his feet still flying and flapping on the hard earthen floor.
He stands erect, his shroud flapping behind him in billowy folds.
"I let the young man cut the flap into small pieces and drop them one by one as we drove through dark little streets.
But the mate takes to swearing (it would have turned a parson faint to hear him), and Kent shoots away up,the great mast swinging like a pendulum to and fro, and the reef-points snapping, and the blocks creaking, and the sails flapping to that extent as you wouldn't consider possible unless you'd been before the mast yourself.
God's wrath for Paris, thy son, that he died not long ago: Who sold for his evil love Troy and the towers thereof: Therefore the dead men lie Naked, beneath the eye Of Pallas, and vultures croak And flap for joy:
This is made of the thickest and softest reindeerskin, ornamented around the bottom with silk embroidery, trimmed at the sleeves and neck with glossy beaver, and furnished with a square flap under the chin, to be held up over the nose, and a hood behind the neck, to be drawn over the head in bad weather.
Our last recollection of Pindi was a vision of the faithful Ayata, paid, tipped, and provided with a flaming "chit," flapping along the road in the bright moonlight, with all his worldly possessions, en route for Abbotabad and home.
All eyes stared out watchfully, Sam's shirt flapping above us, and both Watkins and Schmitt straining their muscles to hold the plunging quarter-boat against the force of the wind.
As for the shirt, the sleeves were inches too short, and the unbuttoned cuffs flapped around the burly forearms.
A blue crane lazily flapped across the valley.
A soft white thing flapped through the snow and struck Pierre in the face, so that he staggered and almost lost his balance.
The main portion of the baron was in the darkening April woods, but his perpendicular soles stood behind the flap within the lodge.
" They did so just as the crackling twigs startled some dusky shapes that flapped among the trees.
A fat and waistless Indian woman appeared in the tent flap as the three approached the light.
To tell the truth, I hate to see a cavalry man walk, and I hold that just as he is the most gallant thing upon earth when he has his saddle-flaps between his knees, so he is the most clumsy when he has to loop up his sabre and his sabre-tasche in one hand and turn in his toes for fear of catching the rowels of his spurs.
Flapping by way of cleaning is only admissible in the case of pictures, or anything made of paper.