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.

I soon heard the flapping of their mighty wings above me, and had the satisfaction of feeling one of them seize upon my piece of meat, and me with it, and rise slowly towards his nest, into which he presently dropped me.

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

He stands erect, his shroud flapping behind him in billowy folds.

"Reckon I do, honey," said the Boy, his feet still flying and flapping on the hard earthen floor.

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:

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.

Through the thick curtain which still clung to the deck, I could perceive the upper spars, already tipped with sunlight, and edges of reefed canvas flapping in the wind.

"I let the young man cut the flap into small pieces and drop them one by one as we drove through dark little streets.

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.

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.

I said that Mr. Skinner had left his window open, and it was the blind flapping against the window-pane; but when we heard that funny noise again I put my ear to the keyhole and I thought I could hear a groan.

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.

A soft white thing flapped through the snow and struck Pierre in the face, so that he staggered and almost lost his balance.

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.

I was seized with a severe shaking of the knees and a flapping at the heart, when, through the garret window, I saw the signal posts were in a bleeze, and that the French had landed.

He heard the canvas flap-flapping by Gloria's bed; above him tossing boughs scraped and creaked.