And without waiting to see how his suggestion was received, he caught up the saucepan, lifted the flap, and vanished.

He drew the flap aside a little, and raised his voice.

Nicholas was holding up the tent-flap.

In performing it, they fill their mouths with water, which they drive backwards with a force so great as to open the large flap, to allow it to escape behind.

He was bidden to come in, and when he raised the flap he saw her sitting with her hands clasped loosely and resting upon her knees.

"She has kept house for me!" He pointed out Lou's tent to his companion and the big man, with a single low word of warning, threw open the flap of the tent and strode in.

Before he got across the tent Maudie had pushed the flap aside and put in her head.

Quickly he dropped the flap and rustled it from the outside.

"That's the wind rising," whispered the clergyman, and pulled the flap open as far as it would go.

Or what a politician the younger brother might become, were he to exhibit in the arena of public life the agility in turning flip-flaps, and reversing himself by unexpectedly standing on his head, which he displays in the CIRCUS ring.

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.

" He rose to his feet, tying the flap of his caribou skin coat about his throat.

As the Boy buttoned the fur-lined flap down over their heads he felt angrier with the Colonel than he had ever been before.

"Ugh!" "Go to it!" said the proprietor, who wore a black flap over

I see his fiery eagle eyes, and I hear the flap of his heavy wing; and I know that he hovers here to suck the blood of Terah, with all his murderous Weettakos around him!

I slit up the flap and pulled out a folded sheet of foolscap from inside.

She tore the flap and withdrew a single sheet of notepaper penned in a hand she knew too well.

She saw the wind snatch at it and set it scraping back and forth when he let it dangle at rope's end; she saw King's coat flap in the wind.

Kneeling he watched the flaps of the tent.

He opened the lady's bag and cut out a leather flap that had her name and address stamped on it.

Step by step Sandy approached, and at last he reached the flap of the tent.

He tore a three-cornered flap in the cover, looked at the brightly coloured contents, replaced the flap and returned the parcel, his chin a little higher.

The little gleam of light thrown out as the wind stirred the smouldering embers served to reveal the dirty flap of a tent set up at the edge of a grove of saplings, and a horse, standing with lowered head, sharply outlined against the canvas.

The other guards laughed and checked their laughter with a suddenness which made Jack's eyes leave the dancing shadow and seek questioningly the closed tent flaps.

The wolf-dog shoved the flap aside again, and plucking courage at the quiet, wormed forward on his belly.