Flapping

Examples

• The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Without her market-basket, which is a sort of wicker well with two flapping lids, she never stirs abroad. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a solemn pause--a shout--a flapping of wings--a faint click. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He wore a flapping broad-brimmed traveller's hat, and under it a handkerchief tied over his head in the manner of a cap: so that he showed no hair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Each wore a large, flapping hat, a brown linen pouch slung over one shoulder, and carried a long staff. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What went on there, Meg could not see, but shrieks of laughter were heard, followed by the murmur of voices and a great flapping of newspapers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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