...They moved on rapidly in silence for a few minutes when theirattention was attracted by the flapping of the wings of a birdabove them...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... There was dead silence among them, and dead silence all around, save for that monotonous tok-tok-tok of the parchment flapping in the breeze...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...No sound came from any part of the forest, except that we fancied we could hear the flapping of the elephant’s ears...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...I was advancing softly, and step by step, towards the antelopes, and was just raising my rifle to fire, when I heard something flapping the ground three or four yards before me...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Lift their flapping curtains, Mr...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...They made no attempts to escape and when thrown intothe air their wings barely opened or flapping feebly easedtheir fall or enabled them to seek repose on the stem of arotten trunk...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Startle him, and he springs into the air with a loudsquawk, flapping his broad wings and trailing his greenish-yellow legsbehind him, like the storks you see painted on Japanese fans...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
... dressing a congregation of captive eagles, all mentally ruffling their plumage and flapping their pinions, and uttering indignant screams of protest against the injustice of their lot...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...It is hard to find a fish of any variety moredelicious than a chub mackerel, caught from the yachtand placed on the broiler as soon as it quits flapping...
Harry Thom Payne 「Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast」
...Gavia began by suddenly flapping around in a big circle, slapping thewater with wing-tips and feet, and making much noise as she spatteredthe spray all about...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...But theawful fear of the depths and the lance tops of the spruces was uponthe little one; his flapping grew more wild; he fell faster andfaster...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
...Two got away safely; the other had barely spread his wingswhen a black animal leaped out of the grass for his neck and pulled himdown, flapping and croaking desperately...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...The wind was blowing directly off Point Pedro and the high mountainsbehind, and because of this was squally and uncertain, half the timebellying the canvas out, and the other half flapping it idly...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...Fifteen minutes passed, the Reindeer sinking deeper and deeper, hermainsail flapping in the calm...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
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