...Bands of crows, at the sound of his footsteps, rose up, lazily flapping their wings, but returning soon to blacken the earth, surfeited but not satisfied, having lost all fear of mankind...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...A grim silence reigned in this thickly-peopled camp; only the crackling of the torches broke that silence now and then, or the flapping of canvas in the wintry gale...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The elephant then threw up its head, and with the ears flapping forward it raised its trunk for an instant, and then slowly but easily ascended the steep bank and retreated...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...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」
...Presently the old black cabin loomed before her with its wide flapping door...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
..."Yes, away with her!" echoed the Bat, flapping his leathery wings...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...As it saw them approach, it left off flapping its wings, turned itself upon its back, and struck at them savagely with its powerful talons...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
...The mother circled about for a few moments in a puzzled sortof way, watching the young fishermen flapping up the slope to theirnest...
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」
...If there are a number of young kids together, the birds unite their forces and with great noise and flapping of wings succeed in separating the weakest and killing it...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
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