"Flaps" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occasion to meet her in her rides he merely bowed deeply, even to the flaps of his saddle and, with a melancholy ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... barnacle on wherever required. In the stereotyped pattern the blinds are apt to be troublesome. If outside, they clash against each other and refuse to be fastened open; while inside they are a mighty maze of folds, flaps, brass buts, and rolling slats. In the first case, wide piers between the sash are necessary; in the second, boxings for the blinds. Both require ample room, which, fortunately, you have. Sixthly, and in conclusion, there is no one ...
— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner
... "We unanimously do," and as I said it I got to thinkin' of how when I was a boy I used to walk on my hands, and stand on my head, and throw flip-flaps, or stop to knock the head off some passin' kid—if I was able—anythin' so a red-ginghamed, pop-eyed little girl sittin' on the door-step across the street would take notice. "We do those things when we are ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... pieces of it immediately after it was brought to land. The head was formed like the concave of a crescent, with an eye near the end of each point, and a small orifice just behind each eye, like an ear. In breadth, it measured fourteen feet and a half, that is, from the extremities of the fins, or flaps, which resembled those of a skate; in length, seven feet in the body, and six feet in ...
— A Voyage Round the World, Vol. I (of ?) • James Holman
... the jibs collapse And belly and tug at the groaning cleats, The spanker slats, and the mainsail flaps, And thunders the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
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