Quotes About Flap

It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look. So I fold the flap back,and write: Tumbleweeds.

A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of air— eventually capable of starting a hurricane on the other side of the planet.

I hesitate a moment. Wearing his dressing gown seems a bit cutesy. A bit Let me put on your great big manly shirt and allow the sleeves to flap endearingly around my fingers. But I have no choice.

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

Penelope slid her gloved finger under the envelope flap and nudged it open, pulling out the single sheet of paper on which she saw the fine, neat handwriting that had become so familiar to her since she'd started editing Colin's journals.

Soon the silver beach was out of sight and they could see little—the pale blue light above them scarcely penetrating the blackness. It was then that they heard the dry flap of wings over their heads and looked up.

the flap on his shirt pocket. Grumbling

flap opened on one of the tents, and a gangly figure crawled out. It was Mrs. Starch. She rose slowly, brushing herself off, her eyes blazing at the sight of Nick and Marta.

The slokum's a machine for softening the leather but 'tis a tough one, like playing tug-o-war with a crocodile. Has bladed jaws that clamp down on the leather when you feed it in. Your job is to hold the material at the other end and worry it around while the machine basically chews the hard leather soft. The trick is to leave a flap of the leather hanging down so you can pin it to the machine body with your hip. That way the jaws can't rip the leather out of your hands and send you flying.

There's a sweet sound," he said, slashing at the air. "Flap closer, Snow. I mean to make your feathers fly.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers, Angel chimed in, And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet.You looove me, he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,You love me this much.

I clanked open a bonnet flap and was met by an almost visible wave of heat. The Model T motor's prodigious talent for thermal radiation would always amaze me. It was as if Henry had made a terrible miscalculation and perfected the external combustion engine.

The designs used by the Indians were partly geometric and were usually based on dreams of the owner. Often the owner's totem was painted on the door flap.

small dish of honey had been provided with his toast, and he was dipping a dubious finger into it, wondering whether he ought to try dabbing it into his eye, when at last the flap opened again and his brother was with him. "Did

When have you looked? said Sophie. Oh, how your ears flap and your long nose twitches, Howl croaked.

Oh, how your ears flap and your long nose twitches!

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

She heard the sound of one tremendous flap and looked up in time to see the man who'd put a hole in the roof of her stable hovering in the air over her castle looking down at her. For the space of a breath, Sam's heart completely stopped beating in her chest at what she saw in the bright light of day. Those were wings. They were real. And then she fainted dead away in her garden.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.