Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaffing
Literary usage of Flaffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... filled with ducks' legs and necks as full as lie could gripe, the wounded
birds flaffing and flapping, and s:n¡_-- gling round him, ..."
2. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1889)
"I hope she will be a small acquisition to Jane, who has little sympathy with the
flaffing ways of the Cockney women, and does not esteem many of them much. ..."
3. The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane (1841)
"... observed that when the lords were mounted on their horses, a swan did n« over
their heads, from the north towards the south, flaffing with her wings, ..."
4. Pastels in Prose by William Dean Howells (1890)
"... the lunar water-rose and the snowy lotus. Yonder, against the orange horizon,
stand the already darkened forests, towards which fly the flaffing cranes. ..."
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