Flaff

Out of the haze now and then, as we descended to the valley, there would come the peculiar cry of the red-deer, or the flaff of a wing, or the bleat of a goat It was maddening to be in the neighbourhood of the meal that roe, or bird, or goat would offer, and yet be unable to reach it. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

But they seemed to mock him and whistle in his very face, and at the flaff of their wings his heart grew sore. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

She whisked away into the milk-house, taking the door after her as far as it would go with a _flaff_ that brought a bowl, which had been set on its edge to dry, whirling off the dresser on to the stone floor. ❋ Unknown (1887)

He actilly sneezed for the matter of ten minutes -- he seemed half choked with the flaff and stuff, that came out with him like a cloud. ❋ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1830)

The unemployment spike is going to come on strong within a year, and there simply isn't time to flaff around with all the planning red tape and consultation processes, that if allowed to run their course will delay any new development plans for years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That it appears from an ac» count prefented to this Houie on 'the 2ift of April, 1796, that the fum of 146,9001. 1 2s. 4d. is now dutf to the general and flaff-oficers of P IT B L I C P A P E R S. his iriajefty's forces for the years ❋ Unknown (1797)

THE committee eftabiiflicd this day at St. Pierre by me, b hereby authorifcd to give, when required fo to do by the flaff officers of the army, and efpecially by Colonel Myers and Major ❋ Unknown (1795)

When he was going to rife he fupported himfelf upon a flaff, which unfortu - nately flipt upon the marble, and the king fell headlong from the top to the bottom of the flair. ❋ Unknown (1792)

Frofpero bad not yet iroktm aud bwritd bit flaff* nor drtwmtd bis bc§if AifiT tban did ever flimimtt fiund. ❋ Unknown (1782)

-- (here he almost blubbered aloud) -- "if they did not walk up the brick wall with all the deliberation in the world, merely helping themselves over the top by a small flaff of their wings; and where they have gone, none of Shingle's people know." ❋ Michael Scott (1812)