He opened the cover and began reading the flap copy aloud: "A stolen kiss.
"Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other," so begins the inside flap summary of the new paperback book by Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be), Heidi Julavits (founding editor of The Believer), Leanne Shapton (Swimming Studies) "and 639 others".
From the American side, beginning with the flap over the tattered World Trade Center flag, it included an entirely acceptable outpouring of passion for lives lost, but also of unfettered North American cheerleading that left many in general and the Russians in particular feeling as if they'd stepped into a cold war blockbuster starring Sylvester Stallone.
The parking lot was acquiring a fine layer of dust, and as the tent's walls began to flap Mayweather agreed to retreat into the gym, where he conducted a workout that wasn't quite as fake as it looked.
Interactions often began with flap, run or jostle, which were the three most common aggressive behaviours, and often ended with jostle or grapple (Table 1, Fig. 3).
Looking at me all the while, a devious glint in those eyes, he began to flap his arms.
Point your boat in the desired direction Let out your main-sheet until the front of the sail begins to flap When this happens, sheet in (pull on the main-sheet) until the flapping stops.
Macmillan, hitherto unflappable, began to flap like a wet hen.
"I went 3-0 up, and I thought I shouldn't be 3-0 up here, but Lloydy you've got to take it," Jaws told commentator Stuart Pyke after his win, "Then he came back at me and I have to say my backside began to flap a bit," an image which is going to be a tough one to shake off.
I picked Indie up and screamed, "I didn't know you could fly!" Tickled, she began to flap her arms as we whizzed around rose bushes and aloe plants.
