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An everlastin 'flappin' of the sails, and a creakin 'of the boombs, and an onsteady pitchin' of the ship, and folks lyin 'about dozin' away their time, and the sea a-heavin 'a long heavy swell, like the breathin' of the chist of some great monster asleep.
The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Again the equipment has no patience for any kind of flappin or leaning.
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Three dudes, flappin 'gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: aaronk the dishonest republican still flappin his lips?
Think Progress » Rubio raises Terri Schiavo case in an attack on Crist. 2010
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'Boys linebacker Ken Brooking, a Falcon for 11 seasons who was let go after the coaches allegedly told him "It's a young man's game," was trash-talkin' and arm-flappin '(bird-like) during the game.
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Three dudes, flappin 'gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Here's "Darth Vader" flappin 'his useless yap again.
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Three dudes, flappin' gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Camp Clinton ... your lips are a-flappin 'but we ain't a-listenin'!
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" (Priscilla nodded, vigorously.) "But your man ignores your frosty exchange, and he begins to sniff her up and down, only this time the deeply scalloped wings o" his snout are beatin" like a fat swan trapped in a wind tunnel, flappin" like an archangel on Methedrine, she is gettin" through to him on the olfactory level.
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