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Usage examples of flappers.

A group of flappers swooped down in a group, battering at the car bodily and enfolding the target within their leathery shapes, smothering it beneath their weight.

The sound of flappers drowned the wail of jets and the throb of helicopters.

A hundred flappers had surrounded the Marine commander's chopper and brought it down, and after that there was no one in charge: just parties of desperate men holding where they could, trying to form a breakwater against the Swarm tide.

The android dived onto the tank, picked up flappers, tore them like paper.

She was held aloft by the cloak she filled with the winds she generated, and she battered at the flappers with typhoons, flinging them, tearing them apart.

The importance of a public personage could be estimated by the number of layers of flappers cutting him off from ready congress with the plebian mob.

They existed in benign Symbiosis with the official barricade of flappers, since it was recognized almost universally that the tighter the system the more need for a safety valve.

With a personage of foremost importance, such as the Secretary General of the World Federation of Free States, the maze of by-passes through unofficials would be as formidable as were the official phalanges of flappers surrounding a person merely very important.

The Martian Old Ones, not hampered by bodies subject to space-time, would have had as little use for flappers as a snake has for shoes.