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With a soft flic-flac the great night-moths were flying round the wire-gauze cover, alighting, taking flight, returning, mounting to the ceiling, re-descending. They rushed at the candle and extinguished it with a flap of the wing; they fluttered on our shoulders, clung to our clothing, grazed our faces. My study had become a cave of a necromancer, the darkness alive with creatures of the night!
Firewood is dear, you see. Her feet, omitted on the passport, though they really might have found a place there under the heading Distinguishing Signs, were remarkable for their small size, and for that particular something which old-fashioned dancing masters used to call flic-flac, a something that put you in mind of Mlle.
'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching, said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock. That officer, being a gentleman, was a good deal disconcerted, and scandalised too literal to see, and too honest to enjoy, the absurd side of the combat.
'Elle a duc flic-flac, was old Marcel's highest word of praise, and old Marcel was the dancing master that deserved the epithet of 'the Great. People used to say 'the Great Marcel, as they said 'Frederick the Great, and in Frederick's time." "Did Marcel compose any ballets?" inquired Finot. "Yes, something in the style of Les Quatre Elements and L'Europe galante."
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