Trouble is, the man apparently swatted Sheffield in the jaw.
The sound of slaps echoed through the ranks as men swatted at mosquitoes.
Both men laughed, but then the older one swung his fist at her, casually, as a man would swat a dog.
He gestured again and the crowds simply vanished, flicked into nonexistence more swiftly than a man could swat a fly.
They killed those researchers as swiftly as a man swats a fly, and paid no more penalty for it than that man would.
The open-air waiting room was full of men on crutches and mothers swatting flies away from their newborns.
She tousled his hair, men swatted him lightly on the back.
They struck dragon after dragon out of the sky, almost as a man might swat flies that annoyed him.
The man roared and swatted at her, trying to dislodge her.
The old man was beside him in a second, swatting him away.