99 Words to use with wings

Which when the greisly tyrant did espie, Like a grimme lyon rushing with fierce might Out of his den, he seized greedelie 435 On the resistles pray, and, with fell spight, Under the left wing stroke his weapon slie Into his heart, that his deepe-groning spright In bloodie streames foorth fled into the aire, His bodie left the spectacle of care.

For, once there, its wing-feathers left off growing.

After listening for awhile on one of the lower dead sprays of a pine, he came swooping forward within a few feet of my face, and remained fluttering in the air for half a minute or so, sustaining himself with whirring wing-beats, like a humming-bird in front of a flower, while I could look into his eyes and see his innocent wonder.

In form he is about as smoothly plump and compact as a pebble that has been whirled in a pot-hole, the flowing contour of his body being interrupted only by his strong feet and bill, the crisp wing-tips, and the up-slanted wren-like tail.

SEE Lenin, V. I. Left wing communism.

" He was filled with a desire to help her, and ran his hand under the feathers, and felt along the wing-bone.

The only means by which each mortal eye Sends messengers to the wide firmament, That to the longing soul brings presently High contemplation and deep wonderment; By which aspirement she her wings displays, And herself thither, whence she came, upraise.

The wee beetle, satisfied and refreshed, climbed up the grass-blade, and when it reached the tip lifted its dusty black wing-cases just enough to throw out a pair of fine gauzy wings that had been neatly folded up beneath them, and flew away.

MALLETTE, GERTRUDE E. Hidden wings mystery, by Alan Gregg, pseud.

The wing-quills of the latter, however, having been systematically plucked for hundreds of generations, are now dwarfed and useless.

All across the meadow lands the hot air danced and quivered, and in the limpid waters of the lowland brook, spanned by a little stone bridge, the fish hung motionless above the yellow gravel, and the dragonfly sat quite still, perched upon the sharp tip of a spike of the rushes, with its wings glistening in the sun.

The general colour of the former is golden, or orange-yellow, each feather having a glossy dark brown or black tip, particularly remarkable on the hackles of the cock and the wing-coverts, and also on the darker feathers of the breast.

Lower parts very bright yellow on the throat, breast, and wing-linings, but the belly pure white.

We saw the mother hen with one wing spread right out, and the children were much surprised to see how large it was.

From this capricious clime she soars, Oh! would some god but wings supply!

Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

Theory of wing sections.

Vivian Case (W); 23Apr65; R359934. Wings north.

The feather dress, itself, was white; around their necks they wore a broad gold band; the wing-mirror shone in green, red, and black; and the wing-edges were black, and the head was dark green and shimmered like satin.

The wing-fan swings irregularly to and fro.

Then to my anguished soul, with care outworn, Comes, like a strain on aerial wings upborne, This message from her soul:'Bid sorrow cease; Love dies not;'tis th' immortal life above.

Thus thou disdain'st all worldly wings as slow, Because thy Muse with angels' wings doth leave Time's wings behind, and Cupid's wings below; But take thou heed, lest Fame's wings thee deceive, With all thy speed from fame thou canst not flee, But more thou flees, the more it follows thee.

They included big and little white egrets and also the mauve and pearl-colored heron, with a partially black head and many- colored bill, which flies with quick, repeated wing-flappings, instead of the usual slow heron wing-beats.

Behind the extended form of the Virgin is the figure of Christ; a glorious red seraph with expanded wings hovers above his head.

Scientists tell us that the awkward young eagle has a wider wing-stretch than the old, skilled eagle.

99 Words to use with  wings