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Sentences starting with wing

Wing owes me a vacation. [9]

Sentences ending with wing

How fondly do we believe, with the ostrich, that our body is hidden when our head is tucked under our wing! [9]
You are invaluable to Mr. Wing. [9]
There is nothing to interrupt the view or the breeze; it is like inspecting the world on the wing. [5]
He is but thirty years, they say, and yet his hair is white as a pigeon's wing. [11]
Suddenly something happened: the young officer gave a gasp and bending double sat down on the ground like a bird shot on the wing. [2]
I fly from the storm with a broken wing. [11]
Dr. Gruber takes the same view, and has shewn that rudimentary teeth are commonly found on the inferior surface of the right wing. [1]
The spectre-knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight for a callow wing! [5]
And the tall, slim, blond one, with the green hat and the feather in it, is Jimmy Wing. [9]
The poet should slavishly obey the laws he lays down for himself of his own free-will, and subordinate to them every word, and yet his matter and his song should seem to float on a free and soaring wing. [10]

Short sentences using wing

Wing! [9]

Sentences containing wing two or more times

The left wing, which acts as the bow, lies over the right wing which serves as the fiddle. [1]
If the wing of friendship should never moult a feather, the wing of relationship should never be clipped, but be always expanded and serene. [12]
Old James Wing and I have got a trust company organized, and the building up, and the man Wing wanted for president backed out. [9]

More example sentences with the word wing in them

But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably. [6]
In the right wing, but not in the left, there is a little plate, as transparent as talc, surrounded by nervures, and called the speculum. [1]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
How the tiny wing pinches; the falcons are not much stronger. [10]
Here is the wing of one of those pigeons. [5]
In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
By the bye, Wing is using him for a good thing. [9]
The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
In the barn-yard were the hens, just as usual, walking with measured step, scratching and picking in the muck, darting suddenly to one side with an elevated wing, clucking, chattering, jabbering endlessly about nothing. [4]
He and Wing were buying in traction stocks out West. [9]
One evening, three weeks or so after the conversation with Ethel Wing just related, Honora's husband entered her room as her maid was giving the finishing touches to her toilet. [9]
The wings would wear out before they got half-way; even the pin-feathers would be gone; the wing frames would be as bare as kite sticks before the paper is pasted on. [5]
To him she was the one being in the world worth struggling for; the bird to be caught on the wing, or coaxed into the nest, or snared into the net; and two of the three things he had tried without avail. [11]
The left wing was occupied by the officers of the household, the innumerable servants and the horses and chariots of the sovereign. [10]
Ethel Wing, who was next to Honora, nudged her and laughed, and passed her some of Maillard's chocolates, which she had in her pocket. [9]
On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, etc., is utterly inexplicable. [1]
Mr. Wing was too subtle to be crude; and he had married a Playfair, a family noted for good living. [9]
So we concluded to walk, for the present, till we had had some wing practice. [5]
Nothing easier than to pry open a door or window in the north wing, by the ball-room. [9]
His errand was to invite him to a banquet which was to take place that evening at his residence in a wing of the royal palace. [10]
As Mitiahwe turned to her, a strange burning light in her eyes, Swift Wing said: "It is good. [11]
After setting fire to Bent-Anat's rooms, he had determined to lay a brand to the wing of the palace where, with the other princes, Uarda's friend Rameri was sleeping. [10]
But they had to avoid carrying the man upstairs, and so they took him into the wing and put him in the room that had been Madame Schoss'. [2]
When she reached this point it was always to James Wing that she clung--the financier, at least, had been impartial. [9]
Going out into the yard she paused to consider where she should go next--to drink tea in the servants' wing with Vasilich, or into the storeroom to put away what still lay about. [2]
Basal part of the secondary wing feather, nearest to the body. [1]
Rameses hurried to the north wing, where Bent-Anat had her apartments; he found her safe indeed, but wringing her hands, for her young favorite Uarda had disappeared in the flames after she had roused her and saved her with her father's assistance. [10]
The cannonade on the left flank will begin as soon as the guns of the right wing are heard. [2]
The rooms on the ground floor, which had been the master's, should be his, and the corresponding wing on the other side could be made ready for Philippus. [10]
For I suspected that the bird would take wing now. [5]
And now the stranger stepped back one pace, took off his soldier-cap, tossed it into the wing, and began to speak, with deliberation, nobody listening, everybody laughing and whispering. [5]
Mr. Wing and some others have tried the thing before, nearer home, and it worked like a charm. [9]
After a moment's silence, Ethel Wing pursued her own train of thought. [9]
That oriole's wing she wears in her bonnet makes her look gorgeous, she'll be a stunning Pocahontas for the next tableau. [6]
But fortunately the several feathers on the wing suffice to give us a clue to the problem, and they prove to demonstration that a gradation is at least possible from a mere spot to a finished ball-and-socket ocellus. [1]
When they had seen the dining room, with its carved mantel and silver door-knobs, and the ballroom in the wing, they came out, and Stephen locked the door again. [9]
And when you see one of them come sailing around with one wing tipped up and t'other down, you make up your mind he is saying to himself: 'I wish Mary Ann in Arkansaw could see me now. [5]
And in the same person, don't you know the same two shades in different parts of the character that you find in the wing and thigh of a partridge? [6]
I should likewise,' said the doctor with increased solemnity, 'give her something light for supper--the wing of a roasted fowl now--' 'Why, goodness gracious me, sir, it's cooking at the kitchen fire this instant! [12]
One of the rooms in the second story of the ladies' wing where she lodged was still untenanted, and her husband would be responsible if she occupied it, only Barbara must promise not to attract attention to herself by any sound or gesture. [10]
Take off the roof, remove a wall, let in the air, throw out a wing, but leave the old foundations. [11]
Yung Wing, now returned to China, had conceived the idea of making an appeal to the Government of the United States for relief of his starving countrymen. [5]
Then suddenly she remembered to whom she was speaking, and a flood of feeling ran through her; for Swift Wing had cherished her like a fledgeling in the nest till her young white man came from "down East. [11]
Even if we put them into the wing, the men's room, or the nurse's room, we must ask permission. [2]
The corps of Ptah remained as a reserve behind the left wing. [10]
There is no program offered by any wing of the Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruction of the Union. [7]
I suppose you poets may like white meat best, very probably; you had rather have a wing than a drumstick, I dare say. [6]
In our British Phasgonura viridissima it appeared to me that the serrated nervure is rubbed against the rounded hind-corner of the opposite wing, the edge of which is thickened, coloured brown, and very sharp. [1]
He looked round, particularly at the wing not yet gained by the flames, and exclaimed in a loud voice: "The fire is intentional! [10]
The solemn butler packed my clothes, and I arranged for a room at the Club in the wing that recently had been added for the accommodation of bachelors and deserted husbands. [9]
Once we were out in the Wide Wing pass. [11]
The left wing of the fleet advanced. [10]
He's the son of James Wing, the financier. [9]
Once the sight of her school friend, Ethel Wing, chatting with a tall young man, brought up a flood of recollections; again, in a millinery establishment, she came face to face with the attractive Mrs. Maitland whom she had seen at Hot Springs. [9]
All the years of her marriage, ever since she had first heard his name, the stature of James Wing had been insensibly growing, and the vastness of his empire gradually disclosed. [9]
The mission was now threatened, and Yung Wing, knowing the high honor in which General Grant was held in China, believed that through him it might be saved. [5]
And the Russians, not having time to begin a general engagement, withdrew their left wing from the position they had intended to occupy and took up a new position which had not been foreseen and was not fortified. [2]
I belong to no flock; my home may be among the palms of Syria, the olives of Italy, the oaks of England, the elms that shadow the Hudson or the Connecticut; I build no nest; to-day I am here, to-morrow on the wing. [6]
One of the nervures (a) on the under surface of the former is finely serrated, and is scraped across the prominent nervures on the upper surface of the opposite or right wing. [1]
I will defend myself and you, too, with this conquering instrument I hold in my hand; huzza, I say, I now invoke time's broad wing to shed around us some dewdrops of verdant spring. [5]
And Mrs. Spence, Mr. Grainger, Mr. Wing, and Mr. Cuthbert. [9]
Among these were Mr. Gamaliel Ives, who talked literature with Cynthia; and Lucy Baird, his wife, who had taken Cynthia under her wing. [9]
The instinct of mothering was strong in her, and from the beginning she had taken the shy and delicate student under her wing, recognizing in him one of the physically helpless dedicated to a supreme function. [9]
The sharpshooters of Morand's division and of the vice-King's division will open a heavy fire on seeing the attack commence on the right wing. [2]
The Chinese Educational Mission, mentioned in the foregoing, was a thriving Hartford institution, projected eight years before by a Yale graduate named Yung Wing. [5]
But by the lord Harry, I can't see the difference between Dick Turpin and Wing and Trixy Brent. [9]
The one who lisped was Mr. Cuthbert, familiarly known as "Toots": the other, taller and slimmer and paler, was Jimmy Wing. [9]
Long had she lingered round a bird-nest to leave therein the gaudy wing of a butterfly. [13]
Many of the lights in the offices of the household had been extinguished, but the private apartments of the Emperor in the wing south of the central pavilion were still illuminated. [4]
Mr. Wing is largely interested in the Orange Trust Company. [9]
Doesn't Yung Wing know us yet? [5]
The Hellenic and Karian mercenaries were to fight at the left of the centre, the horse at the extreme of each wing, and the Egyptian and Ethiopian foot were stationed, six ranks deep, on the right and left of the armed chariots, and Greek mercenaries. [10]
Well, we talked it over, and I left on the one o'clock for Newport to see Mr. Wing. [9]
A. I thought it not worth while to look further, and was minded to use the money in finishing the wing of the foundling-asylum connected with the priory and nunnery. [5]
I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting-point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas. [7]
First one wing is rubbed over the other, and then the movement is reversed. [1]
This toothed nervure is rapidly scraped across a projecting, smooth, hard nervure (r) on the upper surface of the opposite wing. [1]
So presently, after inquiry, he came to the open square where the new Court House stood, the dome of which was indicated by a mass of staging, and one wing still to be completed. [9]
So, the poet, in trying to wing his way back through the life that has kindled, flitted, and faded along our watercourses and on our southern hillsides for unknown generations, finds nothing to breathe or fly in; he meets "A vast vacuity! [6]
Now he disappeared in the wing of the building that united the ladies' rooms with the main structure opposite. [10]
The pilot took his glass and looked at it steadily for a moment, and said, chiefly to himself: "It can't be the Blue Wing. [5]
What so affected him was Kutuzov's calm and quiet comment on the advantage or disadvantage of Bennigsen's proposal to move troops by night from the right to the left flank to attack the French right wing. [2]
Can't you let him find peace and rest and fellowship under Pere Jacopo's kindly wing? [5]
And she recalled her husband's account of his talk with James Wing. [9]
Its breath is heated;--I would swing The broad gray plumes,--the eagle's wing. [6]
You must have heard of her father--he is the Mr. Wing who owns all the railroads and other things, and they have a house in Newport and another in New York, and a country place and a yacht. [9]
Among other powers, he quoted the father of Honora's schoolmate, Mr. James Wing, as authority for this prophecy. [9]
Among others, I have become great friends with Ethel Wing, who is tall and blond and good-looking; and her clothes, though simple, are beautiful. [9]
The sensitive plate has taken one look at a scene, and remembers it all, Every little circumstance is there,--the hoof in air, the wing in flight, the leaf as it falls, the wave as it breaks. [6]
The reader who has followed these letters may remember Yung Wing, who had charge of the Chinese educational mission in Hartford, and how Mark Twain, with Twichell, called on General Grant in behalf of the mission. [5]
He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern. [5]
Upon Ethel Wing had descended the dominating characteristics of the elder James, who, whatever the power he might wield in Wall Street, was little more than a visitor in Newport. [9]
He's a pretty good fellow, and he's in with James Wing and that crowd of big financiers, and he seems to have taken a shine to me probably because he's heard of that copper deal I put through this spring. [9]
But Dr. Gruber further shews that their development is in part directly due to the stimulus from the friction of one wing over the other. [1]
The slim, tall figure of a young woman descended from a carriage and crossed the pavement, and in the soft light of the vestibule she recognized Ethel Wing. [9]
The Russians might fall on his left wing, might break through his center, he himself might be killed by a stray cannon ball. [2]
This hope was expressed even more fervently by Mr. Cuthbert and Mr. Wing, and the whole party waved her a cordial good-by as the carriage turned the circle. [9]
As we drop down along the shore, there is a white sea-gull asleep on the rock, rolled up in a ball, with his head under his wing. [4]
Sinai, and in doing so, one effaced a letter with its wing. [10]

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