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Sentences ending with wings

The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
The young husband went about as if he were borne on wings. [10]
Here they fight very much like game- cocks, seizing each other with their beaks and striking with their wings. [1]
Well, then, has this dog any wings? [5]
And just then they came in sight of the house of the Presidents, with its beautiful portico and its broad wings. [9]
Do you know then what it is when the pipes sound, and the lutes tinkle, and our feet fly round in circles as if they had wings? [10]
Let us lend them wings. [10]
Nay, I accuse the noble Althea of withholding from Nike, in her personation, her special ornament--her swift, powerful wings. [10]
It belonged to the most distinguished merchant in the place, and consisted of a large open courtyard in the form of a square, surrounded by the building and its communicating wings. [10]
Ephraim had followed the captain of the archers, who pointed out the youth's uncle, saying: "Shining armor would become you also, and when drums are beating, pipes squeaking shrilly, and banners waving, a man marches as lightly as if he had wings. [10]

Sentences containing wings two or more times

Here is a passage showing admirably the two different conditions: wings closed and the selective instinct picking out its descriptive expressions; then suddenly wings flashing open and the imagination in the firmament, where it is always at home. [6]
We must, however, be cautious in concluding that the wings are spread out solely for display, as some birds do so whose wings are not beautiful. [1]

More example sentences with the word wings in them

Eagles spread out your wings, Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
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]
I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
Now spreading its wings, throwing up its head, or opening its tail like a fan; now strutting about with a hopping gait until tired, when it gabbled some kind of note, and was relieved by another. [1]
I still have wings, I still might fly, but here I creep like a snail--because it is your will. [10]
As if on wings, he went from man to man, shaking hands with his comrades. [10]
Fear lent him wings, but neglected to lift his feet. [9]
Had not the wings which, as Nike, belonged to her been lacking, every one would have been convinced that she was flying--that she had just descended from the heights of Olympus to crown the kneeling victor. [10]
Ride on the wings of the wind! [5]
He flopped his wings and raised a whoop. [5]
Turkey-cocks scrape their wings against the ground, and some kinds of grouse thus produce a buzzing sound. [1]
Ambition and love will also sustain her like two mighty wings on the proud height to which they have borne her, so long as they dwell harmoniously in her fiery soul. [10]
A group of white fan-tailed pigeons had lighted on the green plot before it and clustered about one of their companions who lay on his back, fluttering in a strange way, with outspread wings and twitching feet. [6]
The grass-hoppers were whirring in the mielles beyond; a flutter of wings went by overhead. [11]
The two meeting-houses which faced each other like a pair of fighting-cocks had not flapped their wings or crowed at each other for a considerable time. [6]
Some of them were murderously spelled; others were missives in such elegant phrase and dress, that danger was only to be apprehended in them by one skilled in the mysteries of medieval poisoning, when death flew on the wings of a perfume. [4]
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. [12]
You want to wear your wings, you know, and your other things. [5]
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]
In the pictures we always saw the angels with wings on--and that was all right; but we jumped to the conclusion that that was their way of getting around --and that was all wrong. [5]
His tortured heart was stirred with deep emotion, and the drooping wings of ambition unfolded with fresh energy. [10]
His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
So my old wantonness unfolded its wings, but it was not to remain always unpunished. [10]
As I don't want my wreck to be washed up on one of the beaches in company with devil's-aprons, bladder-weeds, dead horse-shoes, and bleached crab-shells, I turn about and flap my long narrow wings for home. [6]
When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
When he tried to follow his master's flight he fell after the first few strokes of his wings, and usually among nettles. [10]
He was given to flights of oratory that way--a very dangerous thing, for often the wings which take one into clouds of oratorical enthusiasm are wax and melt up there, and down you come. [5]
Love does not thrive without hope, and Cyprian was beginning to see that it was idle in him to think of folding these wide wings of Myrtle's so that they would be shut up in any cage he could ever offer her. [6]
What she did think or feel could not easily have been set down, for her mind was one tremulous confusion of unusual thoughts, her heart was beset by new feelings, her imagination, suddenly finding itself, was trying its wings helplessly. [11]
It swept along, thick and solid, five hundred thousand angels abreast, and every angel carrying a torch and singing--the whirring thunder of the wings made a body's head ache. [5]
They appear with their wings, of course, because they are on official service, and because the dying persons wouldn't know they were angels if they hadn't wings--but do you reckon they fly with them? [5]
When he saw the wonderful youth dash by, Ulrich marvelled that his steed did not put forth wings and soar away with him into the clouds. [10]
When standing in the wings with Terry he ventured to apologise playfully for the joke, but Terry made no answer; and once again he had whispered good-naturedly as they stood together on the stage; but the reply had been a low, scornful laugh. [11]
Thy feet are the wings of a dove, And thy heart is of fire. [11]
Such differences between the upper and lower surfaces of the wings of several species of Papilio may be seen in the beautiful plates to Mr. Wallace's 'Memoir on the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region,' in 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. [1]
The ocelli on the tail-coverts of the peacock offer a familiar example, as well as those on the wings of the peacock-butterfly (Vanessa). [1]
I went afoot the rest of the day, and let my wings hang. [5]
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
So long as the mother's wings cover it, the young bird doesn't fly so thoughtlessly out of the warm nest into the wide world. [10]
Baron Malfalconnet possessed the gift of lending Time wings and using the simplest incident as the foundation for an entertaining story. [10]
To think of the eagle's wings, being clipped so that he shall never lift himself over the farm-yard fence! [6]
Away around through the curtaining forest I sped, as if on wings, none knowing what was become of me, none suspecting my design. [5]
The wishing-carpet of the Arabian Nights was a sensible idea--but our earthly idea of angels flying these awful distances with their clumsy wings was foolish. [5]
Nothing frightened her; the "haunted" chamber, with the torn hangings that flapped like wings when there was air stirring, was one of her favorite retreats. [6]
It is true that unfledged writers found a place to try their wings in it, and that makes it more interesting. [6]
I may add that the wings in certain Hymenoptera (see Shuckard, 'Fossorial Hymenoptera,' 1837, pp. [1]
I have felt that the poetry of science lost its wings when the last powder of projection had been cast into the crucible, and the fire of the last transmutation furnace went out. [6]
I'm not sure that the locust's droning and the bright flutter of the butterfly's wings are not the way Nature has of fastening the soul to the meaning of it all. [11]
She came with that sense of manifold deficiencies, and eager ambition to supply them, which carries any learner upward, as if on wings, over the heads of the mechanical plodders and the indifferent routinists. [6]
I bade him thank the chaplain for me, and opening the book, I found a leaf turned down at the words, "In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. [11]
Then shall beauty--Divinity taking outlines and color--light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust, soars from the shell that held a poor grub, which would never have found wings, had not the stone been lifted. [6]
The Lord Chamberlain swept down upon the pair like a flamingo with wings outspread. [11]
Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears. [1]
Was his fibre sufficiently tough to become eventually the captain of one of those fortresses, to compete with the Maitlands and the Wings, and others she knew by name, calmly and efficiently intrenched there? [9]
Two infolding wings, stretching towards the water, enclose a court, and through the slender white pillars of the peristyle one beholds in fancy the summer seas of Greece. [9]
Beyond the platform stretch the two wings, one of which is itself a mosque of great architectural merit. [5]
The pelicans and storks remained motionless, their long bills hidden beneath their wings, but the cranes were startled by the mere beat of an oar, stretching their necks, and peering anxiously into the distance, if they heard but the song of the boatmen. [10]
Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again--a croak with a distinctly insulting expression about it. [5]
According to the stage directions, he was to steal along the trees at the wings, and listen to the talk of the men at the fire plotting against him, who were presently to pretend good comradeship to his face. [11]
Go, my Lord St. John, give thy feet wings! [5]
Then the evil spread its wings, and soared away into the night. [9]
As the escaping soul found its wings, spread them, and rose from that dun morass called Life, the Sieur de Mauprat, giving a long, deep sigh, fell back in his great arm-chair dead, and the silver snuff-box rattled to the floor. [11]
The Saturniidae include some of the most beautiful of all moths, their wings being decorated, as in our British Emperor moth, with fine ocelli; and Mr. T.W. [1]
Large bats hovered softly on their delicate wings over the whole, and sounds of mirth and song echoed from the river. [10]
Though they murmur soft "Our Father," Angel wings to speed it on Past the bright wheels of the Pleiads, Have they thought of benison? [11]
Must those who soar be condemned to eternal loneliness, and was it a longing they did not comprehend which bade them stretch their wings toward the sun? [9]
She had been so long inactive, tied by the leg, with wings clipped; now her mind roamed into pleasant places of the imagination where life had freedom, where she could renew the impulses of youth. [11]
Because she had smiled at him, yesterday and to-day, he had soared heavenwards on wings of his own making. [9]
She was walking slow, and her head was bent down, and her wings hanging limp and droopy; and she looked ever so tired, and was crying, poor thing! [5]
Pardieu (with many shrugs and outward gestures of the palms), Governor Hamilton had said if the Long Knives had wings or fins they might reach him now--he was all unprepared. [9]
An angel, in short, would stand no chance in one of these brilliant assemblies on account of his wings, and he probably could not be heard, on account of the low, heavenly pitch of his voice. [4]
To whichever side she may turn, the expanded wings and the obliquely-held tail are turned towards her. [1]
Other species, when settled on the ground or herbage, now and then suddenly and slightly lift up their wings. [1]
The temple of Serapis lay in restful silence, enveloped in darkness, which so far hid its four wings from sight as to give it the aspect of a single rock-like mass wrapped in purple mist. [10]
I heard muttered sentences; half-uttered screams that seemed smothered violently; and the swish of invisible garments, the rush of invisible wings. [5]
Also he had seen an incubus once, and several times he had seen the great bat that sucks the blood from the necks of people while they are asleep, fanning them softly with its wings and so keeping them drowsy till they die. [5]
The other one seemed to fly, but I did not see its wings. [10]
I can still see myself in a short pink skirt, with a wreath of roses on my fair curls, wings on my shoulders, a quiver on my back, and a bow in my hand, standing before the mirror very much pleased with my appearance. [10]
Here is the seat of Elfonzo; darkness claims but little victory over this dominion, and in vain does she spread out her gloomy wings. [5]
Thousands of crows rose above the walls and circled in the air, cawing and noisily flapping their wings. [2]
What I beheld raising you to the stars, as though with eagles' wings, was a clogging weight; what seemed to me at a distance the bright sunshine irradiating your path, was a Will-o'-the-wisp luring to destruction. [10]
Both wings are raised a little at the same time, so as to increase the resonance. [1]
These melancholy things pursued me as I flew, till my wings drooped, and I felt that I must drop into the dull marsh far beneath, round which travelled a lonely mist. [11]
The trusting hearers pressed around him and Miriam with shouts of joy, and the drooping courage of the timorous appeared to put forth new wings. [10]
We transformed the poor creatures into a motionless, miserable mass, and just now they were cleaving the air with their strong wings, proclaiming by proud, glad cries to their families among the reeds their approach with an abundant store of prey. [10]
He had a pole ten feet long, with a crook in the end of it, and occasionally a goose would branch out from the flock and make a lively break around the corner, with wings half lifted and neck stretched to its utmost. [5]
I could see, plain enough, that on a head-wind, wings was a mistake. [5]
At last the plague ceased, because winter stretched its wings out swiftly o'er the plains from frigid ranges in the West. [11]
The valley was perfectly still and deserted; on the highest pinnacles of the cliff, which rose perpendicularly to the right, sat a long row of vultures, as motionless as if the mid-day heat had taken all strength out of their wings. [10]
These little colored patches are stains upon the windows of a human soul; stand on the outside, they are but dull and meaningless spots of color; seen from within, they are glorified shapes with empurpled wings and sunbright aureoles. [6]
Mocking shapes flitted past him, the wings of obscene birds buffeted him, the morass grew up about him; and now it was all a red moving mass like a dead sea heaving about him. [11]
The quiet spot, outside, seemed to remain the same, saving that there was music in the air, and a sound of angels' wings. [12]
When I go out driving--" "Your runners ought to fly before you with roses in their hair and wings on their shoulders like Cupids. [10]
It was an open door into a world where emotion is expressed, where imagination can range, where love and longing find a language, where imagery is given to every noble and suppressed passion of the soul, where every aspiration finds wings. [4]
She felt not only relieved of a burden, but as if borne on wings. [10]
Chains, even golden ones, drag us down, but liberty gives wings. [10]
The hours wore on, but still he sat there, peace in all his heart, energy tingling softly through every vein, the wings of hope fluttering at his ear. [11]

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