Are, then, these sunbeams which flow from thy head, Pinions as well as tresses bearing thee Across the perilous chasm which guards our cave?
Poor OLIVE, the forlornest captive bird That ever beat its heart out in a cage, Fluttered the pinions of her restless will In vain against her dungeon.
The back is high and round, both it and the pinions being covered with long hair instead of feathers.
They have black feet, like those of a goose, and they walk upright, with their fins or pinionshanging down like the arms of a man, so that when seen at a distance they look like so many pigmies.
Thy pinions only bear thee out To search for plunder and to scout For prey, in soft and noiseless flight, When earth lies in repose, and night Has drawn her curtain o'er the sky.
Here and hence these heralds answer; Then they take their pinions swiftly, And are vanished ere we know them, Still to roam, and race, and ramble.
Could I soar with the Phoenix onpinions of flame, With him I would wish to expire in the blaze.
Dread thou nothing; for this is a friendly band that has come with the fleet rivalry of their pinions to this rock, after prevailing with difficulty on the mind of our father.
On me, hastening to start, hast thou urged this injunction; for my winged quadruped flaps with his pinionsthe smooth track of æther; and blithely would he recline his limbs in his stalls at home.
In plate 63, Isis again appears as a wing bearer, and in this figure we find, as we ought to do, that the feathers of the pinions are attached to the arms of the goddess.
For one who rode upon the clouds of the typhoon, pinions were useless.
Now he is an archer, standing in a disc representing the sun, having wings below him; now he stands in front of the circle, the pinions and sometimes his body terminating in feathers resembling a bird's expanded tail.
Thus the Greeks depicted Mercury with wings on his legs and elsewhere, and the Hebrews gave large pinions to their seraphim--sometimes as many as six being used by each (Isa.
Life's sea, at best, is but a lonely sea, Yet thrice from angry winds and waters rude The mem'ry of their bitter feud has flown On the soft pinions of a gentle tone.
Then the fountain ceased to rise, and the dove to beat its pinions in the spray, and the wild fawn to drink at the water’s edge.
Then with swift pinions they rose again, and soared in great spirals of flight, till they gleamed against the morning blue like four white banners adrift before a skiey wind.
At dawn, the four swans arose, and with their white pinions circled high above the lake, glittering as they soared into the sunflood as it swept across the summits of the eastern hills.
When the yellow stream of the sun poured westward out of the mountain-ridges of Achill, they chanted a farewell song, and then stretched their widepinions and flew homeward with beating hearts.
Then Lir awoke, and Fionula and Aed and Fiachra and Conn ceased their singing, and spread out their white pinions to the light of a new day, and ruffled their snowy breasts against the frothing that the dawn-wind made upon the lake.
O West, how fragrant breathes thy gentle air, Spikenard and aloes on thy pinions glide.
Here, where the power of discerning form and barbarity gradually awakens, there appear the pinions which bear one to the only real home of culture--ancient Greece.
The spell of silence is broken; the roar of pinionsreverberates far and wide.
For the volume of mud and spray thrown up by those whirling pinions would drench his own plumage.
Ten minutes later a lammergeyer afforded a second glorious spectacle, speeding through space on pinions rigidly motionless, but strongly reflexed, as is usual on a descending gradient.
In the negative case, our eyes sank gently below the surface of the earth, and crouching down we heard the rush of wind-splitting pinions pass over and behind--probably to offer a fairer mark when they next wheeled round.
Arrayed line beyond line in echelon, ten thousand pinions beat, in unison--beat in short, sharp strokes from the elbow.
The temptation to peep out is strong, but crouching deep down, you wait till the mighty pinions beat above you, and the first wedge of eight or ten sails grandly away in the morning sun.
That flicker of pinions and flying foam are, moreover, accompanied by a chorus of myriad notes--a babel of twirling sound blended in rising and falling cadences, comparable only to the distant roar of some mighty city.
Have darted through the gloom, Like that swift angel that crossed our flight Where the thunder-cloud did loom, From his upcast pinions flashing the light Of some inward word or doom.
But the spirit of Time from his tomb is springing, The dust of decay from his pinions flinging; Ever renewing his glorious youth, Scattering around him the dew of Truth.
He lifted up his head, and behold, the bright gleam was no ripple down from the snowy roof, but came from the mighty pinions of an angel, into whose beaming face he was gazing.
And were I winging my flight far over all times, and far over thee, I would fold my pinions and yield myself wholly to the domination of thine eyes.
The man who wrote that book (one would say) had no heaven in his soul, nor any pinions whereon to soar heavenward.
As still the vast and succoring air I tread, So, mounting still, on swifter pinions sped, I scorn the world, and heaven receives my flight.
Place thy breast against my breast--place thy two hands upon the pinions of my wings--place thy side against my side.
As soon as she begins to attack the inside, seize her by her wings, beat down her wings, the pinions of her wings and her claws, tear her and throw her into a ravine of the mountain, that she may die there a death of hunger and thirst.
Place thy side against my side, place thy hands on thepinions of my wings.
And what becomes of the chicken that does not run to the mother's pinions when the hawk is hovering?
I have long heard the broad pinions of that vertigo beating over my head.
Quick as thought their tireless pinions clave the unresisting air.
Her emerald car the youthful Zephyrs bear, Fanning her bosom with their pinions blue.
In the dim distance he discerned the flight Of Freedom, on swift pinions heralding Enfranchisement to the oppressed of earth.
Upon what spectacle of fluttering pinions afloat in iridescent air, like a Raphael dream of heaven and its angels, might we not look down if we could get near enough to our brilliant evening star to behold the intimate splendors of its life?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
