They were all there, waiting in perfect silence, waiting with a patience which nothing else could inspire, for the golden light of day, and the winging of the unsuspecting birds.
The air was full of cumbersome speeding creatures, winging their way across the danger zone in their unhappy quest of safety.
In a moment a great gray bird sailed up, winging in a wide circle toward Frank's deadly gun.
Time is winging us away To our eternal home; Life is but a winter's day-- A journey to the tomb!
Once a great winged wraith of ghostly white flapped by with a croak, a snowy heron, winging like a shape of Wrath Incarnate, above the crouching man in the grass.
Already distant outline and perspective were hazy, there was purple in the forest, and birds were winging swiftly to the woods.
And at night when the birds were winging to the woods now black against the yellow west, and the lonely lake began to purple, the fires of the rival camps were the single spots of color in the heavy darkness along the shore.
Then, on her silence of wisdom and grief, rose a fast-winging plaint Carried across vasty deeps by the loud-surging breath of the wind.
On the shore the heat is shaking All the golden sands awaking In the cove; And the quaint sand-piper, winging O'er the shallows, ceases singing When I move.
Speed, little dreams, your winging To that land across the sea Where the Dickey-Bird is singing In the Amfalula-Tree!
As a result, they both saw the milky sky split apart for a brief moment and reveal six Nazi Junkers Ju-88's winging along on a course almost parallel with theirs.
Now they were winging their way farther south to the Air Transport Command base at San Fernando on Trinidad.
One of them would be sure to cross the path of the Nazis winging back to their secret base.
Death, wingingby o'erhead, Heard them moan in affright.
He may have been, like some phlegmatic serpent, conscious of a hornet winging his way; but that the insect should have had it in its mind to pounce on him!
Several times I have seen German Taubes driven off by French aviators, and winging a swift flight back to their lines.
The occasional distant roar of a great gun could be heard, and two French aeroplanes, winging home after a reconnaissance over the German lines, hummed overhead.
It was an intimate evening, ending with a tale by one of the wanderers, of Pegasus winging over the ocean on an errand of mercy for a lost lover.
No waking touch on my belly and knees, no chance to comb and dress my hair at leisure, no mirror for dawdling, no winging of gulls.
Poor Moira, years of heartbreaking work and worry had not changed her very much from the girl who had liked to lie in the deep sweet grass of her dear Ireland and let her fancy follow the winging birds into a land of dreams.
She could hear its roar now, like a deep voice drowning the clearer pipe of the winging birds and the shrill of the little grass creatures.
Pole Hill grave and stark Stared at the valley's tidal dark, The Darent glimmered wan; But that eager planet winging on, And singing on, went high Into the deeps and heights of sky.
And when the new day stepped from the same cold East The dead birds lay in the light on the snow-flecked field, Their song and beautiful free winging stilled.
Then the bird, whose brain now contained as large a portion of Hanlon's mind as he could force into it, waswinging at its top speed toward the official residence of Amir, the Ruler.
Hanlon again sought out a bird, and when he was in control of its mind, sent it winging across the roofs and the country-side to the home of the Second-In-Line.
Taking control of its mind, he sent it winging after the speeding car, and by this method was able to follow it as it drove swiftly out into the country.
But then a bird that was flying over that moat at the moment, winging its way straight across it, was apparently making no progress.
I could almost see his dove winging her way over the waters.
There springeth up within me a new want, A perfect yearning for the spiritual, That shaketh from its pinions all the cares And interests of earth, like cleaving dust That clogs its upward winging to the skies.
Of course time was wingingbackwards at such a hideous rate with grandpapa that events, which only seemed of yesterday to me, already grew dim in his memory.
I saw Time wingingbackwards with grandpapa and onwards with me.
