He has not the same proud and elegant arch of the neck, nor does he put up his wings while swimming, like two snow-white sails.
There, duels are plenty as blackberries; and the editor of a daily paper wings his friend in the morning, and writes a premier Paris in the afternoon, with equal satisfaction and placidity.
Say, is it elves that weave fairy-wings under the moon?
Justice obliges me to forward this after my last on the wings of the wind, as I may say.
Both wings the Cumberland's margin meet, Then, backwkard curving, clasp the rebel seat.
Mispoon, with his splendidwings spread half over the carcass of Ahtik, the dead bull, was rending flesh so ravenously with his powerful beak that Neewa and Miki could hear the sound of it.
He felt himself buried under a mass of wings and bodies, and he began fighting, as he had fought the owls.
Now he was beating his prey down with his wings until the right moment came for him to finish the killing with the terrific stabbing of his beak.
His fourteen pounds of flesh and bone landed with the force of a stone, and Oohoomisew was torn from his hold and flung with a great flutter of wings upon his side.
His wings began humming like a buzz-saw, his pincers opened until they could have taken in a man's finger, and he vibrated on his legs until it looked as though he might be performing some sort of a dance.
With a single lucky slash of her long-fanged jaws, Maheegun literally tore one of Newish's great wings from her body.
In his first savage swoop Oohoomisew, whose greatwings measured five feet from tip to tip, had missed his death-grip by the fraction of an inch.
Kakakew and his Ethiopic horde of scavengers had descended in a cloud, and they were tearing and fighting and beating their wings about Ahtik as if all of them had gone mad.
Half a dozen rice birds rose with a whir ofwings that made Neewa almost upset himself.
The beat of the wings was like the beat of clubs: they drove the breath out of his body, they blinded his senses, yet he continued to tear fiercely with his claws into a fleshless breast.
But, petted, in our climate cold He lived and chattered many a day, Until, with age, from green and gold His wings grew gray.
A parrot from the Spanish Main, Full young, and early caged, came o'er With bright wings to the bleak domain Of Mulla's shore.
Do you mount upon my back and I'll fly up there with you, for wings can fly where never ladder can reach.
It would only bruise my wings for nothing if I tried to fly where the trees are so thick.
The gander stayed hiswings so that Ellen could look.
Why don't you take me up on yourwings and fly out of the window?
No, no; my wings are not strong enough for that, and if I should fall we would all three break our necks.
Illustration] It beat and buffeted them with its wings and hissed so piercingly in their ears that they did not know what was after them.
She offered another chair to the gander and he seated himself in it as gravely as possible, resting his wings on the arms.
We'll dress the gander up like a figure and it shall sit there quietly, and then, when the dwarfs come in to look at it, it can fly up and beat them with its wings so they'll never dare to come back again.
His neck and tail were coiled upon the ground; his wings stretched up the rocky walls on each side of him, and their tips were like tall green trees against the sky.
The gander spread his wings and flew as fast as he could, but when he reached the castle the procession had disappeared.
Quick," and the gander flapped his wings in his excitement.
The gander stretched its great wings up and beat them loudly.
As the little girl was settling herself between his wings they heard a far-off sound of trumpets, and saw a number of people coming out of the castle.
At the time of hatching the Cockroach resembles its parent in all essentials, the wings being the only organs which are developed subsequently, not as entirely new parts, but as extensions of the lateral edges of the thoracic terga.
It is smaller than the common Cockroach, and both sexes have long wings and wing-cases.
But there is nothing as yet to contradict the view that the first Insect-wings were adapted for propulsion in water, and that they were respiratory organs before they became motor.
The true or posteriorwings are attached to the metathorax.
Cockroaches have no resting stage, the wing-covers overlap, and the wings fold up fan-wise.
Illustration] The male is the only small, yellow bird with black wings and tail, with flight that is extremely undulating.
Several other varieties of hummingbirds live in the West and all are tiny--smallest of American birds--and beat their wings so rapidly that the feathers produce a hum.
Red-wings are gregarious, living in flocks and breeding in communities.
As he wings by, his bright colors add a flick of glory to the urban scene.
He spread his great wings and was after Timmy in an instant.
He saw Whitey suddenly sail out on silent wings from that stump and swoop with great claws reaching for some one.
The nearest tree to the one from which Timmy had jumped was so far away that it didn't seem possible any one without wings could reach it without first going to the ground.
Her wings are folded close, and she will not fly away; her breath wafts my weary eyelids like the zephyr born at the gates of Paradise.
The fair dawn slid with crimson ray under the yellow mist; the breath of morning stirred the pendant leaves, and on its wings it bore the tramp of a host.
Well, I shot my arrows at the awful eagles that clash their wings round the Himalayas; great golden eagles as big as elephants, which snap the tall trees by perching on them.
I know not if it is owl or flittermouse; I could fancy it was a black cherub, an infernal cherub of darkness, not with the wings of a bird and the head of a baby, but with the head of a goblin and the wings of a bat.
Man rising on these awful and unbroken wings of stone seems to me more majestic and more mystic than man fluttering for an instant on wings of canvas and sticks of steel.
For wheels are the mark of a man quite as much as wings are the mark of an angel.
She got King Harry and Cannie, but not your humble servant, for I had sprung first in the car, and was flying to New York on the wings of the wind.
She was putting on the costume Sir Walter had told me about--the wasp creation, with the gauzy wings and fluffy flounces.
With their wings they beat the water hurriedly, and sometimes plunge in up to their middle, gradually wading towards the beach, and driving the fish before them into a very narrow channel.
Moreover, his head and neck are more fully clothed with plumage; thewings are plumed, and more perfectly developed; and he is tailless.
Though endowed with more perfect wings than the Ostrich of Africa, he is nevertheless incapable of flight, representing another grade in Nature's slow ascent from the wingless bird to the bird possessed of full powers of flight.
The male is of a glossy black, with white on the wings and tail; the female wears an uniformly dusky livery.
They found him standing erect, and flapping his wings in order to fly away.
Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of his wings reaching the ear as he disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around!
A large patch of dull white occupies the top of the head; the quill-feathers, both of the wings and tail, are of a dusty black.
His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result.
The chase of this bird is exceedingly laborious, for though he does not fly he skims the ground, and his wings impel him forward with a velocity which distances the swiftest horse.
So they left the island, and on the wings of a favouring breeze bore away for Iceland.
This lure was simply a pair of the wings of a gull, which one waved above his head, while the other prepared to fire right and left.
Then the grim raven Death, who had been hovering over the seemingly doomed ship, flapped his ragged wings and flew slowly away.
He had been a clever village boy whom Phil's grandfather had taken under his wing some forty years ago, and the type of clever village boy who does not need sheltering wings for long.
The sun made the wingsof the planes overhead shimmer with silver and gold under a fleckless sky.
For, scream and beat his wings as he might, the bird could not dislodge the dog.
The eagle could not thrash Tom Jonah with his wings to any purpose; nor could he fix his talons in the dog, or spear him with his beak, while they both were in the air.
They could not be held by wires as Tess was, for their wings were made to vibrate slowly all through the scene.
Its great wings relaxed and it tumbled to the earth.
The eagle raised his wings slowly; they quivered and he stretched his neck around so that he could glare again at the trembling little girl.
They bounce and bump from side to side and if you scare them they flap there wings and try to make a pass at singing which is pore work.
Its wings beat the air mightily, and it rose several feet from the ground, carrying Tom Jonah with it!
Innocent Delight went up the steps and into the wings with the others, as in a dream.
There were four wings to the building, four doors leading into the laboratory, and he had inspected but one.
Her father put his arm round her, as if to assure himself there were no wings in the case.
You are to be an angel, Daisy," Theresa repeated, "with wonderful wings made of gauze on a light frame of whalebone.
Daisy, your wings didn't look a bit like real wings " said Jane Linwood.
By a skilful placing and shielding of the lamps, the lights were thrown broadly where they ought to be, on faces and draperies, leaving the gauze wings of the angel in such obscurity that they just showed as it was desired they should.
Mrs. Sandford was sure that the angel's wings would make a good representation, which Daisy was slow to believe; near by, they looked so very like gauze and pasteboard!
Let us have your vote, my angel; I will address you in your prospective character; will you put on your wings at once?
I don't see, Daisy, how you will manage those queer wings of yours," Nora resumed.
He remarks that in birds of the oceanic islands "not persecuted by any enemies, the reduction of their wings has probably been caused by gradual disuse.
Well, to-day, when I came into this room again, it seemed as if two black wings shut out the sunlight; and I was afraid.
She had pushed the heavy wings of hair up from her forehead, and this, together with her extreme pallor, gave her face a look of febrile intensity.
After the laying, he takes each female in turn and secures her by a pin passed through the wings to a folded corner of the little cloth, where are grouped some hundreds of eggs which she has laid.
It has hardly dried itself and developed its wingswhen the males and females pair for several hours.
Very soon the eyelids close again, and generally death comes without the animal changing its place, or without any struggle, except at times a slight movement of the wings for a few seconds.
Colin now contended that the hens had taken splenic fever not because they had been subjected to a chilling process, but because, so as to keep them in the water, the poor creatures had had their wings and feet tied to planks.
The child had wings and would want to fly far and free with them, unless he was mightily mistaken in his reading of her.
As Hempel had shrewdly perceived she was conscious of having wings and desirous of flying far and free with them ere she came to pause.
Their wings were strong enough now to make strange flights.
He was almost in a panic lest some other manager should likewise have gotten wind of this Rosalind and be lurking in the wings even now to pounce upon his own legitimate prey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
