... dressing a congregation of captive eagles, all mentally ruffling their plumage and flapping their pinions, and uttering indignant screams of protest against the injustice of their lot...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...When it does fly a dozen yards or so, its passage is markedby much noisy flapping of the pinions...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Their habit is to rise high above the earth andhang motionless in the atmosphere on outstretched wings, or sail incircles without any perceptible motion of the pinions...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...It soars in circles, beating its pinions onlyoccasionally...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Then it skims on with extended, motionless pinions, andonce more anchors itself to the air...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The corselet of the male is grooved witha wide hollow and he sports a pair of sharp-edged pinions on hisshoulders; on his forehead he plants a horn which vies with that ofthe Spanish Copris...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...This is the Speckled Wood, or Wood Argus Butterfly, a very pretty insect on both sides, and receiving the latter name—Argus, "the many-eyed"—from the rows of rich black eyes that grace its pinions...
W. S. Coleman 「British Butterfiles」
...They buffet him about; theytwist his gay feathers; they dampen his pinions, spiteof his skill in swimming...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...The hawk passed on, brushinghis pinions...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...He came at last, after hours of waiting, dropping from above thetree-tops with a heavy rustling of pinions...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
...The larger pinions atthe ends of the wings have been outlined, regularly by incised lines,and then filled up with color...
Various 「The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1」
...At last, the pteranodon spread its huge brown pinions and took off...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...And again therewere figures high overhead—white, floating figures on pinions of purewhite; their faces, kindly and serene, looked down upon the motleythrong...
Charles Willard Diffin 「The Finding of Haldgren」
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