“She had to go to the hospital wing,” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Across the tent, Rhaegal unfolded green wings to flap and flutter a half foot before thumping to the carpet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They saw the flash and heard the sharp rattle of the aircraft’s machine guns in the dark, and bullets raked the wings of their Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The increasing rain pulls stray feathers from her wings and pins them to the mud below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I gave my suit and jacket and striped shirts and club ties and wing tips to a young guy who was looking for work. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not to need wings because you don’t need to fly away from your country? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Standing there by that Harvard window, I silendy vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an arrogant, trespassing man astride a winged metal beast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had been hastily built and then rooms and floors and wings and decorations had been added on in every which manner, reflecting too many opinions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird’s wings slowed as if it were flying through water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He flew from tall tree to the tallest, spread his wings, and soared far from Frightful’s Mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A flock of gulls swoops down to the breakers, wings outspread, crying. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A moment later I come across the source of the odor: a plastic garbage bag filled with feathers, down, and the severed wings of several birds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful’s wings cut circles in the wind that sped her southeast toward the ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She folded her wings around me in a giant feathery hug, and I tolerated it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lifting her wings, she walked into a square, moldy room and jumped up onto a rusted bell lying on its side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She instantly pulled deeply on her wings and sped back. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have a seat. You look like the zopilotes, those nasty good-for-nothing vultures, beat you up and plucked every feather off your pretty wings.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t in any of the bathrooms or in the hospital wing... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gideon had worked for a time in a freight yard in Springfield, Illinois, and Miss Leeds, the lady in the office, had taken me under her wing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Between the echoing blasts of fireworks, I discerned a flapping sound like the unfurling of membranous wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frightful winged out of the door and flew to a limb, where she tried to perch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uncrossed his wings and made a real chirp. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His airplane shook as a missile leapt off the wing, riding a trail of flame. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” Marco says, fiddling with his notebook, running his fingers over the pages that had been wings only minutes before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If I grabbed one’s wings, I could get its jaws to clamp on my fingers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The raven spread its wings, leapt into the air, and flapped noisily across the room to land on the table beside him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had joined some fringe group of the far right wing that was making her belligerent and hostile. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shutter had been pulled aside from the window of the large bedroom in the west wing, and someone was standing there, looking down upon the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The winged goddesses spiraled above, preparing for another sweeping attack, and Brer kicked high into the air, trying to close off the hole the monster had made in the Thicket’s wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Place her on your white pillow, where her red-and-black wings will stand out. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He just stood there, wings out, and she realized he was making it easier for her to put the backpack on. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The pigeon tucked its head under its wing and began to tremble. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wheel on that side had buckled, so the plane sat at a crazy angle, the opposite wing high in the air. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Daedalus and his son froze, their metal wings glimmering on their backs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There he lived, and watched the western sky often, and kept his wizard’s ear tuned for the sound of scaly wings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gimpy holds his elbows out as he rolls the dough, like a bird’s wings, but Frank keeps his arms close to his sides. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She spread her wings menacingly and let out her most ferocious caw. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What’s the wing got to do with the merry-go-round?” he asked. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hit the ground, spreading his wings and tail to cushion his fall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The winged man from the ice cream stand was leaning against a nearby column, casually tossing a small bronze hoop in the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And there in all his glory was Petey, or Belle, stretched wide on his twig, enormous wings filling his jar. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I am so sorry about your wing. And, alas, I have no skills to heal it. But my wife. Ethyne.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A fairy with lustrous silver wings and short blue hair alighted in front of Kendra. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

May’s arms were crossed over her chest, wings folded in on themselves, a pose I did not find flattering. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goose beat his great wings, raising a flurry of snow as he landed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that every plane has a red light on the left wing and a green light on the right for navigation?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you not happy? Would you have the moon too, as Kali would have wings?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wings were twice as tall is she was, and—she glanced back, frightened now, over her shoulder as she fled—they had powerful legs: no wonder they had moved so fast on the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was like a creature awakening from sleep, and when it moved—sinuous, liquid—and shook open its massive wings, a bone-deep terror stirred in all the warriors. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I cover my face, then flap and twirl them together so they flutter like a butterfly's wings. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Soon her fingers began to itch for the feel of cocoons, her eyes to dart about for the flutter of wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Holly primed the wings’ motor, pulling the starter cord over her shoulder. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We found her bobbing in the waves, struggling to keep her head above water, one wing flapping, the other broken looking. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The hair on her arms rose, and she almost stumbled into the nearest table as she waited for something—a hand; a wing; a gaping, fanged mouth—to appear and grab her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He also described the structure of feathers, the nature of a butterfly’s wing and the compound eye of the fly, among many observations of the living world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their bodies became a collective, a tapestry of wing and wind that fluttered with life, transforming into the figure of a young woman with dark hair and dark eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fairies he knew had looked different, smaller but stronger, with fair blue skin and four shimmering wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It stretched into a three-foot-long wooden staff with dove wings sprouting out the top. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are several that look alike to the naked eye, and you can’t know what you’ve got until it emerges as the winged imago.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But still, I will try. She is in the wings now, waiting for her cue. Let us set the stage for her arrival ” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I cannot fly, anyway, until the numbness leaves my wing.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked away from him and carried the purchases back to Madam’s house, wings abuzz in my ears. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queer rasping call of the blackbird rose from the grass, and now and then they caught the flash of scarlet on the glossy black wings. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Because I want to be alone, I tell Pop that I’m going out for hot wings with the team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were covered in molting feathers, and their wings were tipped with tiny, shriveled hands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Clearly, everyone on this wing has just had “fine” sex. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I let the flapping of wings and the squawking and the pecking and the prodding continue, relaxing one muscle at a time, resigning myself to becoming a pecked carcass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then the thing that faced him changed utterly, spreading out to either side as if it opened enormous thin wings, and it writhed, and swelled, and shrank again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Swinging down the valley on long pointed wings was a large bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful’s left wing was pushed from the wire. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I swear to God, that kid should wear a protective rubber bumper and possibly water wings. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The shelves closed in on the car like a monster insect folding in its wings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In one, they appear to me in baby form, wrapped in saris of pearl-hued silk and winged. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shannon Pushcart was the third wing, and the fries—the extra-salty add-on—was Carlos Greene. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But now fears came swarming about my head like the black flying ants after a storm, and I cowered from the beat of their wings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on,” he said, “do you still want to steal the wing? Don't you get it? Scipio has never done a break-in in his life!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was that electricity again, except this time the hornets had bilious wings because they swarmed, with texture and speed, from my heart down to my groin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With this sad prediction the owl stepped through his doorway, spread his great wings and was gone, soaring silently downward into the shadowy woods below. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m winging it. I don’t want to hurt you. I want to save you. Please, let me do this. Let me save you.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he whimpered for Andeg, who sat high up in the roof beams, head underneath his wing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful, my heart leaped—metal wings constructed from thousands of interlocking bronze feathers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His tufts of black hair stuck up in curls like baby bat wings. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Baruch seemed younger, as Balthamos had said he was, and was more powerfully built, his wings snow-white and massive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Balthamos nodded and raised his wings to shake off the moisture. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her heavy wings beat clumsily, and she only just made the turn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ren’s pair of gold winged headphones are lying on the desk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even see the tips of each wing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Daddy!” the little girl in the wing chair said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are different kinds of wings, the crow said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there, Galya said, “I looked behind and saw that all were flying wing tip to wing tip. So Klava said: ‘Just you look at them; they’re flying like in an air show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For suddenly, up out of a wash ahead rose a flurry of flapping wings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the gander opened his strong wings and beat the air with them to show his power. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He shook the raven off, and it flapped its wings and flew to the window, where it sat watching as Mormont drew a roll of paper from his belt and handed it to Jon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What if I were to come at night, when he’s on duty alone — though he would never be allowed such solitude — and permit him beyond my white wings? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the ideographs lifted their feet, stretched out their wings, and flew like blackbirds; the dots were their eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strove with their voices, feeling themselves to be under a black wing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atop his head rested a smooth metal helmet with metal wings on either side. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The pigeon flopped onto its back and draped one wing dramatically over its beak. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The water was going every which way beneath them, and the wind was a storm blowing so bad, they could hardly control their wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The light startled the creatures, and one of them took to the air, its wings whirring heavily through the dust. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They flitted around, their wings flapping against the wiry walls, cheeping their blue heads off. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nico and he were wandering along the esplanade when Jason spotted the guy with wings buying an ice cream bar from a street cart. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a hand-embroidered blue dress, her brown hair in a big pompadour, and had on a little blue hat with white bird wings—the same hat Aunt Loma tried to buy that time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Toby spun, the piece of wing skittering across the clearing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Next morning, filled with his plan, he had believed it was the fluttering wings of his father’s ba that had half-waked him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Its lovely wings flapped, and the gentle waves of air it created caressed Nathan’s eyelids. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A busy flutter of wings announced the mother sparrow’s arrival. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were like humans, but winged, and much taller, and, as they were naked, the witch could see that three of them were male, two female. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he threw the chicken wing at me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Even after Sandy leaves, I stay standing where I am, watching the dragonflies and their wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The moth’s wings rose and fell, but he wasn’t looking at the moth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mother would order me to nip their prickly wings while she cooked pap. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple, stupid, brutal curiosity, the same thing that motivates boys to see what flies might look like without their wings. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger trickled drop after drop into her mouth until she sat up and feebly beat her wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If any Muggle is unwise enough to confide in another that he has spotted a Hippogriff winging its way north, he is generally believed to be drunk or a ‘loony’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay’s wing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyelashes tremble like the wings of tiny insects. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My woolen wings fluttered and flapped at the ends of my arms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d seen roosters chase hens, catch up, climb on top of them, and dig sharp beaks into the hen’s head as she cackled and screeched and he flapped his wings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very peaceful and quiet: a chickadee sang his poignant little piece for them, and the inevitable whisky-jack arrived on soundless wings to pick up cooky crumbs from within a few feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wing spun through the air, bounced off the merman, and landed with a loud thump on the platform. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra had to stop herself crying out, and Pantalaimon fluttered his wings so sharply that the other girls noticed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

For her class picture, she wore her hair in a flip like Gidget and a nurse’s cap that looked like white dove wings. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kira knew that “the wing” was where her own quarters were. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I did sort of wing that. I’m glad it turned out okay.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Or the dust will come off its wings, and then it can’t fly.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she’d always wished she had. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From above, the flap of wings made Aru rear back and shout, “Stay back, Sleeper, I’m armed and dangerous!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

High above the Delhi Bridge, Frightful screamed and spiraled, her pointed wings cutting frantic patterns in the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his wings around them and together they fell, not toward the ground but away, into the depths of the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She perched on a chair at the back and ate fried chicken wings with her fingers, her eyes on the TV screen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They hooked a left at the next wing and found chaos. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And all these birds rose in the air, alarmed and confused by this new anger, beating their black wings, flying just above, waiting for the noise to stop. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a moment to lose, the ladies tucked their wings close and knifed toward the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Glimpses of white feathers, of wings etched against stars. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The streaks of sun caught on the airplane wings blind me so I can’t see her face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wings could be warped in the opposite way, of course, so that the aeroplane would bank to the left. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretches his blinding white wings and breathes out fire. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raven falls to the ground, its wings bent and broken. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I scroll through butterfly images, each wing made of fragments of photographs and then hand-dyed in rich pigments until the photographs are unrecognizable. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The other engineer was Virginia native Clarence Douglas, who would operate one of the two side-directed waist guns, behind the wings. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes—they bath themselves and comb their wings with their claws. And when they have done that they fly three times round the head of the Bird Woman and then they settle.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

While most of the doves are only dazed from the fall, one clearly has a broken wing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The crowd was blurry and colorful around her—someone’s tutu and butterfly wings, a person with a unicorn head, Benjamin Franklin, and a group of people with neon-colored wigs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was, instead, being given a sky-ride on the end of a rope by a large winged sow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was staring at a picture of three cherubim—just heads, curly-haired, limpid-eyed, with wings about the size of pigeons’ wings growing out of where their necks would be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull’s wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nut- brown skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the coats of arms, the winged death’s heads, on the slate stones about him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He alighted on the aerie, scattering the seeds of the blazing-star flowers with the blast of air from his wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A murder of ravens erupted from the hillside, screaming their sharp cries, black wings beating above a white world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been murdered in an iridescent green gown jeweled with jade and beetle wings, and she’d looked enough like Sarai that the visions of her body were like seeing a prophecy of her own death. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She opened her wings and flew from Sam’s fist. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a navy blue jogging outfit with winged Reeboks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like wings, my feet fly me to Daddy’s door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A large black wasp with scarlet wings ran over the sand, searching for the spiders that were its prey. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott had gnawed silently on a chicken wing while Mom ate her salad, but once she got up and approached the appetizer bar, he dropped the bone onto his plate. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Lady faced the wind, lifted her wings, and was airborne. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The creature’s wings were crushed flat against its body at first, but soon they opened, and Doon saw what his green worm had become: a moth with light brown wings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As they made their way toward the street cart, Jason worried that this winged dude might be a son of Boreas the North Wind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a swirl of lunging leathery wings, and a malevolent yowk-yowk-yowk resounding in the snowy courtyard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pet’s wings came off its shoulders and neck, and light poured down its throat, piercing in strength. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The wings had been hacked off and tossed aside in a heap. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The guard moved on toward the Egyptian wing to cover the rest of his tour. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a hot day in early July, Duchess sat at the edge of the aerie, her wings lifted to keep her cool. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The eagle flapped its wings hard, creating a wind so strong it almost knocked the gods over, and it dropped the meat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The bats were extending and folding their wings, unsure of what to do. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The patrolman glanced up and saw, framed against the starlit sky, two winged silhouettes— the baby owl’s parents, anxiously circling their frightened fledgling. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they must see is the white wings only, a scrap of face, my chin and part of my mouth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esme, water wings and all, came trotting along the pool’s edge to them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Wilkins found an X-ray diffraction machine in the chemistry department and housed it—“in solitary splendor”—in a lead-lined room under the embankment wing, just below the level of the neighboring river Thames. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zeus was partying with satyrs, and Hermes was flying through the air on his winged sandals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And finally, what felt like a full couple of minutes later, the pteranodon’s torso and giant wings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bongo bent forward, wings spread, in a sort of bow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The crows cawed and wheeled and beat their shiny black wings against the wind-whipped clouds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of her hands were covered with small brown spots the size of raisins, and her shiny nails looked like the wings of red beetles. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We eat real good for the first two weeks: turkey wings, steaks, and whole chickens from the bodega. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A Communist had cut a wisp of black paper into a hero with sleeves like butterflies’ wings and with tassels and flags, which fluttered when you breathed on him. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

First the death of the man in the blue wings. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He limbered his wings and said, “It’s not really singing, you know—” “Singing, playing—who cares, as long as it doesn’t sound like Harry,” said Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heel slipped, the edge of the cliff crumbled, and the- great Polyphemus made chicken wing motions that did nothing to help him fly as he tumbled into the chasm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their dark pointed wings were erased from the sky as if they had sensed her deadly purpose. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember Luke’s winged shoes? I wonder if they’re still down here somewhere.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And a big white bird—a peace dove—spreads its wings from end to end. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had vampire nightmares; every night the fangs grew longer, and my angel wings turned pointed and black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time a raven would fly overhead, big black wings slapping against the cold air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tornait flew to the top of the barrel, screaming his alarm cry and beating his wings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a long wing feather into his beak and slowly preened himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It flapped its gray wings in the red mud, twisting and flailing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The rockets on my wing in Korea were on a short track that got them off straight.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mews had a circular central hub with eight wings radiating in each direction so it looked like a compass rose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still, when she held a pupa—or “date pit,” as she called it—with its outline of tiny wings beneath the protective shell, she felt the creature stirring within. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as Father’s carriage disappeared from view, Mum Olga swallowed her tears and directed a manservant to transfer my belongings to a room in the servants’ wing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” says Uncle Al from the depths of a winged chair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A great stone monster with wide-spread wings stood with its mouth open and you could still see a bit of piping at the back of its mouth, out of which the water used to pour. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I go to the wings and grip the heavy green velvet curtain until I feel the fibers crush in my fist. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Or when she was gathering firewood, she would catch sight of that winged creature again, flying high against icicles hanging like teeth from a cavernous ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And if I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can’t grow wings,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A dozen boys were loafing there on the grass after dinner, and a kitchen rattle from the wing of one of the buildings accompanied their talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade wing was on the opposite end of the building from the art room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Others sported sigils he did not know; broken lance, green viper, burning tower, winged chalice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He capered around in his stall, his black wings buffeting the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a loud ringing in my ears, and I expected the wings of death to gather me up and take me with the owl. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wings of his nostrils flared and quivered like an outraged priest’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had pictured us taking off to the United States of America, angel wings on our shoulders. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It's possible that some of the rooms were occupied by regular people, down on their luck, but my wing was full of the broken, and I was at home among them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had heard that pigeons were dirty, filthy, nothing more than rats with wings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In our wing there is only one night sister, perhaps she has something to do in one of the other rooms. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, turning into the wind, suddenly they would all be in the air together, fourteen or forty at a time, with wide wings scooping the blackness and a cry of triumph in their throats. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also claimed you didn’t need patterns to sew, you could get creative and wing it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t the marble dragons bite her in the neck and the winged lions chase her out of their city? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the sky tonight would be alive with the rustling of the Angel of Death’s wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of the ship that would take her, a magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings, cutting across the violent sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her elbows stuck out like wings, and a huge white enameled tub occupied the space above her head, somewhat miraculously holding steady while her head moved in quick jerks to the right and left. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the god of Creativity flew by and brushed me with his wing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A fly stirred its wings softly in his ear. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had fiery red hair and iridescent dragonfly wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But then the winged thing turned out to be Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him how the stewardess gave us wings to pin to our blouses and shirts and told Mama we were beautiful and well behaved. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The west wing bunks were similar to those I had left be hind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t trust this weird god with the hoop and the wings and the basket of fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly its wings lift and fall, huge arcs rise and collapse, rise and collapse, up and down, up and down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Helmuth clasps his hands on top of his head, walks, elbows sticking out like wings. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The geese furiously flapped and pecked and wrapped their wings around the robot faces, clinging to the RECOs like feathery masks, distracting them, blinding them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He must like my cooking too much to get rid of me,” Mandy told me over cold chicken wings and warm bread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hear a tremoring, a rush of flapping wings. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If I had wings, I would want to fly too, Dany thought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sky-blue wings splashed with yellow and white dots flapped slowly before the insect took off to flutter elsewhere. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

An iridescent hummingbird hung suspended over the pie tin, wings a faint blur. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was the man who had given me wings—to go places, to do things I otherwise never would have dreamed of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brand fly zoomed at my face, but just before it landed, a glob of sap splattered on its wings and it crashed in a tailspin. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The doors spread open like bird's wings, and Max and I bolt through them, uncaged. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With a flutter of wings, Margalo rose into the sky, carrying Stuart along, and together they flew out over the ocean and headed toward home. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wooden frame of the right wings snapped in a dozen places. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Mack wings buffeted her round the head, and a scream of fury cut the indigo air, and suddenly the visions were gone, ripped away, and Dany's gasp turned to horror. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The waving goddess stood outlined by the smoking metal wing as if she were a model in a showroom of plane wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The flanks of a great cat, the neck and heavy hump of a bull, wings as sharp and vicious as the wings of the great seraph, though on a smaller scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With a panicked rustle of feathers and probably a lot of squawking, the bird flapped its wings and scuttled away. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

From this room a new wing for one of the younger families would grow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird peered down at him with those beady black eyes, ruffling its wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘You asked how do I know that the son of Denethor is dead. Tidings of death have many wings. Night oft brings news to near kindred, ’tis said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. I accidentally broke this swallow’s wing,” the man said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Somehow I was glad my rooms were in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the bubble the hawk snapped its wings and shot south. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two bats required stitches on torn wings and, though they made a great effort to remain still while Solovet slid the needle in and out of their skin, the process was clearly agonizing for them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra leaped up, and Pantalaimon became a seagull at once, eager to stretch his wings in the open. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Scatcherd stands at the front of the car, holding on to two leather seat backs, the arms of her black cape draping like the wings of a crow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They beat their wings at her face and hair, the stream of them parting around her like a river around a rock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The winged shapes wheeled, and stooped swiftly down, speeding back to Mordor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My heart thumps against my rib cage like it has wings. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The wing's white paint was faded and cracked, just like the wing in the Conte's photograph. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Full-Scale Tunnel, the linchpin of the lab’s World War II drag cleanup work, continued to test everything from low-speed aircraft designed with delta wings to helicopters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Same one that came to the funeral, rested on the casket, and fluttered its wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Wherever he came men’s hearts would lift again, and the winged shadows pass from memory. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was bright gold and had little fluttering silver wings. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I didn't want his hand anywhere near me, but it was stuck there, glued to the spot where wings would sprout if I had them—I wanted them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After eating breakfast and having another stretch, he tested his wings against each other, like a violinist making sure that his violin is in tune. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chased mice, tried to pounce on them, swept them away with his wings, even caught a few and pecked them sharply, as though to warn them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The chariot whirred into motion, but the right wheel stayed in place, so Triptolemus. spun in circles, the chariot beating its wings and bouncing up and down like a defective merry-go-round. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve been witness to more awfulness than wings being torn or my person insulted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When their wings began to feather out, I cut them again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off go the numbers, winging out across rooftops, across the sea, flying to who knows what destinations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time they were four weeks old, they were almost full-grown and testing their wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Piper saw the tip of a black wing, and Percy began to turn toward the sound. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

High above them she stalled out and fell, landing in a treetop, her wings spread across leaves and twigs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A vast winged shape passed over the moon like a black cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For the flyboys of the air corps, airplanes were mechanisms for transporting troops and supplies to combat zones, armed wings for pursuing enemies, sky-high launching pads for ship-sinking bombs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was lying in the dark hospital wing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Eyes tearing, her shoulders shudder like the wings of a baby bird. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her left wing had a long rip that oozed blood. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if, when she imagines having wings, she pictures herself flying up into the sky and away from all this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘If I said I wanted to dream that I was in a flying bathtub with silver wings, could you make me dream it?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alby looked like someone had just told him he could grow wings and fly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

None of the humans felt the featherlight feet of winged creatures alighting on their brows and cheekbones, much less the smooth intrusion of the Muse of Nightmares into their minds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The butterfly fell out of its glass box; one wing was crushed under a bottle of glass beads. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arms, like wings, spread out, but they fail to send me soaring. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A swashbuckling adventurer wearing armor and a winged helmet stood with a glowing blue sword raised over his head, preparing to strike a troll cowering before him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Already he was pointing at a butterfly, gleeful at the bright spotted orange of its wings in the dim forest light. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two wings and slightly uneven black eyes had been painted on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Dragon wings,” he said, and slipped into them like sleeves. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes were pulsating in hectic desperation, flapping like bat’s wings, as the many tall policemen seized him by the arms and legs and lifted him up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Not ten minutes into the game, a Lightning player settled a pass on the wing and sprinted down the line past Kanue and into open space. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

This time her savior was an eagle, who poised on his great wings beside her, seized the flask from her with his beak and brought it back to her full of the black water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined it circling end over end, its pages fluttering like wings, until it struck, oh, say, Deacon Hurd, just on the side of his nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Because my father left when I was three, I have no idea what a father is supposed to do, so I’m winging it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She waited for this command, sculling her wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought one miserable winged rat had so many colors? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She closed her wings to her body and pulled her tail feathers together one upon the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Frantic winged insects flitted around the electric bulb. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a minute hummingbird, its bronze-feathered wings moving too fast for her to see. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked through the little hole in the stage wings again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of my childhood memories rush in: I'm standing in the wings, watching Papa take his viola from the case, rosin the bow and begin to tune among the chatter, the dinner plans, the gossip. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But a second later, he was up again, streaking through the tall corn, dragging a broken wing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think of what his life would have been like with this other family, rooting him to the ground, sheltering him in their wings. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ground crew, caps pulled low and faces hidden in the wing’s shadow, helped the passenger in and fastened her harness. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So I became a student once again, and learned about what keeps satellites in orbit, and about how weightlessness affects the human body, and about how to fly machines without wings. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wings sprouted from their backs—small bat wings, which glinted like brass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It didn’t have black wings, a whip made out of stars, and a shadowy chariot pulled by vampire horses. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That was fitting; his shield and surcoat showed a pig with wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Laila watched its wings catch glints of sunlight as it buzzed from one blade of grass to another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Edward looked over his shoulder and there they were, the most magnificent wings he had ever seen, orange and red and blue and yellow. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

As they stood side by side a crane rose slowly from the beach, with a graceful lift of its great wings, and they followed its flight, a leisurely line of white against the dark trees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Fox wings,” Lazlo told her, as though she might have known. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With a rush of wings and paws, the celestial mounts disappeared, called back to the deities they served. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked up in time to see white wings hanging from above in the quick flash of the opened door. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Resting my hands on my belly now, I could feel the butterfly wings start to flutter again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A paper raven swooped across the room, slicing its wing across Antain’s cheek, cutting it open, letting him bleed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fledge glided down, spread out his four legs, closed his wings, and landed cantering. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the singers streamed backstage through the wings, Mrs. Atanabi made her way around the front of the stage to wait for Mr. Tushman to introduce her, and we took our positions. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Now I will do your wings, and give mine a chance to set properly. Come!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A soaking bumblebee crawled over a thistle bloom, vibrated its wings for a few seconds and then flew away down the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were men and boys, but most were women and girls, their wraps still in beautiful colors, undone and spread along the ground like butterfly wings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let it go, feeling its wings brush against her fingers before it bobbed away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Holly strapped on the wings, stepping into the outside world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Under the house, hens cackled softly, while the flapping of wings above sounded like secret applause. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instantly, eight winged creatures appeared on the screen, one stationed in front of each player. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had short wings and a fat, stubby fuselage with a huge engine in front. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Give a fairy a pair of wings and he thinks he’s God’s gift to women. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Frozen gryphons stuck out of the ground like feathery Popsicle sticks, their wings still spread, beaks open, eyes wide with surprise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Were they given the wings by the Dragon King?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, however, was as gray and dusty as moth wings, and her sagging wrinkled skin almost hung off her face like a worn leather sack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Communist Party had secretly reconstituted itself underground and was now considering forming its own military wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both girls look at him as if he has sprouted wings. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach—could not even see—but which filled the valleys of the mind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fluttered over to Luxa and wrapped her good wing around the girl. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wing sprang back softly from his mouth as he gazed transfixed at the scene before him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could think his father’s ba sometimes fluttered out of the tomb by night on its little bird wings and came to see if all was well with him... The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Percy pointed east, where a black winged shape was spiraling toward them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The strings of the violin, the part that made the sound, was the edge of his wing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I did not speak to her, I went down the stairs blindly, and turned the corner and pushed through the door that led to my own rooms in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Something huge flapped overhead, and Tyrion glanced up in time to see the sail taking wing, with two men still dangling from the lines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I landed on the wing of an old-fashioned silver airplane, which pitched and almost spilled me to the floor, three stories below. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The seated ones were large teapots, their spouts tucked under their wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They nip at my fingertips and press against my body, wings sliding across the back of my neck, feet tearing at my hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

One of the ground staff wrote the letter for her, perching on the wing of Lilya’s plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, he sprinted toward the pond, beat his wings, and flew away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On “one” I heard the unmistakable flap of wings and then saw Miss Peregrine’s head—her human head—pop up from behind the sheet to even more uproarious applause. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The toll collector had a couple of knickknacks littered across the surface: a unicorn with its wings outstretched and a tiny clay bear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was the size of a winged pecan. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The dove tested its wings with a couple of flaps, then soared away in a blinding flurry of white. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel had feathers, she had wings, she had beautiful borrowed feet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The way he makes the shavings flutter down into thin little pieces of wood that look like curly wings. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bull screamed at an unwhiskered man who clambered off the wing of his plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Reverend Deal moved into his sermon, the hands of die women unfolded like pairs of raven’s wings and flew high above their hats in the air. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His dæmon, gliding and circling above, tipped her wings and sped to the ravine on a billowing updraft. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack, being my assignment operator, my wing, was seeing whatever Hoagland let him, which was likely everything. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her there was motion: the fluttering of wings, the darting shape of another creature. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blackjack folded his wings and plummeted toward the boat like a black comet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I pretended I hadn't heard and walked out of the lounge to the end of the next wing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I took a stick from my pocket and poked at the wing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

More and more gathered on his back, and a moment later, a pair of huge golden wings unfurled and flapped gently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The great insect landed at once, its red and yellow gleaming like enamel, and its filmy wings stiff and still on either side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the Qur’an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The winged guy. Where do you think those stairs lead?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then he thought she looked like an angel resting with her wings spread out behind her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Poor things—they broke their necks against my wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pe-2 had twin tails and twin engines, one engine on each wing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Across his white-enameled helm, the black bat of his House spread its wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

High above Sam they opened their wings and flew in tandem down the mountain over the river, up into the clouds and back to Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dark and emotive, they suggested a trace of ex-otic blood in his heritage—Greek, maybe, or Chippewa—and conveyed a vulnerability that made Westerberg want to take the kid under his wing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord Commander reached up to pinch its beak shut, but the raven hopped up on his head, fluttered its wings, and flew across the chamber to light above a window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our plane, a giant silver bullet with wings awaits us at the gate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right, also on the wing, was an engine which powered the two propellers by a gear-and-sprocket system like the one on a bicycle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on it in the blink of an eye, grabbing a wing as the pigeon flapped and fluttered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The susurration of their wings lulls me, I guess. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can stare, here, look around me, there are no white wings to keep me from it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fairy with hummingbird wings was drinking from her cupped hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I holler, my arms flapping up and down like wings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in one of the lobby’s yellow wing chairs, pretending to do homework, and waited for her to pass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He beat his wings again, sending up a choking storm of scarlet sand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It says: “Away! Now spread your wings and fly.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Often silent, sometimes swearing, always pointedly looking at me, neck feathers ruffled, wings half out, beak extended. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden screeching cry, and a great flapping of wings, like wooden clappers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“This is the recovery wing,” explained the nurse. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, Rose fell in love with a white horse with silver wings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

With fear giving her speed, she ran along the narrow trail, her dæmon as an owl on silent wings beside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His body was too big and his wings were too small. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fry’s rooms were in the west wing of the building, not very far from where the senators and representatives met. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Two, Agent Fiona is definitely cool enough to pull off a winged chariot. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His standard showed a crow in flight, its black wings spread wide against a storm-green sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Celia came bursting through the wings just as Dimple moved out of the way. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It stretched its wings as he looked down at it, and bared its minuscule fangs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone called them Las Mariposas, the Butterflies, because they had put wings on all our hearts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Seasoned researchers took the male upstarts under their wings, initiating them into their guild over lunchtime conversations in the cafeteria and in after-hours men-only smokers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And this, the white wings hanging in her house, wasn’t strange at all. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little girl and she had on a real pretty blue dress and big, yellow wings and something tied around her head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds flap their wings, probably to go somewhere quieter. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Harry was faster than Higgs — he could see the little round ball, wings fluttering, darting up ahead — he put on an extra spurt of speed — WHAM! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I felt an overwhelming urge to sprout wings and fly off. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dragging his wing through the feathers that cover the ground, he heads for the face, he is limping toward the face when the second blast comes— Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

This entire wing of the prison, they said, held Katrina prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After her speech, Woodhull stepped off the stage and listened from the wings to Judge A.G.W. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I held her wings to her body as her flapping was noisy to me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wings stretched twenty feet from tip to tip, black as jet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread his wings and flew away, higher and higher. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. or Mrs. Pace swooped down flapping parental wings, he was getting precisely what he wanted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Unexpected as always, happiness flapped through, brushing them with its soft wing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jackdaw became so embarrassed that it hid its head under its wing as if it were going to sleep. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He can now see that it is, indeed, his own journal, open to a page with a card pasted onto it, printed with winged creatures crawling over a spoked wheel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s also a winged pterodactyl that appears once in a while to wreak havoc. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She raised her hand and he settled on it, his long, transparent wings vibrating. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Great dark wings were spreading out from the alcove. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It rises, a thrashing of wings, up through her trachea—until Yo retches. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When Blue Bill recovered his senses, Perry put him into a carrying cage and covered it with a blanket so that he couldn’t see and beat his wings to get free. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You and I had just better stay in the hemlock tree until Frightful gets this kid on wing and out of here, or someone is going to get killed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, there were very few birds left, and these few took wing for the hills. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, if a butterfly flaps its wings, it might create just enough wind to throw off a computer’s long-range weather predictions. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

When he came a little closer they saw that it was Lee, his elbows waving like wings, his queue lashing about like a snake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black wings flurried and black dragon-blood dropped in thick drops into the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon flapped its wings and flew up to Melina’s shoulder, out of Miss Peregrine’s reach. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He leapt into the sky in the form of an eagle even huger and mightier than any he had been before, and he began to beat his wings and flew, faster and ever-faster, toward Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Three jets with their wings folded were parked like maimed insects awaiting rebirth among the tools and oils of the men who swarmed over the broken-open jet in the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo didn’t have any idea what this meant, but it seemed to infuriate the Spelling Bee, who flew down and knocked off the Humbug’s hat with his wing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

After running away from home, she’d spent a few weeks surviving on her own, living in alleyways and hiding from monsters until Thalia and Luke took her under their wings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its wings were like the sails of a small ship, each feather as broad as a cutlass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fire beat at her back with hot red wings as she fled the burning bam. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The U-2's huge wings generated so much lift that the plane resisted landing; pilots had to stall the engines just above the runway in the final moments before touchdown. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The claws fastened on his leg and the wing elbows battered his head on either side. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon she held her wings straight out to glide and save energy. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Meggie thought they looked like birds hunching their heads down beneath their wings in case someone might knock them off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The swan stretched his wings out as far as they would go. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the storm, flying so low she was afraid her wing might touch the ground if she turned, Zoya found herself over a German camp instead of the Soviet one she’d been heading for. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The young falcon was running to the rabbit with outstretched wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Early wildflowers were in bloom, and lavender butterflies with lacy-patterned wings darted from one to the next. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Downward they swooped, their great black wings driving them ever faster. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He had heard her words, heard them over and over again during the night hours in the hospital wing while he lay awake, staring at the strips of moonlight on the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fledge was now gliding with his great wings spread out motionless on each side, and his hoofs pawing for the ground. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll draw a banana, a perfectly lovely banana, and they’ll say, “It’s a yellow airplane!” or “It’s a duck without wings!” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I had imagined today warm, with seagulls winging across a blue sky, not overcast and damp. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the dry rustle of its wings from where he stood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then he sniffed her head and wings with his big, wet nose. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We heard its wings flutter as it brushed past us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

From above the larches Kehaar sailed down among them, alighted and folded his long, pale gray wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Higher, he flew—higher—until the heat of the sun melted the wax holding those wings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small pale green wings sit on his back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Annual crops fly on a wing and a prayer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hops around and flaps its decaying wings and I wake up, my heart beating fast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I saw a dragonfly with a large crimson body and transparent wings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All about, the forest spoke, sometimes sounds of animals, sometimes the white whirr of insect wings, sometimes only the trees shifting gently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the bed, and on the ceiling beams: wings softly stirring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a couple of minutes, a small one with wings like a bee landed on the edge of the jar, staring into it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Even for Roman demigods, the name conjured up an image of a silly winged baby with a toy bow and arrow, flying around in his diapers on Valentine’s Day. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Aphrodite in her winged car high over the earth heard her lover’s groan and flew to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of being cut made him physically sick and the butterflies moved within him with the burning wings of nausea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bird circled the field Palmer silently celebrated, his shoulders shrugging up and down in support of the wonderfully working, unshot wings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew after him, leaving her wing prints on the snowy table. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He knew now why people said love gave you wings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Its wings moved up and down with long, massive flaps that swept away the clouds we were flying through. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The bat was so small and lovely, a little animal with wings, and I wanted it to live. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its white wings cut a flashing V against the indigo sky as it moved due south across the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were half-way up, an eagle flew past so close to them that the wind of his wings blew' chill on their faces. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She screamed everything, and felt as though her very being broke apart in the soft scatter of wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

High John stepped out of the fold of Old Familiar’s wings, his footsteps sending little twisters of dust spinning down the ramp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he grappled with the table, the brilliant red bird bobbled slightly and raised her wings for balance, chirping irritably. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t speak, just runs his fingers over the bruises on my neck with a touch as light as moth wings, plants a kiss between my eyes, and disappears. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One of the chickens flapped her wings, and as she did, the barn door slammed open. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She tried to get to her feet, slipped, lost her balance, and spread her wings. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By all the winged lions in Venice, Victor thought, now he's got honey literally dripping from his mouth, the little flatterer. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their wings were like angels’ wings, except the eagles’ wings were fully unfurled, flying. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

With a last effort, she pulled herself over the aerie ledge and flopped down on her breast, wings out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She saw it fly out from nowhere, its wings flashing black, then white. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I'm telling you: I will give the wing to the Conte. You'll get your share as usual, but now leave!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She worked up a sweat even in the autumn chill, riding until her legs were tired, her ankles aching, her arms sore from being spread out like wings guiding her through the dark forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The winged girl, the circlet in her hair glittering like a star, rested her fingers for a moment on the back of Coraline’s hand. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A dragonfly skims over the surface, his crystal wings reflecting the sunlight. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark field, flashing lights, Lysander wings against the moon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

After all, I only had puny softskin muscles now to power my wings, while he had the muscles of a dragons body. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so were the Object and I. Powdered and glossed, our hair hot-combed into wings, we had set off for the party ourselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The flamingos slept on one leg, their heads under their wings. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I aimed to stick a bullet right where his wings hinged to his back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My people had wings once,” she says, the longing clear in her voice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My sisters were thrilled by the little naked, winged bodies like storybook griffins, and by the horrible fact they were dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’re given slides to look at: butterfly wings, cross- sections of worms, planaria stained with pink and purple dyes so you can see the different parts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eagles nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took to the air, flapping its wings in his face, slowing him, blinding him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They have hairless wings, and they fly low and fast. They do not visit this world, but they fly the red skies above the road to Ghulheim.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Still, I wished she’d use her wings to soar up closer to the divine hem of our Blessed Virgin instead of to flutter towards things not worthy of her attention. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want Ryan Dean in my line, sir. He’s our best wing. You know that,” Joey said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Because if the wings were at the same height, he’d look like he was hanging stuffed in a museum somewhere.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wanders into the kitchen attached to his guest wing, where the ceilings are high and the countertops are shiny marble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a yellow two-seater with a 450-horsepower radial engine, a low wing, and retractable landing gear. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You believe men and women flew down from the skies on fiery wings?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Petey blinked so rapidly it was like watching the beating of wings. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At Tyrion's approach they took to the air, squawking and flapping their black wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He led them the long way around to the Italian wing, through the main hall with its tapestries and suits of armor in glass cases. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the only creature she had seen whole was the winged fairy, who repeatedly flew down that corridor as if she were doomed to traverse the same small space for eternity. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But these were seafaring birds that could span the Pacific with hardly a flutter of the wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shuffle onstage, and I step deeper into the wings. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The summer passed, and they never got the wing reattached to the body, the fuselage mended. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was an angel with stiffened wings strapped on my back with a gold harness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They fanned their wings in slow motion as they made their way up her long, pale dress from the hem up to her neckline, forming an intricate floral pattern. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Astonishingly, though, even as he became larger and larger, Fyrian had somehow regained the use of his wings and was hovering overhead, peering over the rim of the trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward and spun the plate of wing bones onto the coffee table. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was a bird with great wings, and for feathers they put a covering of leaves from the trees that grew there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now, after stretching his wings he retracts them again, stretches out his head, and waddles, making his tedious way up one branch and down another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to fold into herself, like a pleated wing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the wing of an angel, isn't it?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just be careful of her hurt wing,” she said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The black wings cracked like thunder, and suddenly the scarlet sands were falling away beneath her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On her shoulder, pale Viserion flapped wings the color of cream, stirring the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Son flares elbows into wings, lunges forward protecting his children. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One morning Mr. Bow took me down to the hole, which was a corridor of isolation cells under the hospital wing, when he was doing basic medical rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But he had left Prospero’s blue floral cape behind in the stage wings. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our room was so quiet, I could just make out the sound of the moth’s wings. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In midflight the dragon-Ged raised wings, stopped, and stooped as the hawk stoops, talons outstretched downward, striking and bearing the other down by neck and flank. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fairies had to tuck in their wings to descend the stairs, so Kendra ran down beside the furry fairy and the albino. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I saw its wise face and fluttering wings at the window—then Ultima was by me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he went to get them for her, the blouses and skirts were like bright wings of butterflies settled on the branches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I've a surprise for you," the nurse said as she installed me in a sunny room in the front wing overlooking the green golf links. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had simply grown black wings and proceeded to flap about the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A sour smell, disturbed by their wings, filtered up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the dark yard, the great skeletal thestral looked up, rustled its enormous batlike wings, then resumed its grazing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And the vast house too, the silence of that echoing hall, the uneasy stillness of the west wing, wrapped in dust-sheets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and Porkpie swerved madly to the left, while Blackjack tucked in his wings and plunged. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A lone seagull was gliding along the river’s edge, flipping a wing to correct itself as it went. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The sparrow silenced him with an upraised wing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On a wing and a prayer after quitting college he had scrounged up enough money to buy a dump truck in Crane. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got my wings, after a most enjoyable year of flight training, I also got some great news. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave the CF wing, pushing open the heavy door to the stairwell and taking the concrete steps by twos even though my lungs are burning after just one floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s shoulder muscles flexed to the rhythm of its wings, urging it on. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My heart has a pair of wings, too—one wing fluttering with excitement because maybe we’ll soon be free! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The winged shoes kept bucking up and down like tiny broncos. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bronze angels stepped in front of us and folded their wings like shields. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Their wings flaked in the water, some stuck to him, some whirled about him, as he went on deeper into the pool. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the wings are working!” he said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I run back to the apartment like I’m skating on ice, like I’ve got the wings of a fighter plane, bursting through the door so quickly that Helena gives a little scream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All had weathered, leathery skin and nubs instead of wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Inigo was about to say, but there was no need, because with a rush of wings he had expected and a high long shriek he had not, the first king bat swooped down at him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It moved more rapidly over the top of her wings than under them and created lift. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Holding his wings firmly outstretched, he spiraled high above the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was tall and gaunt, with a pale skin and sunken eyes the colour of a kingfisher’s wing, neither blue nor green. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny dragon perched on the branch extending over the door of Xan’s tree home, opening his multicolored wings as wide as he could and arching his long neck toward the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Their delicate winged bodies, prone and limp, were snarled in the girls’ hair, attached to their clothes, even stuck to their bare arms and legs, like dried pressed flowers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It appeared out of nowhere, gliding towards us, wings spanning over three feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The colored light shimmered and shone on the wings’ surface and I flexed them joyfully, delighted with how the colors spread and played upon their surfaces. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t have wings. They weren’t beings of fire. Like the seraphim, though, there were six of them, three male, three female. No army, no servants. They needed none,” said Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She gripped the feathers on his back, felt the beat of his powerful black wings, felt a dizzying upward surge, and shut her eyes tight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over to the wings, saw Eugenia still bent with grief. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I am riding it, wedged into the center fold, arms spread along the wings. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Keeping himself fully shielded, the commander stowed his wings in their sheath, advancing on foot across the deck. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cricket prepared to fling himself into the first wild strains of the jig, but suddenly he dropped his wings and said, “I’m just not up to it tonight.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kestrel sailed into view and took up station, the black-edged flange of its tail bent down and its pointed wings beating rapidly as it searched the down below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Going home?” a voice asks as I step into the science wing, making me jump and almost spill my drink. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Tipping one wing, she moved effortlessly over an abandoned field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like magic, the butterfly flew into the air, fluttering its wings up and down. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The craft tipped its wings and zigzagged across the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He soared over the trees, tilted one wing, and found himself headed for the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My arms rise slightly—as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me — then come to rest at my sides. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“And the wings want to keep it up.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No protection but silence, no protection but dark hiding places, wings, and prayers.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His wings glimmered in shades of blue, black, and purple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two gargoyles, wings spread for flight, perched on each of the four clock faces, soundlessly roaring at those beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of hes . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then they released the bird and it swooped with a flurry of white wings, hovered over the edge of the boat, then sat on top of the shiny water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tourists screamed as Kampe appeared from the dust and rubble, her wings spread out as wide as the yard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snow goose dæmon wheeled and flew down toward the roof, beating his great wings inward to help him slow down, and landed with a clatter on the pantiles below the sill. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can feel the pressure of its wings.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blinded by dense snow and freezing fog, Zhenya wasn’t able to see where she was landing, and one of her wings hit the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She turned to him, shrugged the broad flare of her fox wings back from her shoulders, and wrapped her arms around his waist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jeremy is almost at the steps when I back myself into the corner where the arts wing juts out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maria stands in the wings, chewing her lip. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the shadow of horror wheeled and returned, passing lower now, right above them, sweeping the fen-reek with its ghastly wings. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A huge head emerged from the shadows, and Magdalys could make out some of the wings and body. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Try telling that to anyone who has heard his mother scream, “Here come the king bats!” followed by the poisonous fluttering of wings. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My group and I wait in the wings, lined up in our bright costumes, everyone barefoot. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And in answer they came, every bird in the forest, whether they had been gliding in the hunt on silent wings or roosting asleep; they came fluttering upward in their thousands through the tumbling air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Metal rang, and a falcon's wing collapsed with a crunch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We started with the 50s wing of dorms and made our way backward around the hexagon—she pushed open the back windows while I looked out and made sure no one was walking by. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had everything painted on the J-3, but the wings still needed to be bolted on. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Stooping and harvesting tomatoes, she tries to settle her nerves by escaping into the safety of memories, when her skin was smooth as milky tea, her hair black as a crow's wing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So also did the cat, its stomach gorged with tiny crumpled wings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok must have known he was looking at her, but she kept her head tucked under her arm, like a pigeon using its wing to shelter from the rain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Their wings were the first thing he’d heard in more than twenty years. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One had a skirt like a cage carved of whalebone, another a long train made of hundreds of doves’ wings all stitched together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His own metal wings seemed to weigh him down, getting in his way while he tried to work. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had my savings and had never been much trouble, so they must have reasoned it was an opportunity for me to spread my wings and make something of myself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Garrett sidles up to me, holding the cake box, his blond hair winging out from under a baseball cap. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When the job was finished, it turned out to be a bird of prehistoric dimensions, with the face of a furious eagle, wings that moved, and a propeller on its back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor is already dressed and in makeup, and she stands in the wings doing some awkward vocal warm-up that she invented herself. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Tight on the Capitol seal on a wing, which melts back into the image of my face, shouting at the president. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The bird pirouetted on one vast wing and tipped into a slow, graceful spiral. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Its wing colors changed to blue and purple, then to yellow and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She watched them, lifted her wings to migrate with them, then folded them back in place. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Malverns'd disappeared behind wings of rain, beating just fields away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She saw them perched on the box’s lip, fanning their shaggy, crumpled wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bo drew winged lions all the time and Prosper simply drank in every word his mother said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the bat’s wings folded in, but the other extended at an awkward angle, clearly broken. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marco bent toward me with a tight smile, and in one swoop my drink took wing and landed in a potted palm. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

This was another, and very well-functioning, kind of creature with much more prominent wings and long feathery antennae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, holding the heavy bird in one foot, she beat her wings and skimmed over the thistles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When her wings beat, waves of darkness rolled over the cliffs, making Annabeth feel heavy and sleepy, her eyesight dim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were the echoes of nostalgia I heard in the crying strings of wild geese winging south against a bleak, autumn sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its wing cases were erect, like a ladybird’s about to fly, and the wings inside were beating so furiously that they were only a blur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hummingbirds evolved instead to feed on nectar and insects, which they find by using their own wings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman who had shoved her away now barred her way with his long arms outspread like the wings of some prehistoric bird. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brush drawings it looks like the ideograph for “human,” two black wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a pair of soldiers brought the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are even wings at the sides that welcome my head to rest into them. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And they saw the Penguin come dancing by, waving his short wings and singing lustily. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Pong became a bat, sleeping all day with a sheet wrapped tight around his face like wings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You know, like they have in big churches. An angel like that is probably quite valuable, but only if it has both its wings. And he has probably somehow lost one of them.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nobody stopped me, so I walked round the corner of my wing of the hall and down another, longer hall, past an open dining room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the holiday assembly, the words of the alma mater had wings. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This car had the wings of Mercury I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Duchess jumped to get it, fell, spread her wings, and sailed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

This one glided down into the com on its enormous, ragged black wings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ralph sent his other wing tip to join the first, and toed one of his slippers besides, imagining his father being tortured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want center,” he confides in me, “though I’ll probably get wing again. You’ll get second row in spite of being lanky and weak.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Not the blue of cornflowers or dragonfly wings or skies, and not of tyranny, either, or murder waiting to happen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As Ron and Hermione emerged, spluttering and gasping, from the depths of the lake, the dragon flew on, its wings beating hard, and landed at last on a distant bank. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She pumped her wings and carried it away without coming down to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The hook wrapped around the base of the pig’s wing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The velvety wings brushed past his cheek, and he caught his first sight of Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stephen won’t be there anymore, but there’s always another Stephen waiting in the wings. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I had seen moths and winged insects pouring from the mouth of the cave, and it occurred to me that some of them must be flying all the way to the back. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the dark shapes of the nixies in the water and the boy at the revel, howling over his torn wing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“A fence post made from a railroad tie had hit the center of the right wing violently enough to spin the plane sideways,” Phil explained. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The scald crow on his shoulder lifts black-tipped wings and beats the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This upset the Mellower’s mother so much, she retired to a far wing of the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered by a package of chicken wings, which, at twenty-nine cents a pound, held some interest for her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had the body of a panther—sleek, black, and feline—with the wings and head of an eagle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Odin screeched as he flapped his wings, and the mountain doors opened, and he rose into the skies. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You call it an open mind to believe men flew down from the skies on fiery wings?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When you looked hard, you could see that most of their body was neck, tail, and wing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be great black birds with immense white wings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry took us into the solarium in the north wing of the house for a lesson. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Father shifted his hips suddenly to the right and the rudders shifted to the right and the wings warped again. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a late June day when the cliff side was green and yellow with chickweed, Chup caught a passing starling on the wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The orchestra room was far from the science wing, where Mr. Wrigley was slowly progressing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Birds fly above us, and they look like they have hearts as wings. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His wing broke off at the base, and his plane dropped like a rock and was almost out of sight in an instant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘Then come, and let your brother go with us, and some other of your folk who is most swift! For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Despite differences in style, the three men worked well together and even shared an overlapping membership, with some of the milder members of C.P.'s organization forming the radical wing of High’s and Keith’s groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the theatrical skull sings, “Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know ... sounds like wings to me.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Through the abundant windows I see a strange vehicle—it’s shaped like a bird, with two wing structures and a pointed nose, but it has wheels, like a car. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If he had had wings when he was tossed overboard, he would not have sunk to the bottom of the sea. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Cardan has stopped beside a boy with long copper hair and a pair of small moth wings—a boy who isn’t bowing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom said her mama helped her daddy put his coat on while his winged arm healed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did not wonder at finding him again, just opened her wings and flew out over the field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The brand wasn’t like American brands, which were initials or letters or even numbers; it looked like a big butterfly with its wings outstretched, or two loops of rope tied together in the center. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton had once dropped the shaker, breaking the tip of one of its wings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The raven flapped its wings and gobbled up the morsel, then croaked at Ivan. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t-a been no more surprising if Spangler sprouted wings and flew off to scare mice under the king of England’s chair! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

By the time they made it all the way to Arizona, their car’s license plate and grill were splattered with bug guts and mangled wings. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He preened, his left wing lightly touching my scarred cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, Boo? Do you have to stretch out your wings now? Must’ve been so tiring just sitting on our shoulders the whole time.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lay down in front of the fire, folded his wings contentedly, and seemed ready for a good nap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of turbans they wore steel or silver caps, some of them set with jewels, and one with little wings on each side of it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mda believed the Youth League should function as an internal pressure group, a militant nationalistic wing within the ANC as a whole that would propel the organization into a new era. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gryphons arrived in a wave of angry beaks, talons, and wings, swarming around the giant, trying to get under his legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His front tire tilted high; he imagined wings sprouting from the handlebars and jet fire shooting from his seat as his back tire touched down on the opposite side of the creek. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he pounds his fist on the table so hard it makes all of us jump, and the parrot flaps his wings powerfully enough to lose a few feathers. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Klava herself was wounded in the leg, and before long, fire began to spread along the wing of their Pe-2 from the damaged engine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Running makes everything bubbling around inside twist and turn and spread out behind me like wings. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In the rectangle created between the wings, the old school, and the breezeway, flowers bloomed beside a stone fountain which did not work. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a message for her, and when she had heard it she reached out and plucked the fairy from the air, pinning its wings back. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dragonflies’ wings were pearled with mist, like cobwebs, and from time to time they’d beat them quickly to clear them, because the drops must make them heavy, Lyra thought. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She watched as a variety of tiny winged animals came and went, feeding from the pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The nubs wiggled like the remnants of amputated wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was like being swept under a bird’s wing, and that’s how we stayed for a while, rocking back and forth with me tucked under there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow of reeling wings passed over his eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I shove a chicken wing in my mouth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They were bugs—antennae and hairy legs and iridescent wings. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“How do you like your adventure now, you arrogant little twit?” a lechuza with Inés’s voice asked Juanita as she caressed her face with the bristly feathers of her left wing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Jon stroked Frightful’s wings and breast, then held her feet in his hand and her body along his forearm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The resulting long exposure caught a bow-shaped blur, like the ghostly wings of a butterfly, then the bright line of the collar stay as it found its bearing and grew still. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, the broken angel is upright, with a stunning crack zigzagging across her back beneath her wings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Each man was assigned to a crash station, which in Louie’s case was by the waist window behind the right wing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Fairy gowns and suits shimmer like the wings of dragonflies. Fairies drink from cups the shape of lupine bells. Fountains of juice and nectar of all different colors fill their cups.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tourists navigated around the angel’s huge wings without a second glance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She walked to both ends of the hallway, then explored another wing for good measure. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never fly but so high with these wings,” the father said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regina tried giving her son the approval that every child needs, and the wings to find himself, by encouraging him to engage in sports, take part in family excursions, and do better in school. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, those are good choices—for the most part. What others?” she asked, and somehow, an hour flew by, carrying them on the wings of conversation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Three magpies perched in a hawthorn tree took wing as he passed them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The whole farmhouse looks like some kinda bird with the chimney as its head and neck and a shiny front and wooden wings stretching out behind, like a bird resting on the water or something. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

High towers that people built, and strong places, and havens of many ships; and the winged crown of the Kings of Men was held in awe by folk of many tongues. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He let his fingers drift across the reams and let his mind drift to the rustly sounds of paper wings flying across the face of the mountain and disappearing from sight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“In the morning when he crawls out of his tent he sits on a rock and combs until the beard shines like a cormorant’s wing,” Ramo said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, with a flutter of wings that threw up a little fountain of sand in front of him, the first bird landed a few yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Welcome!” shrieked a large Hyacinth Macaw who was perched on a branch with outstretched wings. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

From all sides comes the whir of tiny wings, which I used to confuse with the sound of insects in our woods at home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I’d make my own wings that wouldn’t fail. Do you think I could?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Underneath Desdemona, beating time against the boards and lifting her up: a pair of wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The engine room blew, sending chunks of ironclad, flying in either direction like a fiery set of wings. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Celia paced the length of the bathroom like an upset hen, her open trench coat flapping behind her like a large wing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ranging in height from one to five inches, the fairy has a minute humanoid body, head and limbs but sports large insect-like wings, which may be transparent or multi-coloured, according to type. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only male crickets could produce the sound, drawing the one wing against the other, all to attract a mate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His chilled wings beat the earth like a drummer’s stick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was semidark, not long before dawn, and planes were regularly taking off and landing, their landing lights sweeping the runways, or their wing and tail lights blinking in the sky. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delight and surprise are written all over its wing grin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The rear vertical rudders twisted to the left and the wings curled slightly, as if they were alive. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mean Lady Ming yelled something mean back to the kitchen, and in ten minutes we had a brown bag smelling of fried rice and chicken wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the bird never once flapped a wing, plowing back to earth like a shot, causing a minuscule explosion of dust when it smacked into the dirt, breaking its neck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pound away, soundless as the wet wings of a new butterfly. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Now, in the warmth, he fluffed his wings and chirped. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The angel folded up his giant wings and disappeared as Joseph bolted up from bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She slipped, dropped to the ground, and skidded on her wings and undercoverts to a low spot where she finally stopped. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them were taken under the protective wing of Mary Jackson, who, like an ambassador, helped the recruits find places to live and settle into their jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just below the wing is a huge cylinder with spinning blades inside it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But each goose slowly drifted into position until the flock formed a wobbly V. At the lead was Longneck, and behind his left wing was Brightbill. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jam stared at the locked layers of Pet’s face and remembered how it looked that night, with its mighty wings outspread, terrible justice come to Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now the pilots could sit and eat on the wings of their aircraft, ready to take off at any moment when the enemy turned up to interrupt their meal. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I press myself into the farthest corner of the wings, wanting to dissolve into the wall and forget that I ever opened my mouth tonight. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It spread its metal wings, blinked its obsidian eyes, and flew around the room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under those bushy eyebrows of his, Grandpa Izzy's eyes are bright blue like the sudden underside of a bird wing. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if he had had a fleet of makeup men waiting in the wings, an agent, a contract, a percentage of the profits—what then would he be? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the original home stood in the middle with various additions, rooms, and wings stacked and piled around it, like a merchant trying to carry too many bags at once. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t see the floodlights and the pillboxes, because of the wings around my face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given our wings, our blinkers, it’s hard to look up, hard to get the full view, of the sky, of anything. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machines would be a cross between a bicycle and a glider, a winged bicycle with a propeller. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strained my ears over them to listen for the clicking of grasshopper legs and wings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still, when August removed the lids, the bees poured out in thick black ropes, breaking into strands, a flurry of tiny wings moving around our faces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m on the stoop outside my house flapping my wings and running with my heavy talons and going nowhere. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And I might hope to grow wings and fly, but that is no guarantee of it happening!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Tower. Engine explosion! Cockpit lights out. Am commencing starboard turn to avoid populated area. Will attempt to punch out when wings are level. Wish me luck. Over.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From above came the sudden sound of wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

High against the blue, three winged shapes wheeled and glided. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“No, not from this wing,” she answered, “you can’t even hear it, either. You would not know the sea was anywhere near, not from this wing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the batteries failed, or when it was too dangerous to let a light show, they’d have to feel their way in the dark to fix the heavy bombs in place beneath the Po-2s’ wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The wings of the paper swallow began to shiver. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Three lazy flaps of its great black wings, and it perched atop Longclaw's hilt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its big bird wings circling and the roar of its engine getting softer. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They must have gotten the message: I got my wings clipped. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Germogen shook his wings and nestled them back against his body carefully. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

While white albatrosses escorted Endurance through the ice on their magnificent, motionless wings, Leonard Hussey, the meteorologist, serenaded the passing wildlife with his banjo. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

On their Jackboot hats the great silver eagles spread their wings and seemed to glare at the people, daring them to do something wrong. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The heron pounded the air with its wings, jacked itself clear of the water and flew off down river. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruthie pulls me through the main foyer and down into the left wing of the building, to the big office at the end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Nergal beat his wings to land on the roof of a parked van. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the breakfast table and opened the newspaper and hid her face behind the huge pages as if she were reading the wings of a giant butterfly. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stripped his man clean in the open court, raced down the right wing and did this nasty reverse dunk. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If he flew too high the sun might melt the glue and the wings drop off. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood, her chair scraping like Moss’s had, and she moved into the wings, collapsing into a man’s arms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She scratched Rhaegal under one eye, and his jade-green wings unfolded for a moment, stirring the still air in the palanquin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was enchanted by the marble-walled entranceway and statues of fat babies with stubby wings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her breath came as quick as that creature’s wings had been beating. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The demon spun around as Sargon, now a giant winged lion, swooped down on it, burying his claws into its back and fangs into its neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With its great black wings of spray, arcing above the rigging, it rose before them like an angel of death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He instructed me to pack up my things, explaining that Arcanum students were located in the west wing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Richard turned back to face Du Bois, he tucked his head into his shoulder like a bird wrapping itself in its own wing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That day we only had time for the old wing, and that was plenty. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I hear the flutter of nervous little wings. You’ve brought me my harpy?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By instinct now, it responded to the slanting wing, the dark, enlarging speck, growing each moment, lowering, and coming toward Ben and his family, whose very destinies were fastened to the humming frames of jets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them had wings, and the ones that didn’t were carried in the talons of others. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Delicately made models of creatures Harry did not recognize, all flapping wings or snapping jaws, hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We marched to the little dock at the south wing of the island, and prepared to get in a bayou boat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was pearl gray and white winged, a young herring gull with a wide, flaring breast, and it seemed to be watching him, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her arms are bird wings pinned down with rocks by mean boys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t help staring at the two giant bronze guys with tall bladed wings like letter openers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“That big one — there — no, there — with bright blue wings — the feathers are all crumpled on one side.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Three had wings like butterflies, one like a dragonfly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up her Bible and read aloud the verse that cleared away the tears in her eyes: “And Ethiopia shall stretch forth her wings.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like thunder, like an avalanche, like the war cry of the seraphim who had come on wings of fire and cleansed the world of demons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But everything about it was the same—the sail-like wings, the long neck—it was one of the birds, no doubt about it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The plane rattled so badly Barry was sure one of the wings would fall off. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

At this, Boo bowed, his wings dragging on the floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a large bird with a pure snowy white body and wings that were jet-black at their tips and rear edges. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A set of enormous silvery wings arched up from his shoulders. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She winged out, banked, and started back for another strike. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boy held onto the bird, wrapping his arms around the bird’s wings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, those warriors just said they were going to the east wing first. We can still get to the stable before they do and get out of here. Follow me!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

No one spoke after that; they simply turned and jogged down the alley between two different wings of their school and out into the practice fields. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Any time, when you have nothing to do, you have only to ask me, and I will show the rooms in the west wing,” she persisted, making me vaguely uncomfortable, I knew not why. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Make your own wings. Be quick about it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

All she’d have had to do is lock her wings in place and let the wind do the rest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I fought my way to the front of the crowd, straining against hands that felt like wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After the chair was settled and Ophie had taken a deep steadying breath, she placed the quilt from the wing chair on the rocker. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Scott acted out the part of Mike, using the chicken wings on his plate, George laughed so hard she almost choked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nita and a kid they call Henry D. play out on the wings. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mapper stood on the roof, surrounded by flapping wings, shaking his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Pulling on her powerful wings, Frightful sped to the top of the tallest pine and alighted on a slender twig. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry your wings fell off,” he said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His wings arched deeply as he steered into a wind and shot like a bullet toward the sun. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sparrow pecked the ground a moment longer before she fluttered her wings and flew above the tree line, over the brick walls, and out of sight. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She began to look more and more like a fruit bat, with her pinched face and cloudy complexion and print dresses that billowed around her body like wings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I saw a red dragonfly winging along and finally alighting on the wall right in front of me,” he remembered. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother had gone to Canton market to shop, her wallet had unfolded like wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the western wing and raced down a different hall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Milkman did not speak; he watched her long fingers travel up her dress, to rest like the wing of a starling on her face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane continued south for thirty seconds more, following the same pattern, familiar and predictable now, and McWatt, lifted a wing and banked gracefully around into his turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

O dear good faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, as solemnly this day as if it had been the rustle of an angel’s wing! Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fly was beating its wings furiously, trying to break loose and free itself. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Point out the double sense of the word "expedition" in the following sentences: "With winged expedition, swift as lightning."—Milton. "The expedition of Cortez miserably failed."—Prescott. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

So here I am, my hair dancing about like whiskers behind me, and my hands flapping like wings, flying above the world until Pa summons me away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Screeching, her dragons uncoiled and spread their wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His winged gold headphones are still on his head, one side in place and the other shifted slightly off his ear, so that he can hear what’s going on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s the sound of one hundred thousand bee wings fanning the air.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One snowy heron soared down, folding its wings in at the last minute, returning to its nest deep in the marsh grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

An owl came, with an ominous, swift whirring of its wings, down on to something in the grass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then he raised his wings and splashed his belly in the water, sending a spray of drops everywhere and cawing in pleasure to be taking such a fine bird bath. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I drew over the ridges of the wings, and the neck, and the long beak. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the gene for sable color was linked with the gene that specified the shape of a wing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the moon was bright and the shadow of those wings so real, and before we could find our voices, before I could call out, “Wait!” the owl had flown off into the night. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their span was three times their length, each wing a delicate fan of translucent skin, gorgeously colored, stretched taut between long thin bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Jon was too close, 426 took off with a loud snap of his wings, climbed high, and dove at the man. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The silver horse leapt the flames as if she had wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Elena had taken her under her wing and transformed her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the eyas lifted her wings and attacked. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rising up from a great block of stone was a man with wings. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The butterfly raised and lowered his wings slowly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A butterfly with animal eyes on its wings. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A wan reflection of myself, white wings, brown ponytail and all, ghosted over the landscape. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sadie/Penny, and Marigold are clucking, their tiny wings fluttering as they step lively in the coop. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more enormous snow-white birds, each the size of a rowboat, with long, straight wings that trailed on the water behind them: very long wings, at least two yards in length. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, the rooms in the west wing were not shown to the public. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The zoots lined up in my closet are so fly, they nearly have wings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used their wings to buzz a few simple words, like nectar and sun and hive. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He moves the broken wings and reaches inside, twisting something with a clicking noise. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sound of flapping wings echoed from the elephant’s open mouth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I muss up my hair so it’s just a little wavy and spend twenty minutes giving myself flawless winged eyeliner. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“We flew home wing tip to wing tip, like in an air show,” Klavdiya said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They took to the air in a wild beating of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Uncle George did a pigeon wing, and bowing low before Grandma he began to jig. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gray fairy with mothlike wings chased a brawny minotaur out the front door with a scalding blast of steam from the end of her rod. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They’re in my hair, on my skin, crystalized wings fluttering all over me, trying to crawl across my eyes and into my ears and even up my nose. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On second thought he took out the wing and tail feathers, which were stiff and long and pretty—banded and speckled in browns and grays and light reds. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Norton sat in a huge wing chair with his jacket off. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the left was a phoenix, its tail feathers curling toward its beak, wings extended: the sign of harmony. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the left was the first version: glittery sleeveless dress, dark hair circled with laurels, golden wings folded behind her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He lifted the bloodied mass of gray by one wing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the target, they circled it twice in their small plane, heavy with the weight of the bombs hanging beneath its fabric wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Knights with wings on their helmets sprang out around the two. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Ms. Albright steps back into the wings, slamming the handbook down on a chair. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Merely to lift off the heavy white wings and the veil, merely to feel my own hair again, with my hands, is a luxury. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil ordered when he saw fuel dripping from the broken right wing.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had the power to fly—not like Jason, who could control the wind, or Frank, who could turn into a winged animal. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“For her, yes, she is. Is she literally, physically growing wings and soaring? Not that we would notice. But for her? Absolutely.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had thought for an instant that the miracle was going to be repeated with her daughter, because she had been bothered by a sudden flapping of wings. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I manage to get through another paragraph and then look up, half-expecting my audience to fly off with a rustle of wings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A flock that had been waiting for the two women to arrive winged down from trees and cupolas, fighting each other for first place. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she and her sisters rose on their bats’ wings, fluttered into the smoke-filled sky, and disappeared. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall, naked, winged, and her lined face was older than that of any living creature Mrs. Coulter had ever seen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She held the tablet closer, scanning it over the pages, mouth-filled wings occupying the screen. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The only way Father could control both the rear rudders and the curving of the wings was with a kind of hip cradle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Designs of fruit and flowers are carved into the molding and small, fat children with wings look down at us from every angle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So close was the ookpick, the white owl of the north, that she could see the clove markings on his wings and the dense white feathers that covered his legs and feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His raven gave a single flap of his big wings, croaked “Corn,” and ruffled his feathers up again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte runs out ahead, and the sea sprays up around her like wings. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Clarence flapped his wings and took off from Burke’s shoulder and flew away. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dots on the butterflies’ wings weren’t just in different places on each logo. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The surprise was a lovely little girl, exquisitely dressed, who came from the wings carrying a beautiful doll. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the bend in the trail, dragging a large dead partridge by the wing, came the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were more responsible councillors in extraordinary hats, some of which were like tea- cosies, some turbans, some bird wings, some muffs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'd like to buy some wings and test them out, and after that perhaps we might try riding dragons and see which is more fun.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Red-tailed hawks, barred owls, a ruffed grouse, an osprey with brown wings the color of Byrd’s eyes, and even a male wild turkey, fluffed and frozen in time. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Rahel watched him and her cold moth spread its wings again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen clouds make pointed angel wings that stream past the sunset, but they shred into clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine nibbled casually at a mite under her wing, as if she hadn’t heard any of this. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Blackjack speeding along next to us, darting back and forth to avoid the pig’s wings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She pecked and kicked and beat her wings against the fish until he surrendered to the murky depths of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a shower right between every two rooms in our wing, and about eighty-five times a day old Ackley barged in on me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The winged man shone in unblemished stone stained blue and gold. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And then I suppose that three little pigs with wings flew down and gave you a toffee apple each?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It screamed and struck the air with broad barred wings, and rose up on the wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon held it firmly down with a needle-filled paw and looked up at the darkening sky, where the black wing flaps of the cormorant were circling higher as she cast around for the other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay half in a dream, imagining that endless dark wings were sweeping by above him, and that on the wings rode pursuers that sought him in all the hollows of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She held her wings to her body and stacked her tail feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Anya pressed her lips together and reached out to put the backpack over Germogen’s wings and clip it around his chest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the end, however, forty-three blue-skinned fairies with dragonfly wings fluttered into the buses and settled on the backs of the gray-patterned seats. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every spoiled kid in Haven had a Hummingbird for their wilderness holidays, and here were the LEP with wings that were junk when they were new. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He took this young Mobutu under his wing and taught him to navigate the airy heights where foreigners dwell. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth fled into the wings, slashing his dagger at anyone who got in his way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fairy wings make sense, Dad, invisibility cloaks, they also make sense—but this—really? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“The buzzing of the wings of beetles,” replied his tutor at once. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bitterns boomed and the marsh harriers skimmed over the reeds and millions of widgeon and mallard and tufted ducks flew about m various wedges, looking like champagne bottles balanced on a nimbus of wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Troy had a cocky I-know-something-you-don’t-know look on his face and then he started flapping his arms like wings and making an eek-eek noise. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Pycelle moved so slowly that Tyrion had time to fin-ish his egg and taste the plums—overcooked and watery, to his taste—before the sound of wings prompted him to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My arms have grown wings and I’m almost afraid of going up into the sky, as though I held a couple of captive balloons in my fists. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two winged dragons get jealous and clamor for her attention, rubbing against her arm like cats. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And with a sound like a flapping of a bird’s wing, the clay figures moved — clearing a path for Minli. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in three hundred years. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And though the war was young, the plane was winning a reputation for being delicate, especially in the skinny wings, which could snap off if struck in combat. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remember the car swerving around the corner and Dante standing in the middle of the street holding a bird with a broken wing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“That wing chair is too lumpy. I want to sit in the rocking chair today.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And then velocity—wings and engines—a smiling stewardess—but it was more than a plane, it was a real bird, a big sleek silver bird with feathers and talons and high screeching. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the strings tight and slipped the purse around his neck, then sat holding the old Snitch and watching its wings flutter feebly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Galina, flying after Marina, could hardly see the wings of her own aircraft—let alone the two other planes in the formation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Wrights had solved the problem by controlling the shape of the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the way Halmoni would sing me to sleep, beating the soothing rhythm of a song on the wing of my shoulder blade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She brought it in and put it near the radiator, and in a short while it fluttered its wings and opened its eyes. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And I will go and steal the wing! It's not fair—you're not Mommy!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the winged beasts dropped towards them, circled lower, and Bod made the call again, until it was stifled by hard hands clamping over his mouth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Our squeals of laughter riled up the chickens, and soon they were flapping their wings, shrieking along with us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a moment Jon could almost see them too, coiling in the night, their dark wings outlined against a sea of flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could split the right wing in half. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, Jeremie, I am so happy I drag cane like angel, like superman, I am fast; I am magic; I have wings to work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was large with long, upright handles that stood out like wings on a morning dove. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I don't understand is why they have wings if they stay in the wood. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I got there, I heard the flapping of leathery wings. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had wings; her body was covered with feathers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You have a better chance of sprouting wings on your back than saving enough for a plane ticket, let alone a plane." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I think my heart grew a pair of big, fluffy white wings at the mere sight of it, and nothing was going to shoot it down. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After Johnson left, Colonel Meecham walked to his window and peeked through the venetian blinds at the jet planes, their wings folded, sitting just outside the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a hard time keeping the wings in position while he sealed them. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was wearing my Kings jacket, unzipped, and one wing of it folded around him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Had the old enchanter ordered him to capture a full-grown gwythaint, Taran would gladly have set out after one of the vicious winged creatures. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Birds flew suddenly from treetops, the slapping of their wings like gunshots. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Frightful was sitting on the bedpost, her head under her wings. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crouched down to draw a wing with his fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he told her he was writing to me, she said to tell me to remember my wings. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The news that Colin Creevey had been attacked and was now lying as though dead in the hospital wing had spread through the entire school by Monday morning. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Once more she spread her wings and once more she got no lift. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s wait until we fix that wing. Then you can get out. Here. Eat this spider.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even the air in the alleyways tasted of snow, and only the wings of the carved angels and dragons high up on the rooftops felt any real warmth from the pale sun. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beating his wet wings, he was carried, rolling and tumbling, low over the marshland. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Its head moved jerkily around, and it lifted its wings and then dropped them again in a steady rhythm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of my journey must be on the wings of Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He held it very carefully, like a bird with a broken wing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The aircraft came closer, so that the boys could make out the markings on the wings and the white helmets of the pilots in the cockpits. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Butterflies by the thousands fluttered maniacally before the headlights then exploded like tiny half-angels on the windshield leaving a scant yellow paint and the dust of broken wings as a final signature. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when I’m wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were wasplike, thorax and abdomen joined in narrow waists, wings like blades, and stingers longer than a child’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His spear remained in Drogon’s back, wobbling as the dragon beat his wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a tall gray hat and a remarkable coat with very wide shoulders, like wings. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had asked me for a flying saucer, I would have sprouted wings and searched the night sky for one. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had feathers, and heads and beaks not unlike swans’, but those wings were situated one in front of the other, surely... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mother asked, her eyebrows rising like crows’ wings. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ida s wing was still firmly in its place, but only a stump remained of the other one. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the only trace of an air battle the aviators could see below them was a fragment of a Soviet aircraft wing on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The snow angel has feathery wings and a tiny pin head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the word was a picture of a fist clenching a wing. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Their wings were long and graceful instruments of speed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m humming like a bee’s wings, never more awake, more alive. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brooke is waiting in the wings, eager to take the stage. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Behind her stood her brothers—two young men with purple-feathered wings, stark white hair, and jagged swords of Celestial bronze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wings blotted out much of the sky. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His wings unfolded, and he half flew, half hopped onto the parapet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She covered the food with her wings, then looked around. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not with dread, but agitation lest it shouldn’t work, and...excitement—as wild and soft as a chaos of moth wings—lest it should. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I heard the flap of leathery wings circling somewhere above. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wings above their heads cut out the sun for a second with the sweep and billow of a sailing yacht. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Electronic computing had moved from the wings of aeronautical research to the main stage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The butterflies in her stomach began beating their restless wings again at the thought, and Dimple tried not to groan. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The creature’s fingers worked faster than hummingbird wings, pinching and tossing each particle over its left shoulder. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were two creatures now, and the second one had wings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Matthias had relieved the sparrow of her brick hobble, pinioning her wings, make the going easier. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of Númenor he spoke, its glory and its fall, and the return of the Kings of Men to Middle-earth out of the deeps of the Sea, borne upon the wings of storm. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The power of almost all animals depends on their bodies: the strength of their muscles, the size of their teeth, the breadth of their wings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colors on the wide wings changed and moved. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I saw that the door leading to the west wing was open wide, and that someone was standing there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the chicken flapped her wings, erupted from Finn’s grasp, and half ran, half flew across the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“In the stories, he looks enough like a human that he can ride horses and wield weapons. He has paper wings.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It’s two blocks away—a tall gray building with big tanks of frozen oxygen out front and construction vehicles constantly adding new wings. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They resemble flocks of butterflies opening and closing their wings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning he awoke suddenly to a flutter of wings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“If the plane fell, I wouldn’t have been surprised if you grew wings.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the harsh, vibrating cry of a moor hen echoed through the trees, followed by a flapping of wings and a watery scuttering. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1915 occupation, the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the beating of huge wings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Five of them were fluttering over the top of the dimes—plump little hags with pinched faces and talons and feathery wings too small for their bodies. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his wings down and felt himself drop. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Father straightened the front and rear rudders and the wings again. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the trees that closed off the sky, beat her wings, circled Sam’s head, and climbed out of the forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

One of Tinker Bell's wings was fluttering frantically; the other was held between Basta's fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Frightful flashed her wings and flew over the trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The jaegers circled, the longspurs tumbled on their wings, and at last Silver came home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie was out every Saturday that summer tinkering with engines and doping fabric wings and making friends. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I ask, settling into a very comfortable looking brocade wing chair that is completely out of place in the otherwise functional lab. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Not anymore. So, let's find some paper and begin on this wing.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I spot the Chrysanthemum Teahouse in the distance, its turrets shining like the wings of bright bayou fireflies in the dark of night. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

With his broken wing and lifetime of eating road- kill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan was too far away from their bedroom; for the number of risks involved, it might as well be in Egypt. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would see all parts of it; see the whole wing, the feathers, see the color of the feathers, see the bush, and die size and shape and color of its leaves. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last had furry wings, and her body was coated with pale blue fuzz. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The hubbub of the B section faded and was replaced by new sounds: the rustling of wings; the clop of hooves on the floor; the chuffing of a tiger. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She warbled and fluttered her wings, then flew back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jessica's the wing leader, tossing her head, lips curled in a smile. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they started selling nachos, I knew that chicken wings couldn't be far behind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was an amazing spectacle, those nine helicopters winging through the sky, each with a trussed-up fifty-foot-long giant slung underneath it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own daemon, a seagull, had her head tucked under her wing on the capstan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tinker Bell braced her arms against his fingers and tried desperately to free her second wing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But in the weeks and months that followed, she witnessed many moths chewing through fuzzy cocoons, crawling out, and pumping up their wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Presently a grass blade trembled and Miyax saw a young bird fluttering its wings as it begged to be fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes around the desk and sits upright in the wing chair beside mine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rahel stopped and turned around, and on her heart a drab moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts unfurled its predatory wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother, let him try his wings,” he told his wife, and his view prevailed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was still far away when it folded its wings and bombed the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Andeg greeted Omakayas with fluttering wings, ducking his head to accept a little scratch, cooing with a sweet and gurgling sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked up and saw a butterfly with rainbow wings fluttering. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hermione wasn’t there -— he supposed she was still in the hospital wing having her teeth fixed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And with another loud peal of laughter he spread his speckled wings and flew out of the window.... Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I sat a few feet away, entranced, close enough to hear the angry low-pitched buzzing of his wings, so at odds with his jewel-like appearance and jaunty attitude. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I have a charcoal-gray pencil skirt that’s hard to walk in despite the kick pleat, and a bat wing sweater, a red one with modulated gray horizontal stripes across it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His wings were a combination of russet colors, like a bantam rooster or a lazy sunset. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ones with the stained-glass wings took their time, drifting lazily. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I imagine a raven sitting on Daniela's shoulder, and I blacken her hair to match its wings. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just her belly now that felt a flutter like wild soft wings, but her chest where her hearts were, and even her head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he spread his wings, flapped hard, and took off—but after flying four feet he stopped with a snap and crashed to the ground again, shedding a flurry of black feathers and squawking loudly. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They got within thirty feet, and the winged dude looked directly at them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A medical orderly had been summoned, but it was clear that there was little hope for the angel: he was wounded sorely, his wings torn and his eyes dimmed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another screeched and tried to fly away, but Percy sliced off her wings and sent her spiraling into the chasm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There must be something to take up one’s time—some clouds to darn, some weary wings to rub with liniment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was, Harry reflected in the darkness, the third time that he had been brought to the hospital wing because of a Quidditch injury. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had to close his wings to squeeze through the opening at the top. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The orange orb has wings like there’s an angel taking it to the hoop. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wings flashed reflections of sun when they jumped. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another creature, this one shaped a bit like a small dragon with fuzzy wings that trailed on the ground, bustled past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wished for words like his father’s words, sweet winged words, cooing and lovely. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was not sure how long she sat there before the hen began to squawk loudly and spread its wings to shield the chicks, but they did not run into the shelter quickly enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Frightful was not about to join Chup wandering free on wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As we wait in our double line, the door opens and two more women come in, both in the red dresses and white wings of the Handmaids. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird began to struggle, to flap its wings, and as soon as it lurched in its fight to fly, pecking at Genie’s hand, he got scared. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Holy Mother Church took us under her wings and instructed us in her ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered past the quad while munching on it and headed for the east wing to see if the college reps had decided to stick around until lunchtime this year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing to tell,” Naheed went on, but she was beginning to see her story growing wings and feathers and flying away, too far for her ever to catch again. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Sarah and Miss Rose soared over the glade, their brilliant black wings spread wide. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the time we hardly suspected how absolutely vital the external wing would become. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calling upon the Fruit of Islam, as the military wing of the Nation was known, she stood by while the young men pulled out the wooden commode from the rickety shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His skin cracked and split open, but there was only more fire beneath, his coattails rippling behind him like a pair of wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The baby opened its mouth and vibrated its wings, as a hungry baby will do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their heads were human and beneath their wings they had arms and hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth could imagine being an Ancient Greek, walking into the Parthenon and seeing this massive goddess with her shield, spear, and python, her free hand holding out Nike, the winged spirit of victory. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Well, he might never have wings in his waking life, but he would hold Sarai—not her phantom and not her moth, but her, flesh and blood and spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You brought me the wing and Morosina and I took a ride.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was flying as high as twenty feet now, and the sun, gleaming through the painted canvas, made the wings seem like living flesh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun angled low enough to slant its rays under the citadel’s outspread wings, it had gone beyond the edge of the Cusp, and only traded one shadow for another. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The gray ones were winging their way southward. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense, the Art of Fugue and the St. Matthew Passion were, for the evolving organism of human thought, feathered wings, apposing thumbs, new layers of frontal cortex. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt looked up into the blinding, blue sky and heard the leathery flap of wings as the bird turned in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked with his wings, and the ground sank again, like water in a leaking well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ringed upward and upward, wings spread, not flapping, just tipping now and then to keep them going up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Clearly it would very much like to be a winged horse. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He looked like the answer to everything, sitting there on a branch, tiny and perfect and winged. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And even at that moment the sun for a second faltered and was obscured, as though a dark wing had passed across it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Robbie’s arms were wings catching the air currents and he was a silver ’coaster. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Not an hour later, he snares something winging in out of the static: a simple broadcast in Swiss German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The demigods scattered as the winged lady pig swooped down. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the maester's ravens joined the feast as well, flapping down from the rookery on wide black wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dodds tried to get up, but she didn’t have room to flap her bat wings, so she kept falling down. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her wings to her body and flicked her tail in frustration. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"You are in the north wing of the palace. The Belle apartments face the morning star, the eye of the Goddess of Beauty," Ivy says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The eagle beat his wings and got above her for another strike. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Moss smiled at her and grabbed a couple of wings from the plate, then dropped them quickly because they were still hot. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The parrot sighs, digs his talons painfully into my shoulders, beats his wings, and lifts me away from the ratlines of the foremast. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I only forgot to look in the wing mirror, and let’s face it, I can use a Supersensory Charm for that.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the implication was clear: if Berkeley could not commit to the medical cyclotron, Harvard was waiting in the wings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Quiet as a shadow, she flitted across the middle bai-ley, around the Tower of Dread, and through the empty mews, where people said the spirits of dead falcons stirred the air with ghostly wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He struggled, struggled to rise up, and meet them—he wanted wings to fly upward and meet them in that morning, that morning where they were. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The action opened in Watertown, which was painted upon old linens; General Washington stomped out from the wings, his jacket ill-fitting and crude. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The winged centipede struck at the flustered hen but missed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Aurora came and wrapped her golden wings around her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus I felt slightly queasy when at lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I’m in the basement when she’s on the third floor, I’m in the gym when she’s all the way across the school in Orchestra Hall, I’m in the science wing when she’s in Spanish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The curtain flaps closed like merciful black wings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old cormorants stood like crucifixes on the rocks, drying their wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was liable to find a feather from his wings lying in her yard any day now. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Arthur published a War Department chart showing wing and tail markings of airplanes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Boo fluttered to the ground, his wings drooping in exhaustion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to flap his wings, but they still wouldn’t lift him off the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

About her feet were the winged heads of angels, the babes of Limbo. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly unhooked a set of wings from their bracket. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Closing her wings to her body, she dropped headfirst almost a thousand feet, braked, and waited ten feet above Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a leather aviator helmet with goggles and had a pair of feathered wings strapped to.his back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She folded her gray-blue wings to her body and straightened up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But not with arms stretched out like airplane wings, nor shot forward like Superman in a horizontal dive, but floating, cruising, in the relaxed position of a man lying on a couch reading a newspaper. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the silver fairy glided away, the plump fairy tackled another imp, forced a kiss, and in a flash the imp became a thin, Asian-looking fairy with hummingbird wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As if it heard them, the eagle spread its wings and dropped from the pine tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she walked the length of Cook’s trap line she saw an occasional gunning skiff, heard the wild free crying of the water birds, watched them fly up, wings spread wide. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vortices of air spiraled out from her wing tips, sending golden hemlock pollen twisting in circles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He should be about to eat those wings with you,” I tell her. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The wings were so completely silent and we so unprepared. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The beady eye of a crow stares back at me, its wing feathers pressed to the side of the pot, its fat body covered with boiling water. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His body swayed gently, the white oilcloth crumpled around his midsection like a pair of paper wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the trees nested hundreds of long-shanked herons, blue ones and white ones with black wing tips. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor hummed to himself while he took one picture after another of the Basilica, the winged lion, and the two brothers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wings were wide and white, and they swooped back into sharp rays. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I curved my hand like an airplane wing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Eat,” the raven said darkly, flapping its black wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Cadillac, with both mufflers gone, sounded like a heavy bomber coming in on a wing and a prayer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His crow dæmon opened her wings and uttered a soft “Kaark.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As one, the buzzing cloud seemed to constrict and condense, tighten into a knot of noise, a swarm of wings. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He left Edward lying on the bed, and the rabbit, staring up at the smoke-stained ceiling, thought again about having wings. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Yet, as he dropped into slumber, he recalled Adaon’s dream and felt a shadow like the flutter of a dark wing. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth's wing to them," Dany said, remembering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Several fairies crashed to the church floor, wings snarled in the goopy substance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In a few moments, he reached the stage and followed Booth into the wings. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge butterfly flapping its pink and purple wings. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Wearily Chester crossed his wings into the position for playing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had any sorrow, ‘it sat with its head under its wing’, and he turned only his sunny side to the world. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have three minutes to get to Modern Social Thought and I am being pressed into the back corner of the library wing bathroom by a thousand Charlies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He chose for himself from the pile a brooch set with blue stones, many-shaded like flax-flowers or the wings of blue butterflies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And when we are dead, We all have wings. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Slowly, slowly it forms itself into a bird with a blade of red on the wing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fairy with raven black hair and bumblebee wings approached the bowl. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

No bird sang in the trees, no wing flew overhead. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Therefore I have told the head of the Transportation Department of the State of New York to work on Bridge 92 at Gilboa until the little family is on wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What am I going to do with you now? You break into my house. You try to rob me...What do you know about the wing?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tall and slender and extremely confident, K.D. was a third-year student and he took me under his wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever so softly he tapped the hard black shell, and the antennae, and legs, and wings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her hair is as black as a raven’s wing.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped her wings, banked, and started back. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“When your brother is Pegasus, you get used to being forgotten. Oh, look, a winged horse! Does anyone care about me? No!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Father! You’re a genius! I trust your handiwork—” The first metal feather shook loose from his wings and fluttered away. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A torrent of darkness, frantic wings, and fury. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The anxiety feels like buzzing little wings in his ear in the silence, like a petulant wasp. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She has studied the creatures that ride on their petals: the soft green bodies of caterpillars, the shiny armor of beetles, the delicate wings of moths. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The winged shadow, the grieving father called him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That thing doesn't work anyway. And now give me back my wing.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Straight down upon the Nazgûl they bore, stooping suddenly out of the high airs, and the rush of their wide wings as they passed over was like a gale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a simple charm I’ve used countless times —” “Why can’t I just go to the hospital wing?” said Harry through clenched teeth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They had broken wings or legs or hearts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re about to come to the front edge of the wing, right?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That was me holding tight to the close-up print of my burnt wings, trying to figure it out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, I always wing it anyway," she said to the bird. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Out of a case flew three milky white fairies, their mothlike wings peppered with flecks of black. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Theo nodded so vigorously the little lory raised her wings and scuttled sideways down his arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even Pantalaimon was active, changing to a crow so he could flap his wings and make the fire burn faster. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking closer, Taran saw not all were dwarfs; some were tall, slender, with white robes; others were covered with glistening scales, like fish; still others fluttered large, delicate wings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

By the way, you can guess what my mother was doing in the wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The pigeon lifted its wing and glared at her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore shimmering wings, and the same flower crown that she’s wearing now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was in the house still as Mrs. Danvers had said, she was in that room in the west wing, she was in the library, in the morning-room, in the gallery above the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I lay in the dark and drew the falling bird in the air: the wings, the tail feathers, the long beak. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling and whirling of wings above us, and all the men ducked and held their hands up to protect themselves from the attack. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of seeing falcons on the wing lightens my feet, and I step up our pace through the rugged farmland. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were amber in color, with wings like flies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to Divination,” said Professor Trelawney, who had seated herself in a winged armchair in front of the fire. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was secretly glad when his hurt wing healed and he flew away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The right wing was all cavalry, some four thousand men, heavy with the weight of their armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blue dragonflies hovered overhead, their wings rattling dryly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The door through which she came and went was in the side wing. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How wings worked, how the propellor pulled the plane through the sky. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird, it had been, about the size of a very small chicken only with a fantail and stubby wings that slammed against its body and made loud noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gryphon’s wings brushed the shoulders of scholars. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her own pulse had settled, and the wildfire beating of wings in her head had calmed down a little. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He found that by tilting his wings he could make the notes go higher or lower, just as he wanted. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tender had said that Jamison was probably somewhere in the wing, but she heard no sound. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it appeared as a great winged creature, blacker than the pits in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and let her ears fill with wings beating air and early acorns falling onto the soft pad of pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Ultima’s command ring in the still night air, and a swirling of wings engulfed Tenorio. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were relieved to see the red stars on the wings, but stared at Raya in amazement when she climbed out of it—a woman flying a fighter plane! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Yet through it his father’s ba had magically emerged last night and fluttered on silent wings to the Street of the Crooked Dog to help his son. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And the Tourmaline Brotherhood pressed on her a crown wrought in the shape of a three-headed dragon,- the coils were yellow gold, the wings silver, the heads carved from jade, ivory, and onyx. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he’ll flex for us kids, and the eagle looks like it’s flapping its wings. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, in a tangle of wings and claws and arms and legs, her grandmother was there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The wing that covered most of Toby’s motionless body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she spread her wings, was lifted by an updraft of wind, and spiraled skyward on a warm thermal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It goes and then it comes back because its wings aren’t any count; it got too tamed and forgot how to fly away and eat by itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Taran, the horror beating in him like black wings came not from the livid features of the Cauldron warriors or their lightless eyes but from their ghostly silence. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up a tiny hammer and began to reshape a golden wing tip which seemed to the boy already perfect. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden rather terrifying impulse to creep upstairs now to the west wing and go into those rooms and see for myself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you have, no,” said Lazlo, finding a place for his arms about her shoulders, wild windswept hair and wings and all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he flapped his wings, a cloud of grey ash filled the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

GDs in green suits walk across the wings and crawl under the noses, checking the planes before takeoff. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His hand was still on Grace’s arm, as if he was afraid that she would suddenly sprout wings and fly out of the room. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then, it gives a mighty leap into the air—and blade-like wings extend from either side of it, unfurling in a magnificent display. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To them, that come after us, it may be as ordinary to buy a pair of wings to fly into remotest Regions; as now a pair of Boots to ride a Journey. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The outside of the van is black, but it has a firebird painted on the hood, with wings that turn to flames as they wrap around the sides. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The broad wings went through a final incensed salvo and then quit whipping Bernabe’s aching body, and somehow the hole in the neck, bubbling blood, released a last defiant scrawk. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the hen flapped her wings, moving away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it stopped for a few seconds, spread out and resettled its wings, then swelled its speckled breast and again burst into song. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Near the brush fence two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A splash, a labored beating of wings, and Zerubabel was in a gull’s beak, its pale, pink shell already crushed, its tiny pincers loosely dangling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She hung above the ledge for a moment, became confused, and stalled herself out by moving her wings and changing the wind flow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I fear he may already have done so, Papa. I may have seen the fluttering of wings as I awoke this morning.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I did admire his wife, Lady Bird, though, who always looked like she wanted nothing more than to sprout wings and fly away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Startled awake by the lechuzas’ bloodcurdling screams, Pita sat up and screamed almost as loudly as the winged witches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they were half-way across the circle they would run the last part, flapping their wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I write in it, I feel as if I’ve got a set of wings, and I’m flying over my life and looking down and thinking, Anita, it’s not as bad as you think. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Other mutant flies had forked bristles; sable-colored bodies; curved legs; bent, batlike wings; disjointed abdomens; deformed eyes—a Halloween’s parade of oddballs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He has no muscle tone in his wings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One package of chicken thighs and one package of wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Sarah folded her wings firmly and narrowed her eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It had wooden wings nailed to its sides and a tail feather on its rear. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Both Xan and the Sorrow Eater had been moved to the hospital wing of the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Harry gripped his flanks with his knees, feeling the great wings rising powerfully beneath them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, there was a single screech, and the terrible beating of wings, and the crow swooped down and landed in the middle of his back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She has bright, dark, eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with her arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d always imagined them as huge noble animals, like lions with wings, but these things reminded him more of vicious pack hunters —flying hyenas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I almost said, Team wing, which I guess works too. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Kristina nods and starts walking toward the street entrance, and I run across the parking lot and in the side door by the industrial arts wing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Perched on a crooked branch, a brightly colored parrot stretches its wings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he does, perhaps he does. But it would be a much bigger ‘bird’s wing on my hat’ if you won that scholarship. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her wings were keeping her up, but then up became down and she tumbled, exactly as Lazlo had planned it, right into his arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She hovered above my head, looked at the falcon and then at my hand, folded her wings, and dropped to my fist. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow demon thrashed his wings and squawked as the god's jaw cracked open wider and wider. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As he soared up out of a dive with wide wings white against the gray, something blade hurtled at him and struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of the ferocious birds came to rest on the Crochan and for an instant remained poised there, beating its wings. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a hospital wing, Minister, don’t you think you’d do better to —” But the door opened, and Dumbledore came sweeping up the ward. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The colored wing was having a busy morning when Cora gave her name to the receptionist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Without warning, she flung her arms around Aru and squeezed her tight, managing to catch a little of Boo’s wing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cheekbones were like the wings of a hawk soaring away from his broad nose; he wore a drooping thick mustache; the hairs were steel gray. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked petrified, and when she saw that Harry was awake, pressed a finger to her lips, then pointed to the hospital wing door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He filled in the last section of the guy with the pipe, then added some wings and sharp teeth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Dimple smiled reluctantly, and his heart soared on gilded wings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Escorted by that caravan of trucks, they were driven, without a word, up through a crimson sunset and the occasional energetic wing bursts of horned larks, to the Colorado border. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see what they could see, and hear what they could hear, and smell and taste what they could, too, and even feel whatever their wings and feet and feather antennae touched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘It seems that you are come on the wings of song out of the forgotten days,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The gosling kept hopping onto the rock and kept riding the wind and kept tumbling into the grass, until he started to find his wings. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A pair of shiny wings sprouted from his back, and he had big eyes, always full of questions. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And then maybe she would hide the skin there, deep in the hollow of a tree, for when she needed to spread enormous white wings. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With each tender seedling that unfurled its small green leaf to my eager gaze, my excitement would rise and mount; winged, wondrous. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a flowing white strapless dress, and her matching white shawl flapped around her like wings in the ocean wind. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He ran his hand lightly along the lower wing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long side has decorations: One man has shells, and the other has the whole wing of a bird dangling from his hair. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m done with the west wing. How’s it going?” he asked, his breath uneven. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a girl with wings instead of arms, flying along the border where darkness becomes light, unsure of where she's supposed to be. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only items the commander was interested in were the wings on his back and the multiphase, water-cooled, tri-barreled blaster strapped to his hip—the most powerful production handgun under the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

These items are power-ups—temporary bursts of super speed, wings to help you fly for short periods, shields of defense that can stop an enemy attack, and so on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cluny’s long tail swished restlessly, the single eye stared at a carved eagle holding the rotting lectern on its outspread wings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mom portioned grilled chicken wings with barbecue sauce, corn bread, and steamed broccoli onto three plates, and set them out on the table. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The owl spread his wide, snowy wings and flapped upwards to perch on the edge of his den. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watch the swans until they start spreading their wings and my heart goes heavy inside my chest. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They chased her to the end of the pier, and without breaking her stride the woman bounded up a set of crates and took a flying leap over the water, arms outspread like wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Behind us, I heard the sound of giant wings as Kampe took to the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a large black hat that looked like a raven with widespread wings, and a velvet vest across which the patina of the centuries had skated. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was just the tough guy who took me under his wing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When she was twenty feet above Alice’s head, she scooped her wings, dropped her secondary feathers, and braked herself. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Amid the pounding in her ears and her head, the whisper of wings filled the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“She can fly behind us. She hasn’t had a chance to stretch her wings for ages.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The horses pulled away from each other—Tempest thundering in protest, Blackjack flapping his wings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chester Academy is one of those schools that go from kindergarten all the way up to twelfth grade, but the different levels are broken into three wings of the building. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The “Mexican wing” of Crockett High School, which was really five dank and crowded basement rooms that no white student ever entered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of Mr. Smith and his wide blue wings transfixed them for a few seconds, as did the woman’s singing and the roses strewn about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their rich furs shone like birds’ wings in the firelight. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside is the part that looks like the bird’s broken wing because the sheet hangs off of it loosely. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar rose and fell with each powerful beat of its wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Inside was a beautiful horse—not the winged kind, but a majestic and powerful stallion with a honey- colored coat and a black mane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could tell that one of his wings was broken. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Percy,” Rachel whispered, “the wings. Do you think—” “Get them,” I said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I had wings so I could hide my head like Jay does when he's sleeping. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She says there was a large drawing of a bat on the blackboard, with its wings outspread and just a tiny bump between its legs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spread out his wings and stepped off the van. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Choosing the former, I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants' wing early one morning and knocked gently. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were various other wooden chairs and rockers for the rest of the family to sit in, but only Aunt Rose sat in that brown leather wing chair. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are six self-contained learning communities in our wing of the building—children with various conditions, from preschoolers to kids who ought to be in high school by now. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Their skeletons were visible through their wings in the moonlight. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Not you—my bees! They can only sting once, and then it’s lights out, the big hive in the sky. And now I’ve only Henry left, and he can’t fly ’cause he’s missing a wing.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I draw them without thinking—flight, flight, feather, wing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And here and there, the black-and-white flash of a mockingjay wing in the branches high over my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I want my children to be free, no matter what. Promise me you’ll spread your wings and fly.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She felt like a universal pet, and the second she voiced that thought to herself, Pantalaimon stretched his goldfinch wings and chirruped loudly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’d miss our little powwows in the music wing, but I would also be relieved to have our relationship out from under the microscope of high school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine hopped toward the cathedral and flapped her wing impatiently. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They’d positioned scraps of silvery metal from the plane’s wing at chest level and were using them to reflect the sun. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger,” Mary Anne answered, “I won’t be able to see it until I’m hit by one of the wings.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A yellow butterfly winged his foolish way before me to the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As I’m walking into the language arts wing, this football guy I hardly recognize almost runs directly into me coming down the stairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They were both dressed in their good dark clothes and wearing spotless starched white aprons, ruffles standing out at their shoulders like wings. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

James—well, James has been going on about the Invisibility Cloak since time itself, and Lily—I knew she’d love wings—but you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The rooster hopped into the air, flapping his wings and sending feathers everywhere. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her fairy wings around us, and for a few seconds, we came together in an awkward embrace that lasted a second too long and ended in more giggles. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Billywig’s wings are attached to the top of its head and are rotated very fast so that it spins as it flies. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bored birds let her get within inches of them before they lifted their wings and took off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is as soft as a sparrow’s beating wing, and I can almost feel the gentle flutter across my cheek. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He reached out, and as Buckbeak’s wings fell, was able to tap sharply on the glass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would be wondering where she was, why she hadn’t met him at the science wing as usual so they could walk together. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you see how he’s left the space white and blank behind the gull? He doesn’t want anything to distract the eye from the outstretched wing.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He made a quick drop, slanting down on his back-swept wings, and then circled again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brightbill’s yellow fluff had recently changed over to a coat of silky brown feathers, and he spread his feathery wings into the breeze. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“His wing is slanted off to the side.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wind roared over the hilltop, seeming to gather beneath the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For talent, he’s making me a white dress with a silver halo and silver wings. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A circle, a swoop and a hop with spread-out wings. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He set his eyes on some distant goal, bowed his wings, and flew southward as silently as the shadow he cast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped down on it, clutched it, then flapped her wings to get airborne. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Here, above a pond, the dragonflies dart and the sun strikes fire from their wings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Birds do their dying off somewhere, behind things, under things, never on the wing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met Maddy in the north wing, walked her to the car as usual. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Soon the wind was in their faces and Fledge’s wings settled down to a steady beat. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But there he was, just a hand’s breadth from her fingers, his gray eyes wide, his arms swinging as if he could turn them into wings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And Dragonwings, its wings waving over either side of the wagon, lurched forward. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now a mountain eagle with great wings and crooked beak storms in to break their necks and strew their bodies here. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it also had a baby tucked under one leathery wing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A knight is what you want. A warg is what you are. You can't change that, Bran, you can't deny it or push it away. You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was nice at first—like crumpling paper or a fly’s endlessly buzzing wings—but after a while, I began to hear things in the noise. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My arms, in the thin morning light, looked almost nothing like wings. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A hummingbird flits into view with its bejeweled magenta-green chest, its whirring wings. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the first plane, her husband controlled the wings and she could see his eyes set with purpose and she knew that he was at this moment a supremely happy man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes they flap their wings quickly, and other times they fly without flapping at all. They spread their wings and soar on the wind.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stretched his wings upward and bobbed his feathered head in bird delight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Meggie slid down from the top bunk and shut the window so quickly that she almost caught one of the shimmering wings in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The birds flapped their wings at Jon's approach and screamed at him through the bars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked down over the side of the bat’s wing and saw the rats beginning to burst apart on the rocks below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its wings were wrong, flimsy like cheap cloth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it true your son died flying, Uncle? I heard you made him enormous wings, but they failed.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two came flying at him rattling their wings, but the big one came circling from behind, very swift, to burn him and his boat with its breath of fire. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We’d woken in the heart of a green labyrinth without a map or compass, and Miss Peregrine’s broken wing meant she couldn’t fly above the treeline to guide us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That is the way it usually goes in stories: the young man has to prove his dedication to the old hermit in the woods before he’s taken under his wing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The starboard wing was taking all the damage, as he had feared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn knelt down and set Miss Peregrine on the ground on her side, then reached under her wing and pretended to wind something. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But the foul creatures hadn’t finished yet; holding their beautiful wings high, they squatted among the devastation and voided their bowels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I went to the hospital wing to find you,” said Luna, rummaging in her bag. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Larisa said, “The entire lower and upper starboard wing portions were pierced by the burst; you could see a straight black line formed by the shot-holes.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From high above, there was a fluttering of leathery wings, and the three Furies swooped down to perch on the back of their master’s throne. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As Matthias battled to free his other paw he felt himself enveloped by two pairs of wings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in her drawings, Julia gives Bob wings or a lion’s mane. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Bronn seated himself across the table and pulled a wing off the capon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She spreads her arms as if they were wings. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The cricket lifted his wings and drew them lightly together. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories of old Christmases winged through the room like richly plumed birds and rested on the pungent branches of the tinsel-heavy tree the family as a unit had decorated. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the sounds made by certain wood-boring insects enable their parasites to find them, and to the male mosquito the wing- beat of the female is a siren song. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grasshoppers winged up from the ground around her, thumping her forearms and fingers in a whirl of legs and hard bodies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A scarlet-crested bird shot by below, brushing sure dark wings against a quivering bush. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They flew in a tight circle around Gregor and Boots, locking them in a prison of wings and fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gave her the pulverized wing of a spotted oak moth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He grabs the last wing and leans against the four-poster bed. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Now what kind of a bird can that be, with no wings?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He begins putting chicken wings into another white bag. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few guards fly up into the air on pale green wings, blades drawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The canvas-covered wings, which were forty feet long and six and a half feet wide, were on top of the frame s center. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the feather-soft brush of wings against her lips as they melted back into her, leaving an aftertaste of salt and soot. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s a dragonfly with brilliant greenish-blue wings and tiny goggles over its eyes. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Normally, when a person has a stellar image, another person’s waiting in the wings to tear them apart. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then everyone cheered or bayed or neighed or trumpeted or clapped its wings and the royal pair stood looking solemn and a little shy, but all the nobler for their shyness. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

With quick wing pumps he shot up and out of sight of Frightful and the eyases. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A wind struck him from the side; he flapped his wings to keep his balance and he, too, was flying. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Silver stopped short in fear and the crow seemed to dance before him, its great black wings flapping in a horrible commotion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fury Alecto appeared behind them, hissing and flapping her leathery wings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His little feet resting upon a velvet pouffe, he was sitting well back in a comfortable winged armchair, one hand grasping a small glass of wine, the other searching through a box of crystalized pineapple. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

So there were twelve of us at the hotel, in the same wing on the same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me of my dormitory at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

One, an excited creature with wings, began to throw itself against the bars, creating a ringing noise. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is like a butterfly ready to unfold its wings. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The winged centipede spiraled out the door above the other scrambling creatures. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Angels wear clothes and wings and are Christian. Cupids wear bows and arrows; they are naked and pagan.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one made a charge, wings flapping, and Farmer turned away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The song swelled up from his wings and filled the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The woods aren’t magic, but they still speak: the branches rasping in winter, and the rustling wind. I like the creaking leaves and the birds scuttling their wings.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Guess they figured I needed a winged escort.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was yelling, clawing at the ground, but the winged shoes kept dragging him toward the pit, and it didn’t look like we could possibly get to him in time. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Light as the brush of a moth wing across the sweet ripe fruit with its crease in the middle, as soft as apricot down. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he shook his tail feathers, flapped his wings, and joined the flock. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each of the evangelists carried a wooden staff with a pair of tiny, shiny silver wings on top. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d watch him mow our lawn in the high heat of summer in a pair of wing tips, suspenders, and a thin-brimmed fedora, the sleeves of his dress shirt carefully rolled up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But then the bird jabbed at Miss Wren with her beak and Miss Wren’s grasp slipped, and with a big flap of her wings Miss Peregrine nearly escaped from her hands. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“All you gotta do backstage is get Mrs. Walton to help you with the wings,” he reminds me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As I walk offstage into the wings, it’s as though I’m swimming through a sea of sounds—clapping and whistling and foot-stamping and whooping. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lone bird flapped its wings, gradually disappearing into the pink-and-orange-streaked sky. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We came from the bottom of that river where the blood never stops flowing, where my mother’s dive toward life—her swim among all those bodies slaughtered in flight—gave her those wings of flames. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There were fay races other than the Xi—she thought the winged girl she saw in her vision must be fay—but she knew little about them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom tips of the wings, there were two round . . . eyes, I guess. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Recently, she had begun spreading her wings, taking adult courses in real estate and international economics and business management, dreaming of a bigger-than-family-size life for herself. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Without warning, twelve-foot wings flapped open on either side of Harry; he just had time to seize the hippogriff around the neck before he was soaring upward. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fog lay in pillows in the folds of the hills; the distant mountaintops shone dazzling pink and white beneath rays of low sunshine that didn’t touch the Spitfire’s wings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Once they got here, the incomers from Dad’s novel decided to surgically remove their wings, in order to blend in better with human beings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bright paintings with white winged horses and snakes as long and wide as lakes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The wind was light, the seas were calm, and although they saw the glitter of those great snow white wings more than once, the birds were wary and stayed well clear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Future aeronauts would call these little wings elevators, because they forced the aeroplane up and down in the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d made their homes in the branches, folding and unfolding their wings, until it looked like the entire grove was a living painting. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At once they beat their wings and surged forward, and she darted with them, surfing on the turbulence their pinions caused in the air and relishing the speed and power it added to her flight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken looked up, ruffling her feathers and flapping her wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Jones, whose theory on triangular delta-shaped airplane wings would revolutionize the discipline, was walking through the streets of Hampton one evening when he came upon a group of Hampton police officers harassing a black man. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Being a bird’s probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sierra filled the whole dragon wing as the sky became a hazy orange around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I can just make out the white eye, the two wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need the hospital wing. There may be a certain amount of scarring, but if you take dittany immediately we might avoid even that...Come...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I went down and down, until the wing tips of the angels brushed my eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What wings would you choose if the wingsmiths came to town? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The angle of the climbing sun snuck a slash of rays under the edges of its wings, shining a jagged shimmer along the sharp tips of the huge metal feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He making a crackling sound with his wings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat was light and fast as bird’s wings beating against a cage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were streets in the cities, and eagles flew over them, wobbling without moving their wings. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wings always worked, just like his eyes always worked and his paws always worked, and he was always able to walk or crawl or peel the skin off ripe guja fruits and climb trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A three-piece band in the wings of the tiny stage was beginning to thump through “You Are My Lucky Star.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An occasional Methodist is welcomed, and once in a while a Democrat infiltrates, but on the whole the Establishment is composed of right- wing Republicans of the Presbyterian and Episcopalian faiths. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were very small—barely the size of her hand, tiny humanoid beings with butterfly-like wings in riotous shades of gold and orange. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Darkness swells in my blood as though great black wings beat inside me and above me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

One even had the head of a fly and a stunted pair of semi-transparent wings. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the moon had traveled halfway across the sky and Dustfinger was still sitting on the roof, the fairy with the butterfly wings grew impatient. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about the bird with the broken wing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We spread our arms like wings, and when we fall down in the grass, we breathe hard and laugh and the world moves around us in dizzy ways. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On her sleeve there clung, winged and taloned, a dragon no longer than her hand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he touched them there was pain, and wings tore from their backs that they might go where they wished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The owl wiped tears from his eyes with a snowy wing as he hooted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His only answer was a buried white feather, a distant memory of wings against the sky, and a feeling of weightlessness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She prods the chicken, flexes a wing, pokes a finger into the cavity, fishes out the giblets. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the NACAs great contributions to aerodynamics was a series of laminar flow airfoils, wing shapes designed to maximize the flow of smooth air around the wing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was washing wool on the bank of the River Kan. Suddenly a noise like the fluttering of the wings of a frightened bird was heard ... and a kind of swell came up the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the adult butterfly is fully formed within the pupa, and the outside conditions are just right, the walls become transparent, revealing a glimpse of wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The owl broke into laughter again: “Oh, hahahaheeheeheehohoho. It is the easiest bet I ever made! It’ll be like taking the wings off a dead butterfly.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I struggled against the weight of their bodies, until it was no longer hands that held me, but wings of blood-gummed feathers studded with a thousand eyes and writhing tongues. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted entry was cold and bare, lit by the same harsh light as the Grisha cells in the prison wing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They had dry, brittle wings like corn- husks, and tufts of white hair like corn silk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bunks for non-Arcanum students were on the fourth floor of the east wing of Mews, farthest from the bathing facilities on the ground floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The plane had to be light, so no matter how tired she felt, she dared not rest her spirit on a wing but continuously and gently pushed up on the plane’s belly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie closed her eyes and saw a gigantic seabird fly by: its wings were massive—huge and dark. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The eagle’s wings were open and looked like raised shoulders. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something happens to him, then the part that is the wings in me would die. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

John Henry pounded his fist on the ground, sending tremors through the whole forest, and I flinched as hundreds of butterflies took flight in a flurry of silent wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With her wings snapping to gain speed, the great bird aims for Alice, who ducks her head just in time. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The claws dug hard in Ogion's wrist; the barred wings trembled; the round, gold eye was dull and wild. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

While John watched, the Power struck someone, a man or woman; they cried out, a long, wordless crying, and, arms outstretched like wings, they began the Shout. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“My dear,” said Aslan to the Horse, “would you like to be a winged horse?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Archer made the sign for the book, flapping his open palms like wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It's bad enough in the wings, and I realize the courage it actually takes to get onstage and tell the truth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

From the window came a flutter of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the sweeping sound made by the Po-2s’ canvas wings as they dived low over the German troops in the dark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The wings of birds that had been sleeping flapped in surprise. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Besides, though the ornate dragon’s wings that adomed die helm were splendid to look upon, they could too easily catch a sword or axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I need to run, to fly, beating my wings so hard I can’t hear anything over the pounding of my heart. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Before she could try her wings, the phone rang. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t mean Ophie was alone: a little girl with pale blond braids and a pinafore sat curled up in a wing chair, reading a book. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Director’s office is in the administration building—basically, it’s a wing of the Hub connected by a narrow, windowless hallway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Scipio was still looking at the shattered wing. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Min had shaped and then carved the clay to form curve of wing and tilt of head. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It stomped through the marsh grasses, wings spread wide, honking loudly. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They crept down the hall, then headed back down the English wing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I am under his wing, and I am in his heart. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They didn’t look like angel wings at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Scipio had wrapped the wing in a blanket as soon as he'd heard voices. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Her wings had gotten wet, and she was drowning. So I plucked her from the water and wrapped her in fern fronds to dry.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are mountain trolls riding Graphorns through Hungary, there are giants with winged tattoos on their backs walking through the Greek Seas, and the werewolves have gone entirely underground — HARRY: Great, let’s get out there. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

After I glued both wings on, the plane got too big to stick back in its box, so I had to hide it under a pillowcase on the top shelf in my closet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Above them in the sour red skies, things were circling on huge black wings. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were dragonlike creatures with wings, whose look turned men to stone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turn from the birdbath and smile and holler, “Hi, Aibee. I love you, Aibee,” and I feel a tickly feeling, soft like the flap a butterfly wings, watching her play out there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their clapping was joined by the sudden rustling of wings overhead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pastor Patton, arms raised so his robe looked like wings, reminded Stella of Spoon Man’s eagle—perched and waiting. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It made a sound like a paper bird flapping its wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and saw what he imagined was the great wing of an eagle pouring a wet lightness over him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He says fly, and Daniel flaps his wings. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He felt it for a moment, his fingers passing over the wings and the breast. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Sophia made me break his back"—her voice cracks—"and refashion the bones into a pair of wings." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She tells us about their patterns and to look for ones with a giant dot on each wing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could no longer hear the buzzing of cruel insect wings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Over the next couple of years, Charles had the drawing room made bigger and added a kitchen wing so there would be more room for the growing number of servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my bruised throat, recalling the rustling of many wings and the low roar of the Atlantic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t know which routes Pearl might take from class to class—would she take the main stairwell, with its crush of students, or the back one that led down to the English wing? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the thing that flew down swept them aside with a brutal blow from her wing, and then settled heavily on a ledge just above the children’s heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her blue coat was spread out, and it covered them both like wide wings, covered even the chair my brother was sitting in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She is a birdlike woman, and her arms—up to her head, elbows out—look like wings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be fine,” Icarus said, as his father finished the right wing. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Muscles liquefy and reorganize themselves around groups of cells called “imaginal discs,” creating brand-new body parts: wings, legs, antennae, and so on. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeves, the white eyelet blouse had frills at the shoulder, floppy as the wings of a new angel. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Frightful clutched the food in her talons and beak, and with deep wing beats was airborne. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I fall into the dirt, breathing and gasping and crying—seems like all I ever do is cry—and the dragonflies with their crystal wings still don’t pay me any mind. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Their little waists rose up tight and slender in the middle, and their cheeks were red and their eyes bright, under the wings of shining, sleek hair. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her heart flutter like butterfly wings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The engineers provided Hoover with long equations defining the relationships between wing shape and aerodynamic performance and instructed her to substitute into them other equations, formulas, and variables. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair was thick, curly, the color of a blackbird’s wings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just before sundown he spread his wings and soared out over the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“So it’s all the way down in the other wing.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There could be no objection, however, to sending the stranger on an adventure, him and his winged horse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using her magnifying glass, she peered at their wings and discovered a series of scales overlapping in regular patterns, “like the feathers of multicolored chickens.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Its wings were spread as if preparing to fly, and its hooked talons pierced the boy’s heart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though it could fly short distances, its wing hadn’t yet healed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If her wings had been solar panels, Nike would’ve produced enough energy to power Miami. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When Harry relieved this owl of its burden, it ruffled its feathers importantly, stretched its wings, and took off through the window into the night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His elbows stuck up from the ground like two broken wings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He took a wad of bubble gum from his mouth and winged it against his dresser mirror. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Waver your wings all the time, like me, instead of doing these jumps with them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great hawk came down with loud-beating wings and lighted on his wrist. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was struggling, unable to fly, its body and wings coated with grime. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I spent mine in the soundproof booths of the music wing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the bubbling swamp and the rustle of paper wings. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The wing's not in the dining room either,” Hornet whispered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Jack saw that the creatures pulling the sleigh were not winged horses at all, but a pack of horse-size white wolves with fur that glimmered in the moonlight. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One embryonic segment becomes the second section of the thorax and grows two wings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

However, his arms encircled the angel’s wings, cramping them to his side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my...You know what? Let’s forget it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In one fluid movement, she lifts from the rim of the nest, wings expanding with the thinning tree cover to a full spread. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I could hear her groaning behind the door, so I hurried on around the corner to the bathroom in the next wing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her long pointed wings; wide shoulders; and strong, tapered body were sculpted by the wind, the open sky, and the nature of her ancestral prey—swift birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I drop my head and turn so that the white wings hide my face, and keep walking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry lost the thread of his thoughts for a moment and Hedwig did nothing to help him retrieve it, but continued to sit with her head under her wing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a squeal and a beating of wings. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the papers fold themselves into elaborate shapes: pyramids and helixes and paper birds with rustling wings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their scheduled victim was in the wings somewhere. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Stately wings soar on either side, somehow both heavy and light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If only I had wings, he thought, I could fly to her. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She gave a hard violent jerk at the string on the chickens’ legs, and with a squawk and a wild fluttering of wings, the chickens ran back down the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one hemlock tree among millions came to mind, and she lifted her wings to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It is powerful, I know, but you must respect my relationship with the winged ones and listen closely.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every day, new ideas and images flew from the wood-and-iron presses like birds: a river filled with gold, fish with wings, a lizard as big as an elephant. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“One would think the child had wings, at the very least.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like it was made of beaten gold, complete with delicate roses and a glittering butterfly whose wings reminded Aru of stained glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Dumbledore’s reading what signs?” said Ron, looking per- Hedwig gave him an extremely offended look and took off for the open window, cuffing him around the head with her outstretched wing as she went. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boy made a bow and retreated a couple of yards and was joined by four other children who had come up, unnoticed by me, and were waiting in what would have been the wings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw did not know which were worse, moths alive, with their whirring, pattering wings, or these moths, flattened and pinned and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"When you come to the chamber of the Undying, be patient. Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth's wing to them. Listen well, and write each word upon your heart." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Forest giants like hemlock, Douglas fir, and Sitka spruce waited in the wings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Oppie called to tell him he would rejoin the Berkeley faculty after all, Lawrence responded, “Good, I can clip your wings a little.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He reaches around to preen his wing as a group of preschoolers leans over the wharf railing, dropping rocks off the side. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheer terror of it all put wings on my feet! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the hospital wing at noon the next day, it was to find an almost deserted castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But it is wonderful to see the butterfly or moth emerging and watch its crumpled wings become flat and strong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it folded its great wings, Harry looked up and saw it had a long, sharp golden beak and a beady black eye. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Elegantly he folded his wings to his body and stood tall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The squirrel leapt on the wings of the wind and clung to another standing tree, eating downwards. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We continued to see each other in the music wing, but these interactions remained platonic, as if neither one of us wanted to mess with a good thing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why won’t this three-eyed crow come to us? Why couldn’t he meet us at the Wall? Crows have wings. My brother grows weaker every day. How long can we go on?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bod had grown up in a graveyard and was used to images of winged people, but the angels on the headstones looked nothing like this. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The butterfly dipped up and down, and its black-spotted yellow wings flapped slowly, as if teasing the little girl. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gossamer wings and green nails, horns and fangs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A gray bird circled, glided downward on outspread wings, then flew rapidly across the fields and disappeared from sight. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good, no? And it’s so true. Without love, we are birds with broken wings. “ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about the sky and the birds and wings and wind in my face, like I used to before bed. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the last two minutes there had been sounds of interest but not of danger—a snap and then a whistle like that of the wings of a wild dove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother Defile who died with a bald head in a prison, because God had given her wings. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The buzzing of grasshopper wings came from the weeds in the yard, and the sound made his backbone loose. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful shook her feathers, stretched one wing, and glanced out at the mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

An explosion of caws and shrieks erupted around her as two dozen wings started flapping at the same time. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Harry strode confidently out from the wings, looking so handsome I could hardly believe he was the same boy who’d been staring up at his ceiling, wracked with grief, only an hour before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if she just paused a moment, she would be able to gather it in her wings and drink until she was full. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he opened his mouth to speak, his lies turned to pale grey moths and took wing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lifted her chin and said with decision, “I’ll take the fox wings, please, good sir.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Your rooms are up the staircase to the north wing; this is the southern staircase." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In alarm, they panicked, tried to fly through the links Nokomis had woven, and caught a foot, a wing, a tiny head. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

For a moment she could almost see him sweeping across the sky, his black wings swallowing the stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There are a lot of mysterious stories associated with this wing. Did your client tell you about them?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bats were so stiff that Luxa and Henry had to lift them off the roaches and help straighten out their wings. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rode a strong wind eastward, her wings outstretched, her feet pressed against her tail, the sun shining through her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The owl’s pure-white plumage was broken only by a few brown bars on the wing and some dark spots on the crown. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I feel the unrestrained emotion in his lips, feel it unburying, unleashing something in me, something daring and fearless and winged. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She thought they might once have had faces, might even once have been dogs; but no dogs had wings like bats or could hang, like spiders, like bats, upside down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But those wings - they were polished gold, right down to the last feather. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After a minute’s weaving about through the whirl of rainbow feathers, he noticed a large silver key that had a bent wing, as if it had already been caught and stuffed roughly into the keyhole. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A bat winged in from the darkness and circled the tallow candle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flapped their wings as they ran straight at the horde of frenzied poxies that surged at us as one. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon fell limp on her shoulder and flapped his gorgeous wings once or twice before fainting, and the woman herself seemed to be unable to stand fully upright. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Errol!” said Ron, taking the limp owl from Percy and extracting a letter from under its wing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She promulgated this philosophy with disastrous effects to two southern belles whom she took under her wing in order to renovate their backward minds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he hovered, his body rising and falling between his wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was closer, I could see that his wings smoldered. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Daenerys Targaryen was taking wing, Nurse had been clapping irons round their ankles to make certain they would not attempt escape on their way back to their master. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like having a chestful of bats, beating their wings, fighting to get out. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The winged beasts clawed at their smaller opponents, but the fairies adroitly evaded the blows and slashed off their wings, sending the gargoyles hurtling to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After they ate bag lunches next to the bronze lions on the steps of the museum, they fanned out in the European wing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a second that kick of his wings had lost its effect, and the ground was welling up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tent was dark, its silken walls flapping like wings when the wind gusted outside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Arranged all in a row were several of these animal bushes—fantastic creatures as tall as the house, standing guard against the woods—including a winged griffin, a rearing centaur, and a mermaid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Pressed in the front seat between his parents, he could see only the winged woman careening off the nose of the car. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass the children’s grave with the overflowing brown and crispy flowers, fluttering in the wind like cockroach wings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Here, Louis,” he said, “wave your wing on my fire. Slow, man, slow and even.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cupid became visible—a lean, muscular young man with snowy white wings, straight black hair, a simple white frock and jeans. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pain as I have never known, and coldness, and nausea, and the great buzzing over my head flapping like a thousand wings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a definite shape—a bird with folded wings, like a quail or something. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They have high white wings on their backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t they magnificent? Thirteen has been studying their aerodynamics here for years. Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour. If only I could build you wings like these, Katniss!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Bones stuck out of his back like truncated wings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A brown lark-like parent winged down and stuffed its open beak. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gulls wheeled in the air and rode, with folded wings, on the waves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I loved those ugly little bats, the way they darted past, their wings in a furious blur. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first one was shaking her wings, shaking her hair, stretching each leg in turn, and flexing her claws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“When I was a child, I loved chasing aku. It was just play, though, because if you really wanted to catch them, you waited till evening, when they all lost their wings and fell down.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are no magazines in the waiting room, no television, only a collection of matching wing chairs lined up against the walls and a water fountain at one end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up in the noisy, chlorine-scented wing of the athletic building where, through a wide window on the fourth floor, they watched swimmers crossing from end to end in glaring turquoise pools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When at last he blew out his lamp, Johnny had made an exact replica of the winged woman, only larger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghostly flames danced on the beautiful palaces beneath Old Familiar’s wings, somehow throwing off real heat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And when the waves and the winds smack at them, they spread their wings and skitter around and then they try to come back together again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They cackled and flapped, the sun shining blue on their glossy wings, beaks sharp as hay hooks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was nothing special as Sparra habitations went: a straw palliasse, some butterfly wings stuck to the wall by way of decoration. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, Arthur had fought with the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then you looked down at the second wing, which was crushed. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a fraction of a second Baruch had leapt on it, and Balthamos was twisting to free his wings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She lived in a house that had pillars in the front and a wing on each side and statues on the lawn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then the great wings of the aerial assassin began to row the air, but reluctant and undecided. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out it flies, delighting in its new-found freedom, its dark hooded beak and tiny head drooping like its sex between arching wings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She felt the brush of fur-soft wings against her lips, but that was all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the wings, I’m helping Siraj climb out of the bottom half of the box. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A few giants threw javelins, and one flew straight between the wings of the plane, but the machine guns blazed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a shivery, rustling sound to his left, like the flapping of a paper wing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z