wing beat

noun

There is no need, here, to muffle the sound of the wing-beat.

But the first wing-beat of true love sends it far beyond such struggles.

The first wing-beat hurled Professor Ravenden headlong with a broken collar-bone.

Gliding over the slough, it took the swimming muskrat in both claws and never missed a wing beat as it flew on.

But as the wing-beat increased in speed the lower loop gradually faded out.

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