Example Sentences

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Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the friar was persistent and patient, and in the end the last knot ran loose, and our cocassier was unpinioned.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

So without losing time he caused his sister to be unpinioned, and Nuzhat al-Zaman came up to him and kissed his hands, whilst her eves ran over with tears.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Her manner is much unpinioned to what it was, though her person remains as stately as ever; and powder is vastly preferable to those brown hairs, of whose preservation she was so fond.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

While this portion of the meal was under discussion their minds moved free, unpinioned, with airy lightness, over all manner of topics.

From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher