unwinged
- a word derived from winged.
Example Sentences
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The falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Or in declining to publish Mr. Leander Prawle's buncombe, which sounds somewhat after this fashion: "'Man shall one day develop to a god, Though now he walks unwinged, unaureoled....
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
It resembles no insect, winged or unwinged, which the fish can have seen.
From Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools by Baker, Emilie Kip
This path struck over hill and down dale in a somewhat dogged and straightforward manner, scorning to go round hillocks, save when too precipitous for unwinged animals.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.
Their form was upright and unwinged, but more than this we could not see.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
