wing-weary

American  

[wing-weer-ee] / ˈwɪŋˌwɪər i /

adjective

1. tired from flying or traveling.

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wing-weary

The tame honey-bees seemed languid and wing-weary, as if they had come all the way up from the flowerless valley.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir

Said one to me: "I seem to be— Like a bird blown out to sea, In the hurricane's wild track— Lost, wing-weary, beating back Vainly toward a fading shore, It shall rest on nevermore."

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor

For man may stumble in a furrow; the stag tumble from a cliff; the hawk, wing-weary and beaten, with darkness around him and the storm behind, may dash his brains against a tree.

From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

I think you must have been a little wing-weary when you wrote your last letter to me.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

She had returned as a dove, to the ark from the wild waste of waters, wing-weary, faint, frightened—fluttering into this holy place, conscious of safety.

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur