winge
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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To some of the Welsh fans, given the grief you gave out on here last week don't winge getting some back and give over with the excuses.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2015
How often would I have gathered you together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her winge, and ye would not?
From An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) by Keynes, Geoffrey
Unhappie verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring winge for thy fast flying Thought, and fly forth to my love wheresoever she be.
From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
And thus he auntreth him to winne, And berth an horn and noght ne bloweth, For noman of his conseil knoweth; What he mai gete of his Michinge, It is al bile under the winge.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
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