wingy
AmericanEtymology
Origin of wingy
Example Sentences
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To other Places belonged the wingy and robed and starry and golden things that made the heavens of other lives than that which I had shared with Andriaovsky; here, white and shapely Truth alone reigned.
From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.
From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they have never stretched the membranes of mine.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
He was one of those wingy, nippy, intrepid insects that we call, vaguely, mosquitoes.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis
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