wingy
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Origin of wingy
Example Sentences
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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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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 Maurice Francis Egan
A moment she posed thus, beyond doubt a being capable of expounding all wingy mysteries of any soul whatsoever.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
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 Alexander Whyte
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