First Oscar-winning film

Usage examples of wings.

They ran alongside the flyer as he came in, and helped to stop him, and afterward they did something to his wings that made them collapse.

The two of them folded up the wings, slowly and with care, while the flyer undid the straps that bound them to his body.

On the ledge Gina and Tor unfolded her wings and locked the struts in place, and the tissue metal stretched tight and taut and silvery.

She tied the wings carefully to a tether rope, then walked out to a wingtip and began to fold them up.

Maris often had seen flyers, impatient with their land-bound help, draw their almost-open wings up and shake out the last joint or two with a sharp snap.

They might take your wings away and give them to someone with more respect, like they did to Lind the smuggler.

The first-born child of each of the flying families would inherit the wings of the parent.

Russ said goodnight just inside the door and took the wings upstairs with him.

Anni of Culhall, the boy Jamis the Younger, Helmer of Greater Amberly, whose own daughter would claim his wings in less than a year, a half-dozen others from the West, three cliquish Easterners.

The Old Captain and his crew, they were flyers too, though their wings were star-wings.

They were giving her the name of flyer even as they took away her wings, Maris thought.

Landsman handed the folded wings to Russ, who took them and turned to Coll.

Coll to accept them, and it would be folly to strap on wings in a house.

Alone by the edge, Russ, one-handed and disdaining help, strapped the wings onto his son.

He stood very still while Russ unfolded the wings, and looked straight down at the abyss before him, where dark waves clawed against the beach.