Like fleas and lice

Usage examples of wingless.

Daydanda thought ruefully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.

The child was certainly resourceful, Daydanda thought rue-fully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.

He is a super-bird, a wingless omnivore like me and thee, who sounds rather like Diatryma a few million years ahead of his time.

A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless.

Freaky went up over the handlebars, knocked spang out of his shitkicker boots by the impact, both of his legs trailing out behind him in crippled splendor as his body flew its short, wingless flight from the seat of his Schwinn to a stone wall where Freaky landed and spread his head like a dollop of wet glue on the rocks.

Skeggi ran down two of the auks, which, being wingless, were easy to capture.

West Virginia were being overrun with Garudas, the rest of the country was being engulfed in wingless flying objects.

Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged.

Wingless, and brokenhearted, I drifted along through the cities and nations of the earth, over continents and wastes.

The Vaughns took the usual emigrant routing: winged shuttle rocket to the inner satellite station, ugly wingless ferry rocket to the outer station, transshipment there to the great globular cargo liner Hesperus.

The Avar Bane Raum spent most of his days here, teaching the wingless youngsters about the Avar and their forest home.

The lilacs and laburnums, lit with the glory-fires of autumn, hung burning and flashing in the upper air, a fairy bridge provided by kind Nature for the wingless wild things that have their homes in the tree-tops and would visit together.

The lilacs and laburnums, lit with the glory-fires of autumn, hung burning and flashing in the upper air, a fairy bridge provided by kind nature for the wingless wild things that have their home in the tree-tops and would visit together.

Rosbone ingeniously argues that the author, a wingless neuter-female worker, yearns hopelessly to be a winged male, and to found a new colony, flying upward in the nuptial flight with a new Queen.

It was wingless, propellerless, apparently buoyed up by some kind of device unknown to the science of his day.