What is "pinions"

Usage examples of "pinions".

There was a gargantuan jumble of machineryratchets and pawls and pinions on a scale that made him feel like a flea in a tower clock.

White his raiment, from his shoulders Snowy dove-like pinions spread, And a starlike light was shining In a Glory round his head.

Then, with outspread pinions, Circling round and round, Wing their way, wherever Want and woe are found.

Like a cloud of incense their pinions rise, Fading away up the purple skies.

Until these hours of pain and care Lifted their tearful eyes, Spread their dark pinions in the air And passed into the skies.

A little Child Angel Passed down the street, With trailing pinions, And weary feet.

Go where her fluttering silver pinions Follow the track of the crimson day.

And thou, my Dove, with silver pinions Flutter again to thy quiet nest!

But its pinions grew faint and weary, And it fluttered to earth once more.

But new claims, new thoughts, new duties found her heart a silent prison, And found Love, with folded pinions, like a jailer by the gates.

Duty, Right, Truth, who promised To help and save their own, Seemed spreading wide their pinions To leave her there alone.

Safety dwells in her dominions, Health and Beauty with her move, And entwine their circling pinions In a sisterhood of love.

Wilt thou wing homeward ere the eventide, On shining pinions to thine own soft nest?

On the swift feet of verse and the pinions of rhyme My thoughts, Ulricardo, fly ever to thee!