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Pinions and cleats ripped free of their sockets, flew toward the massive raft, while Poyos on the pier turned about and tried to protect themselves from flying bone and wood.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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She could only stand and let the tide of love she felt sweep over her again and again, until softly and almost imperceptibly the Heavenly Pinions faded away into the blue.
Christmas Light Ethel Calvert Phillips
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Wheels and Pinions, heavy and light, remarkably strong and durable.
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Pinions of dark and pinions of day share the sky, and over all are the brooding wings of unknown presences.
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Robert, such being the full front name of the sole Heir, found that he could not spread his Pinions in the narrow Streets of the lichen - covered Hamlet.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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Robert, such being the full front name of the sole Heir, found that he could not spread his Pinions in the narrow Streets of the lichen-covered Hamlet.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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She was close now, the Angel of the Swarthy Pinions.
The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900
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Preface, 1872, To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free.
Preface, 1872, To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. Collect 1892
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Preface, 1872, to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free"
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Rodamantade as I do giving large grains of Allowance Yet cannot forbear Conceiving there is so much in it to add Pinions to the
Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731 1731
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