gray-winged

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A gray-winged vapor sails.

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  • A gray-winged vapor sails. —  The Complete Works of Whittier
  • A gray-winged hawk swept wide and easily along the surface of the earth on its morning hunting trip. —  The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
  • With the stillness of shadows they were stealing through the moonlit corridors of the wilderness, or hovering gray-winged and ghostly in the ambuscades of the treetops, eager to waylay and kill, hungering for the flesh and blood of creatures weaker than themselves. —  The Country Beyond
  • The long sinuous line of channel, fading with the light and ebbing with the tide, began to give off here and there light puffs of gray-winged birds like sudden exhalations. —  The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
  • Virginia's childish hand putting into his the gray-winged Catocala, and how the little moth, raising the sad-colored wings worn to suit his surroundings, revealed beneath that disfiguring and disguising cloak the exquisite and flower-like loveliness of the underwings. —  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
 

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