short-winged

• “Down below, the street names, the buildings, the shipyards and cemeteries are all full of ghost lives that have passed: Ezra Pound went there; Odysseus sailed by; Molly Bloom was from there and remembered its “Moorish wall”; Gilbert White knew his “soft-billed” and “short-winged” birds of passage went through there, but its people today and the people who go there seem broken and vague.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Year on the Wing

• “As Hadden and others had predicted, the Odedi proved to be a rather plain, short-winged, chestnut-coloured bush warbler.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

• “Which his father Grangousier seeing, thought they had been lice, and said unto him, What, my dear son, hast thou brought us this far some short-winged hawks of the college of Montague?”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “There was a small flier parked there, short-winged and graceful, green-backed and white-bellied.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Final Reflection

• “Now he pressed both his hands into the soft stuff of the seat and gaped at a small tri-dee on the wall facing him, a miniature scene of life on some other planet wherein a creature enveloped in short black and white striped fur crept belly flat, to stalk long-legged, short-winged birds making blood-red splotches against yellow reed banks under a pale violet sky.”

  Star Hunter

• “The former is called a long-winged hawk, or one of the _lure_; the latter, a short-winged hawk, or one of the _fist_.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828

• “Set low down under the sphere, with the whitish-gray mass beetling up over them like a curving cliff, were eyes; great, staring, dull things of the type termites have during the short-winged periods of their existences.”

  The Raid on the Termites

• “In front of it several short-winged biplanes are lined up; inside it three or four young men are lolling in wicker chairs.”

  Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun

• “What between the wretched diet, the filth, the cold, the crowding, "the short-winged hawks" that the students combed from their hair or shook from their shirts, it is no wonder that many of them fell ill.”

  The Age of the Reformation

• “They are lumpish and short-winged on the street; they labor and lumber off with a sidewise twist to their bodies that reminds one of a rheumatic old dog upon the trot.”

  Roof and Meadow

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