When he came to where the strap was hanging he tied the wings all in a bunch to the end of the line, and the Wizard drew them up.
Then, with the Wizard's help, he tried to fasten some of the wings to the old cab-horse.
For suppose the correlative of 'the slave' should be said to be 'the man', or the correlative of 'the
wing"the bird'; if the attribute 'master' be withdrawn from' the man', the correlation between 'the man' and 'the slave' will cease to exist, for if the man is not a master, the slave is not a slave.
Past experience suggested that the great wings were a part of some ingenious mechanical device, for the limitations of the human mind, which is always loath to accept aught beyond its own little experience, would not permit him to entertain the idea that the creatures might be naturally winged and at the same time of human origin.
Then his captor did that which proved beyond doubt to Bradley that he was in the hands of human beings who had devised an almost perfect scheme of duplicating, mechanically, the wings of a bird--the thing spoke to its companion and in a language that Bradley partially understood, since he recognized words that he had learned from the savage races of Caspak.
The meaning of rudimentary organs is often quite unmistakeable: for instance there are beetles of the same genus (and even of the same species) resembling each other most closely in all respects, one of which will have full-sized
wings, and another mere rudiments of membrane; and here it is impossible to doubt, that the rudiments represent
wings.
I notice you don't ever wear
wings - and plenty others don't.
Then, with a great deal of chattering and noise, the
Winged Monkeys flew away to the place where Dorothy and her friends were walking.
Then there was a great bustle, as they flew about on shining
wings, some laying cushions of violet leaves in the boat, others folding the Queen's veil and mantle more closely round her, lest the falling dews should chill her.
"Why, he could be a reptile; anything that hasn't
wings is a reptile."
Each of the four
wings was first lightly covered with a layer.
An adept at
winged blackmail, he had no aptitude for
wings himself, and when he gazed down at the flying land and water far beneath him, he did not feel moved to attack his captor, now defenseless, both hands occupied with flight.
Wing Biddlebaum, forever frightened and beset by a ghostly band of doubts, did not think of himself as in any way a part of the life of the town where he had lived for twenty years.
After passing the donjon, which is situated at the extreme end of the left
wing, we went to the back of the chateau.
"But do you think for a moment that I would permit you, or anyone else, to pull the left
wing from a yellow butterfly?" demanded the Tin Woodman sternly.
