Usage examples (29)

• 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...
• What a strong contrast to long-legged, relatively short-winged pterodactyloids like the azhdarchids.
• In front of it several short-winged biplanes are lined up; inside it three or four young men are lolling in wicker chairs.
• Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry.