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on the wings of
b. Attributed to inanimate or abstract things represented as flying, or as carrying one swiftly along (esp. in on the wings of).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > flying (as) with wings > one who or that which > attribute of thing represented as
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ii. i. (Add. MS. 27944) In olde tyme poetes peyntide þe winde wiþ wynges.
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. e.iv Whinges of the loue of god.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms ciii[i]. 3 Thou makest the cloudes thy charet, and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. cxxxviii[i]. 9 Yf I take the wynges of the mornynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxiii. A Riches make them selues wynges.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 59 When I should mount with wings of victorie. View more context for this quotation
1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Satyres i. 11 With inke To giue his fame large wings.
1611 W. Mure Misc. Poems iv. 8 Deceau'd by loues alluiring wingis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 196 I haue pursu'd her, as Loue hath pursued mee, which hath beene on the wing of all occasions. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Disc. i. i, in Occas. Refl. sig. B4 When a pious Soul is once got upon the wing of Contemplation.
1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs (ed. 2) ii. 253 Give me the Wings of Faith, to rise Within the Veil.
1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 89 Upon the Wings of Time born swift away.
1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. lxxv A cold north-east wind, with frost on its wing.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xix. 35 Where the foe..seems to come and go on the wings of the wind.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxii. 113 [The Scots in 1640] seemed to be, indeed, carried forward on the wings of destiny.
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