Crossword-Solution: WINGY 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

This line becomes clearer if it is recast: "And when his own arms glittering he did spy ..."} 5 Or clashing heard, he fast away did fly, fly > flee 6 As ashes pale of hue, and wingy-heeled; wingy > {Having wings; here in the manner of Mercury} 7 And evermore on Danger fixed his eye, 8 Gainst whom he always bent a brazen shield, Gainst > Against bent > directed 9 Which his right hand, unarmed, fearfully did wield.

Also, Three-Pea Ginger, Stousher, and Wingy, for some participation in the row amongst the aforementioned ladies.

Fond he surveys thy mild maternal face, His bashful eye still kindling as he views, And, while thy lenient arm supports his pace, With beating heart the upland path pursues: The path that leads, where, hung sublime, And seen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite His wingy nerves to climb.

Perhaps the following paragraph enables us to understand the permanent temper of his mind most truly: "As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.

Vane acknowledges himself that his {275} thought is "knotty and abstruce." In religious matters his mind was always labouring, without success, to find a clear guiding clue through a maze and confusion of ideas, which fascinated him, and he allowed his mind to get lost in what Sir Thomas Browne calls "wingy mysteries." He had no sound principle of Scripture interpretation, but allowed his untrained and unformed imagination to run wild.