Surely, this time, the beating wings had flapped into quiet sooner than before?

The birds "hooked the roof," flashing the morning sun back to us with their black, white and gray beating wings.

Oh, it's the beating wings of all those chickens coming home to roost.

He could hear her heart fluttering like the beating wings of a hummingbird.

The "Whistler" name comes from the noise their beating wings make in flight.

My heart was racing in time with its beating wings.

The griffin's beating wings hurled the air of its passage into his face.

I have lost sight of the beating wings of art.

Her voice was restless, like the beating wings of a bird in a snowstorm.

They made night of day, made the air quake with their beating wings.