He fell down on one knee, but then got up again, circling about in one place like some sort of a broken-winged bird.

He talks of the pleasure of warm baths and the bizarre experience of physiotherapy sessions surrounded by "other broken-winged birds, voiceless parrots, ravens of doom."

And little Alice Mae, the baby, spends all her time with animals and trying to talk me into taking in every broken-winged bird in County Waterford.

She looked at him as though sorry for a broken-winged bird.

His obsession began innocently enough, with the puppies and broken-winged birds every little boy begs to bring home.

Over and over I dream a bad dream brought by a night mare, that I can no longer fly-that I am a crippled broken-winged bird.

In the Banks lexicon, troubled youngsters are broken-winged birds, unfinished homework is a dream deferred, and unmotivated students are barren fields.

It was very fast and very weak, fluttering like broken-winged bird.

The patriarch said, "You will have to learn, daughter, that you cannot nurse every broken-winged bird or wounded salamander back to health."

She felt Glynis' hand, square and solid, and remembered that there were after all many differences between her daughters: Sarah's hand in hers felt like a broken-winged bird.