The glowing insects bobbed on frail wings over the phosphorescent glow of lamp-flowers.

The long, frail wings trembled as she squeezed through, and then the joy of flight took over the creature, and it plunged into the wind.

The frail and beautiful wings quivered faintly, as if his breath had for an instant called back to life that gorgeous object of his dreams.

He describes a thunderstorm as a "spectacular display of Valhallan petulance" and a youthful crush as a "storm of passion" that left "the frail wings" of his emotions "burned and blasted by love's relentless flame."

Such a plaintive sound, she thought, turning to watch one climb the sky above the cliff, seeing how it struggled against the wind, its frail wings bending and turning in the changing air currents.

Before bygone times was another time, and then ... then was childs and different things that are not any longer, many animals and birds and smaller things with frail wings unable to carry them over long time...' 'What happened?

It might have been a dead mouse but for the membrane of skin attached to it, a frail wing that had somehow outlasted the carcase.

A few insect bodies clung to the inner surface; one was alive, beginning to dry out, moving a frail wing.