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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2015

Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014

One wing-tip scraped interlaced steel, a horizontal girder, part of the vault's mighty skeleton.

From The Great Dome on Mercury by Zagat, Arthur Leo

The bear whirled on his haunches, and struck viciously; but his claws met nothing but empty air, while a stiff wing-tip brushed smartingly across his eyes.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

If a swallow's wing-tip flicked the surface, sending down a bright little jet of bubbles, these bubbles also would double themselves in reflections as they darted up again and vanished in the mirroring ripples.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir




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