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Examples
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There hope crept in, -- a faint, weary-winged, bedraggled hope, it is true, -- to comfort him a little.
The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905
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Over these the frail thing of cloth and little strips of wood and wire and the delicate, dumb motor, skimmed like a weary-winged bird.
Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905
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In their concentric rounds lie poised the planets, like weary-winged cup-bearers, circling about their sleepless lord.
The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902
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As the weary-winged dove seeks at night-fall her nest.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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