He could taste the shrillness of fear in his throat, but at the same time excitement fluttered inside him with soft frantic wings.

Like the frantic wings of trapped birds struggling to break free, rain and wind beat against the church.

Tolerance and mercy and kindness flapped frantic wings through the lowering sky.

He heard a brief thrumming like frantic wings.

Something fluttered overhead and whooshed away with a beat of frantic wings.

A calendar, hanging on the wall by the back door, fell to the floor with a sound like frantic wings.

His touchdown startled several quail from cover and they scattered skyward, beating at the dawn with frantic wings.

She stopped, let the wind beat its frantic wings over her, let the spray from the waves fly on her.

Pul shook his head rapidly, his ears flapping like a pair of frantic wings.

The pheasant swung away from the stick, clawing at the air with frantic wings and Garrick threw.