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• Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
• Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.
• Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.
• An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion of his wing [...]
• They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
• When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.
• The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.
• Suppoſe, thou Fortune could to tameneſs bring, // And clip or pinion her wing; // Suppoſe thou could’ſt on Fate ſo far prevail // As not to cut off thy Entail.
• They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.
• The two old ducks…being pinioned, could not fly away.
• “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
• Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
• Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.
• I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.
• A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
• 1597: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II.v (William Shakespeare): Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
• 1839: The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe): Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.
• 1607: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare): An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion' of his wing ...
• 1844: The Premature Burial (Edgar Allan Poe): A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
• 1607: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare): Know, sir that I / Will not wait piniond at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.