“A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
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Part III, No. 5 - Walton's Book of Lives. Compare: "The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing / Made of a quill from an angel's wing", Henry Constable, Sonnet; "Whose noble praise / Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing", Dorothy Berry, Sonnet.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“Like a trembling hind pursued by a Hyrcanian tigress, or like a pigeon that checks her flight when she sees a hawk in the sky, or like a hare that dives into the thicket at sight of the eagle hovering with outstretched wings in the cloudless sky.”
...ceu tigride cerva
Hyrcana cum pressa tremit, vel territa pennas
colligit accipitrem cernens in nube columba,
aut dumis subit, albenti si sensit in aethra
librantem nisus aquilam, lepus.
Book V, lines 280–284
Punica
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
(31st January 1829) Lines to the Author after Reading the Sorrows of Rosalie
The London Literary Gazette, 1829
“Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.”
Lodgings for Single Gentlemen, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.”
New Poems, No. 9, My Delight and Thy Delight http://www.poetry-online.org/bridges_my_delight.htm, st. 1 (1899).
Poetry
“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
Source: The God of Small Things