After a little while, the organ loft seemed cozy; the carved wings cupping them could have been the natural sides of a nesting-crevice, and although Haspur were quite beyond nesting in cliffs, they still reacted well to such surroundings.

The 'thopter glided in, its wings cupped.

The falcon plummeted from the sky, beak open, wings cupping the air to slow his descent, talons spread to catch his prey.

The guard now on his feet hurled himself courageously at Doug, wings partly extended and cupped to strike.

He galloped toward them, wings cupped, slowing, and skidded to a halt beside them.

Then he saw the lead craft in the moonlight, the way its wings cupped to brake for landing, the reckless dash of the hands at the controls.

Even if it is within range, getting on a bird flying at 40 or 50 miles an hour is much more difficult than hitting one that, wings cupped and feet down in preparation for landing, has virtually stalled in midair.

Tadrith banked in over the platform and pulled up, to stall in midair and then fall, wings cupped, to land standing on one foot, then two, and from then to all fours without any sound louder than the creak of the platform accepting his weight.

Their wings cupping the thin air they streamed toward the mountainside.