1.   Abroad, too, imagination took wing.

2.   Freed in the slipstream of profanity, it took wing.

3.   Often they perch on rooftops like gargoyles, waiting hours for nightfall so they can take wing.

4.   A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry squawk.

5.   Her heart had taken wing as she and Mandy had walked down into the lodge.

6.   As he fiddled, another frightened dove took wing from the bush ahead.

7.   As the business took wing, Joyce Greenberg filled order forms with a hard lead pencil, then recruited friend Louise Portier, who had a typewriter.

8.   A squadron of grouse could have taken wing and hovered within fly-swatting distance and I would have been hard pressed to raise my arms in the tangle.

9.   But now, I swear I perceive pigs taking wing.