Meanings of protecting wings in English

Above him he would feel the hovering of protecting wings.

Mortification averts temptations, and prayer becomes easy when we are sheltered under the protecting wings of mortification.

Must women pool their brains to have Ruth Law spread her protecting wings over our boys in France?

Under the broad protecting wings of the American eagle, my betrothed could repose in safety, until that blissful hour when-

Over went the good old canoe, her solid back to the wind; and under her protecting wings went our carton of grub.

It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood.

The protecting wings of a guardian albatross or the black shape of a coward crow afraid to strike while its prey yet breathes?

Try as they would, the Germans were unable to hurl back the British infantry, which advanced steadily under the protecting wings of countless armored tanks.

'Neath the shade of Thy protecting wings let me nestle, and cast upon me the glance of Thine all-protecting eye.

"The angels of martyrdom and victory," says Mazzini, "are brothers; both extend protecting wings over the cradle of the future life."