slow-winged

Then a slow-winged shadow, passing between him and the ceiling with puling cry, startled him to the truth.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

Little punts were detaching themselves from the larger drifters and flitting about on the sea like slow-winged moon-butterflies.

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

Already the air was darkened by flocks of pampas kites, among them many slow-winged vultures, and I knew the awful feast that ever follows slaughter had already commenced.

Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

Harry had not had the training of Walter, whom my father had taught -- not commencing with stationary objects, but with targets thrown in the air, and small, slow-winged birds as they flitted near the ground.

Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847