Feathers

例句:

• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They pluck his feathers now and then and clip his wings, but he sings, he sings! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I congratulate you on your feathers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Are my feathers so very much rumpled? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That is a beautiful plume of white ostrich-feathers in your bonnet. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of your own bird, so if you wish-- The man burst into a hearty laugh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She looked down at her Viennese fan of eagle feathers, and he saw that her lips trembled. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It came quite close to Beth, and looked at her with a friendly eye and sat upon a warm stone, dressing its wet feathers, quite at home. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The feathers on a duck are very heavy and close together, and at the bottom of each feather is a little oil gland that supplies a certain amount of oil to each feather. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I set up both my own daughters in one when they was married, and there have been feathers enough for another in the house the last twelve months. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I don't like fuss and feathers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Of course I want to know you, my dear, cried Mrs. Struthers in a round rolling voice that matched her bold feathers and her brazen wig. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He took a fine name to match his fine feathers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Hairs, like feathers, are long and elaborately specialized scales. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tomorrow I shall put away my 'fuss and feathers' and be desperately good again, she answered with an affected little laugh. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I thought so the other day, when I met her galloping about, with her feathers blowing, and her thick dark hair about her ears. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• At all events with its feathers and its piercing point the arrow became the most deadly of all missiles, and continued to be until long after the invention of firearms. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The tail has a terminal dark bar, with the outer feathers externally edged at the base with white. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The noise of wheels and tread of people were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth with feathers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This oil sheds the water from the back of a duck as soon as it strikes the feathers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The dog's great eyes and long ears, and the child's hat and feathers, were irresistible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Empt some more feathers into the bed-tick, and keep up yer heart. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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