Feathers

Examples

• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They pluck his feathers now and then and clip his wings, but he sings, he sings! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I congratulate you on your feathers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Are my feathers so very much rumpled? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That is a beautiful plume of white ostrich-feathers in your bonnet. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She looked down at her Viennese fan of eagle feathers, and he saw that her lips trembled. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I don't like fuss and feathers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• 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. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He took a fine name to match his fine feathers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Hairs, like feathers, are long and elaborately specialized scales. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tomorrow I shall put away my 'fuss and feathers' and be desperately good again, she answered with an affected little laugh. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I thought so the other day, when I met her galloping about, with her feathers blowing, and her thick dark hair about her ears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The tail has a terminal dark bar, with the outer feathers externally edged at the base with white. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The noise of wheels and tread of people were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth with feathers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This oil sheds the water from the back of a duck as soon as it strikes the feathers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The dog's great eyes and long ears, and the child's hat and feathers, were irresistible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Empt some more feathers into the bed-tick, and keep up yer heart. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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