Plumage

Examples

• Yes; there it lies on its side, dried up; except for its plumage, very like myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Cockatoo of transcendent plumage: attraction, of himself, to all visitors of taste. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such a night for plumage! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Jane, be still; don't struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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