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    1. "But that cannot be my name!" he replied, showing Adam his impressive plumage


    2. I stand by the rail, stroking the bird’s plumage


    3. ’ He said, peering at the plumage intently


    4. I am called upon to admire this one’s plumage, and that one’s clarity of eye … all the while aware that these birds are watching me with more intelligence than I am used to seeing in an avian


    5. I sat awhile and then continued my walk in an anti clock direction until I came to a spot with a view of the lower river, and here concentrated, where a flock of young swans some loosing their grey plumage and a few others with a full set of the bright white plumage


    6. Bob the Buho’s camouflage, found in other species of Mother Nature’s children, is not only created by the darkness of his environment when he is out on the hunt, but also his plumage itself is skillfully adapted to blend in with the colors, textures, and patterns of his surroundings


    7. Discretely passing on to you though the inside scoop in this tale (Shhh, don’t tell anyone, okay?), his almost noiseless flight is due to his unique plumage and the structure and alignment of the individual feathers themselves


    8. The rest were mere objects of vulgar wonder and curiosity ; some reeds of an extraordinary size, some birds of a very beautiful plumage, and some stuffed skins of the huge alligator and manati ; all of which were preceded by six or seven of the wretched natives, whose singular colour and appearance added greatly to the novelty of the show


    9. Giselle stretched her impressive wings before folding them into her plumage


    10. Park released the bird, smiled as he stroked its colored plumage, then replaced it in the cage, and now the bird was affronted

    11. Her plumage was of a luminous red gold and many more colors that cannot be described


    12. His plumage was fire, opposite what one would have imagined from seeing his eyes that raged with the strength and color of the clearest blue seas


    13. plumage that, even if it were to have several days of food and


    14. So Edwin sat on the floor and shivered, his plumage ruffled against the night-time chill


    15. and flail melted into plumage


    16. A leaf quake denounced the presence of a bird of singular plumage


    17. One was of a peacock with its plumage displayed the other was of a knight slaying a dragon


    18. By the time they are five months old and have molted into their adult plumage, male budgies are easily recognized by their blue ceres


    19. And even vanity has a very long tradition, which shouldn’t be surprising when one considers the plumage display of a peacock


    20. As Juko plodded along beside Kai, T'tembo and the others, he could think of no other time in his life when he had felt more uncomfortable than he did right then, dressed head to toe in colorful plumage and scale-like armor

    21. Human females wear feathers, high plumes, extravagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in movies, in operas, in ballet, in clubs


    22. Thus setting out, our new-fledged adventurer paced along, talking to himself and saying, "Who knows but that in time to come, when the veracious history of my famous deeds is made known, the sage who writes it, when he has to set forth my first sally in the early morning, will do it after this fashion? 'Scarce had the rubicund Apollo spread o'er the face of the broad spacious earth the golden threads of his bright hair, scarce had the little birds of painted plumage attuned their notes to hail with dulcet and mellifluous harmony the coming of the rosy Dawn, that, deserting the soft couch of her jealous spouse, was appearing to mortals at the gates and balconies of the Manchegan horizon, when the renowned knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, quitting the lazy down, mounted his celebrated steed Rocinante and began to traverse the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel;'" which in fact he was actually traversing


    23. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de' Medici


    24. But the child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird, of rich plumage, ready to take flight into the upper air


    25. The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal


    26. She made the sombre crowd cheerful by her erratic and glistening ray; even as a bird of bright plumage illuminates a whole tree of dusky foliage, by darting to and fro, half seen and half concealed amid the twilight of the clustering leaves


    27. At first I thought that it was a jay, but it was larger, with a brighter plumage


    28. Then, sinking his head deeply into his soft plumage, he settled himself to wait


    29. Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the sky, some pulsating quickly, some contorted, some stretched out—all of them writhing in agony, except the fortunate ones whose tortures had ended during the night by the inability of nature to bear more


    30. Its plumage was the blue and orange of jungle flowers, flamestitched in black

    31. But for his insistence she would have taken no rest: her brightness was all bedimmed; unconscious of her costume which had always been so fresh and gay, she was like a sick bird with languid eye and plumage ruffled, her senses dulled to the sights and sounds that used most to interest her


    32. Vincy, roused by this appeal and adjusting herself with a little shake as of a bird which lays down its ruffled plumage


    33. Suckling pig was served at the high table; a peacock roasted in its plumage; a great pike crusted with crushed almonds


    34. “Begging your Pardon, Sir,” said Paul, quite wither’d from the Tongue-lashing, “I was merely admiring the young Lady’s Plumage and thinking how rare ’tis, i’faith, that the Tail Feathers are of the self-same Hue as those on high, for, as Horace says, ‘Mutum est pictura poema,’ or, for those ignorant of Latin, ‘A Picture is a silent Poem,’ and what is this Lady’s precious Cunnicle but a Picture, which e’en if we ne’er enter it, we can nonetheless enjoy with our Eyes


    35. I hadn’t smelled since I inhaled its tart scent, hadn’t touched since I held its hand-grenade body and the blades of its plumage pricked my pale throat


    36. Otherwise, their plumage is uniformly electric, impractical and disjunctive with the seriousness they bring to the project of physical self-improvement


    37. The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless


    38. They are deformed, and they complete themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their rigmarole resembles their plumage


    39. This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove


    40. The hardwood floor was polished so severely it glowed like a dark river upon which floated throw-rugs whose plumage resembled South American wild birds, flashing electric blues, whites, and jungle greens

    41. Brocklehurst’s nose, that he was within a yard of me, and that a spread of shot orange and purple silk pelisses and a cloud of silvery plumage extended and waved below me


    42. bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation


    43. On the sea terrace, sitting on his private ring, was a cockatoo from Malaya, with unbelievable white plumage and a pensive tranquillity that gave one much to think about: it was the most beautiful animal that Florentino Ariza had ever seen


    44. Instead of all that deadly white the courtyard was now a blaze of colours; glossy chestnut sides of centaurs, indigo horns of unicorns, dazzling plumage of birds, reddy-brown of foxes, dogs and satyrs, yellow stockings and crimson hoods of dwarfs; and the birch-girls in silver, and the beech-girls in fresh, transparent green, and the larch-girls in green so bright that it was almost yellow


    45. The rock-thrush of Guiana, birds of paradise, and some others, congregate, and successive males display with the most elaborate care, and show off in the best manner, their gorgeous plumage; they likewise perform strange antics before the females, which, standing by as spectators, at last choose the most attractive partner


    46. Some well-known laws, with respect to the plumage of male and female birds, in comparison with the plumage of the young, can partly be explained through the action of sexual selection on variations occurring at different ages, and transmitted to the males alone or to both sexes at corresponding ages; but I have not space here to enter on this subject


    47. What can be more singular than the relation in cats between complete whiteness and blue eyes with deafness, or between the tortoise-shell colour and the female sex; or in pigeons, between their feathered feet and skin betwixt the outer toes, or between the presence of more or less down on the young pigeon when first hatched, with the future colour of its plumage; or, again, the relation between the hair and the teeth in the naked Turkish dog, though here no doubt homology comes into play? With respect to this latter case of correlation, I think it can hardly be accidental that the two orders of mammals which are most abnormal in their dermal covering, viz


    48. With the barb-pigeon, for instance, which very rarely produces a blue bird, it is probable that there is a latent tendency in each generation to produce blue plumage


    49. We have differences correlated not only with one sex, but with that short period when the reproductive system is active, as in the nuptial plumage of many birds, and in the hooked jaws of the male salmon


    50. A trace of the law of embryonic resemblance occasionally lasts till a rather late age: thus birds of the same genus, and of allied genera, often resemble each other in their immature plumage; as we see in the spotted feathers in the young of the thrush group








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