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    feather


    feathered


    feathering


    feathers


    1. feather to fall upon the barren rocks of our world


    2. flagstones was a reminder of life and the slightest feather touch of frayed rags on his


    3. In dreaming of a peacock sky on some far distant world, Smith allowed a feather to fall upon the barren rocks of our world


    4. The scurrying of sharp little claws on flagstones was a reminder of life and the slightest feather touch of frayed rags on his bare legs was a breath of civilisation, a small memento of his humanity


    5. each flush of the moth’s wings, catching the feather spikes


    6. into my feather coat


    7. • Woolly Bugger: The Woolly Bugger is a fly that has a very simple design with a long tail feather on the end


    8. ” Thom was trying to hide in the invisible feather chair


    9. Rayne received the Order of the Golden Feather from Lord Justin himself for her contribution


    10. A limp feather pillow completed the furnishings

    11. His suggestion carries the full weight of genuine parental concern, which hits Bex like a feather duster


    12. Rising, the feather still held firmly in her hand, she watched as Sheila approached


    13. She’d wrung its neck hastily, not wanting to hear any more, and had dropped the corpse on the mud, brushing the bits of feather off her hands almost frantically


    14. The feather edge of the tissue tickles as he bends forward and brushes his teeth


    15. It was grown above four floors of once trendy retail space just off the canal, all in airy stone block and feather ferns


    16. She felt the cool press of the feather pillow as she lay down and drew the covers up to her chin, her ginger hair resting over the side of the bed


    17. As she wondered about the pond, dressed in not only her fancy dress but also a full-length coat of velvet and fur, with her hair neatly tucked up, under a stylish hat with a feather dress, she was taken aback by the similar scene that had developed on the frozen pond


    18. The clerk stamped both cards and wrote the amount in with his feather


    19. entitled to a feather mattress


    20. Papa Dante waited until her breathing was deep and regular and then he laid her out on the sofa, covered her with a feather eiderdown, closed the shutters and left her to rest

    21. An hour later, I sat on my bed with the feather on my lap; books lay scattered around me


    22. “Um, what’s with the books?” Her hand moved to pick up the feather that lay on the coverlet from when I stood up


    23. In comparison, the feather dwarfed her hand


    24. It took me some time to explain my hallucination in the passage, my dreams, and the feather


    25. When I was finished, Willow sat in silence staring at the feather


    26. “Couldn’t this me from one of Izzy’s outfits?” She handed the feather back and I stood to place it in my dresser


    27. Simultaneously, I lit the candle, caused the water in the chalice to spin like a whirlpool, ca small bud to grow within the bowl, and made the feather float


    28. I was about to tell Izzy to pull back, when the feather twitched on a breeze and floated in the air


    29. The feather plummeted to the ground, but we were done


    30. I thought he would be heavy, but the pressure was no more than the weight of a feather

    31. To see the feather of an owl, implies that you need to share your knowledge and wisdom with others


    32. Birds of a feather, possibly,” he said jokingly


    33. And the moral of that is– “Birds of a feather flock together


    34. ” Well blow me you could have knocked me down with a feather I hadn’t seen that one coming at all no wonder I had been returned to duty not that I minded it was what I wanted


    35. Who will be the lucky one to have Diego sit in his lap? We argue over which is his favorite toy and who can coax him to spring the highest after a feather on a string


    36. She looked at me like I was dumber than dirt when I tried to play chase the feather with her


    37. “Am I to stand here and consider my fate?” Jean called through the tent wall, though Terese made no reply, the shadow of a quill feather bristling over the desk where the woman sat


    38. If he hadn’t been laid-up with bumps and bruises all over his body, you could have knocked Bosco over with a feather


    39. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together


    40. The furry, tan-coloured fedora, with the green feather in the band, was just icing on the cake to a casual spectator

    41. His feather tickled my nose


    42. I saw the rabbit blood on the trail and this feather


    43. Cal reached into his vest and produced a small gray feather


    44. “So, what does that mean?” said Steve, still trying to save what little remained of his feather hat


    45. It really was quite a feather in her cap


    46. B-boys of a feather flock together


    47. Well yes, it was a feather in my cap


    48. “You’re a feather and you got your Titanic romantic moment, princess


    49. A feather from the mountain goose


    50. Sometimes I opened my jewel box to see if the soft small feather was still breathing








































    1. Her side of the headboard was picked over, the light stuff was gone, a picture of a home in the inner canals remained, a feathered set of hair rings was gone


    2. He then rolled over, covering his ears and eyes with the thick feathered comforter


    3. Amused, the Nord wasted no time in sharing the summary of his worries with the feathered companion


    4. Rain feathered down at first, then fell harder


    5. When using an eyebrow pencil to fill in sparse brows, use light and quick feathered motions


    6. Celebrations poured out on to the streets of Nordhel from the houses and inns within the city where people held grand parties in fancy costumes and gilded and feathered masks


    7. Devil was a six-foot-six-and-a-sixth-inch-tall, red-eyed, white feathered, razor-clawed and diamond beaked, demon possessed rooster, whose sole purpose in life was to torment me and the dogs


    8. Matter of fact, I grinned at the familiar fussing of feathered dancers prancing their yard with curious head tilts and random cock-a-doodle-doos


    9. his feathered cap over the doorpost as he passed


    10. too, kissed Toinette's hand, waved his feathered cap, and--whir! they

    11. At the same moment, deep beneath the turbulent waters of the pool, four spirits strained against their earthly bonds, causing wisps of multicoloured steam to rise from the surface where they were whipped away by the storm– feathered seed-heads on a summer breeze


    12. There was a honking and hooting, and a flapping and a hissing, and I was aware that Detective Inspector Grunt was close behind me, his webbed feet splatting in the mud as he waved his feathered arms over my head


    13. Reliving the moment when the arrow struck her breast, when she looked down with eagle eyes and saw the feathered end of the missive protruding from her body


    14. Giselle puffed out her feathered chest, and flexed her wings


    15. The woman was russet-skinned with a shock of white hair, feathered and


    16. A high, merlon-topped wall decorated along the base with sculpted stone feathered serpents surrounded the whole


    17. feathered birds themselves as they soared without purpose


    18. 1 Then I saw a dream, and watching there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads


    19. 8 On the fifth day I commanded the sea, that it should bring out fishes, and feathered birds of many varieties, and all animals creeping over the Earth, going out over the Earth on four legs, and soaring in the air, male sex and female, and every soul breathing the spirit of life


    20. They wear long masquerade costumes; Victoria in a midnight-blue, mermaid styled dress and Megan in a revealing electric-blue, mini dress with a matching feathered mask

    21. 8 On the fifth day I commanded the sea that it should bring out fishes and feathered birds of many varieties and all animals creeping over the Earth going out over the Earth on four legs and soaring in the air male sex and female and every soul breathing the spirit of life


    22. feathered spear to announce the start of a war


    23. 1 Then I saw a dream and watching there came up from the sea an eagle which had twelve feathered wings and three heads


    24. With a movement as swift and elegant as a summer waterfall, the bird snatched up the cane that glowed a richer black against the feathered whiteness


    25. A black feathered spirit


    26. She knew that any further movement would run the risk of leaving a crimson trail of blood which would have them homing in on her in seconds, but then she was in no state to move anywhere with the feathered bolt still jutted from her chest


    27. If your vehicle is hard to steer when first started or while trying to parallel park in downtown New York with honking horns, yelling and the occasional feathered finger you have what we call Hard Steering


    28. I recognized the Chief by a feathered headdress that extended the length of his body to the ground


    29. It wore a feathered crown and bone necklace


    30. The Scribe of Life speaks in a mournful tone as he scratches with a feathered pen the tradegy of a pitiful creature

    31. A heap of arrows lay at his feet, feathered ends towards him, as he rested on one knee


    32. A beat of wings caused him to look, just as a feathered shadow shot down out of the sky


    33. One who wore a feathered head-dress had a set of pipes which he set to his lips, and even as the Tecuhltli started to shout a warning, the pipes began to skirl


    34. Tascela came forward, wiping her sword on her naked thigh, and holding in her other hand an object she had taken from the body of the feathered leader of the Xotalancas


    35. "Knaves!" screamed Rinaldo, dashing off his feathered cap, his wild eyes glaring


    36. At last it was stolen, and in the hands of a feathered shaman of the barbarians it defeated all my mighty sorcery


    37. He could no longer see them in this broken country, but he was certain that they still followed him, guided unerringly by their feathered allies


    38. By the time the baby budgie is eleven days old, he can maintain his own body temperature better, and you can gradually start reducing the heat in the brooder; it should be roughly ninety degrees Fahrenheit by the time the bird is fully feathered


    39. A fidgety stink bird sitting on a palmetto frond next to his stilled head was snapped up, chomped and gulped down; a feathered hors d‘oeuvre


    40. It spread great black wings, the feathered tips

    41. Pilots are required to test their abilities with one engine feathered when they qualify for multi-engine flying, but even in these cases they keep the engine on idle in the event that they cannot cope with the tremendous change in attitude


    42. smoky ghosts across the blanket of the tent, above their feathered heads and


    43. burned at the stake and/or tarred and feathered


    44. As he hesitated to admire the surroundings, a small and unnoticeable action of which he was fond, Feltus noticed the unmistakable form of the Ashburns, the elegantly attired Lady Jane whose hunter green morning dress and feathered hat seemed appropriate for the weather and demeanour of the hotel and who gracefully pushed her wheelchair-confined husband, exiting the dining room after their apparently early breakfast to which they were accustomed


    45. As he admired the exquisite scene before him, feeling whole and invigorated, Feltus noticed Lady Jane, dressed in a formal gown with a high, laced collar and feathered hat, enter the lobby from the south wing, her attention focused straight ahead though she seemed to be in quite a hurry, as if she did not want her presence to be publicized


    46. Dressed in all his majesty he was a breathtaking figure, his colourful quetzal feathered outfit adding to his majesty, the whole valley seemed to hold its breath


    47. Then mother put me in the care of our manager, Xsuno, to learn how to cast a spear with the use of the atlatl, which was a length of wood with a spike on the end on which you placed the spear to make your arm longer thereby casting the feathered shaft further, I was impressed by how far I could hurl the spear with the help of this simple device, but try as hard as he could, Xsuno had no success in improving my accuracy and I resigned myself to the fact that I would remain a bowman not a spear thrower, a fact which my mother acknowledged by smacking me on the side of the head and telling me to stop fooling around and concentrate, this was the first time Mother had ever slapped me and the shock of this first taste of discipline concentrated my efforts to win back her praise, after long weeks of scolding and practice, watching in awe the skill displayed by Xsuno, I achieved a modicum of skill with the spear but I was never comfortable with the weapon always preferring my bow


    48. ” he repeated he seemed to be very pleased to have learnt my name, the only word in the real language that he knew, I pointed in a circle and putting my hands at the side of my head made the sign for sleep he shook his head from side to side and again I was baffled, seeing this he went to the two corpses and made the signs for digging, ah! Hide the bodies of course, if they were discovered we would not get a quarter of the way to Tollan, he was very calm, so I left the thinking to him, my head was going around and around in a daze, I still couldn’t believe that I had survived capture, so I followed and did as he wanted, we dug a deep grave in the sandy bottom of the gully deep enough to stop any animals uncovering our secret until we were long gone on our journey, he rolled the first body in and began to push the second warrior into the hole, I was horrified and rushed to stop him, the headdresses alone, even without their weapons were worth a fortune, I was not about to bury such trophies so I jumped into the hole and stripped what I thought I could comfortably carry, I then stripped the second body, the spoils made quite a nice pile, two Quetzal feathered headdresses, two Jaguar skin cloaks, one obsidian knife and two swords tipped along the edges with obsidian and inlaid with lapis lazuli, sandals and leggings of fine deer skin, a spear, two bows with nine arrows in each finely decorated quiver, the bearded one looked at me and slowly shook his head from side to side, then went back to the task of burying the Mixteca, after putting the second warrior in the hole he continued filling in the grave, I laid one of the cloaks out and began to bundle up the treasures, I offered one of the swords to the hairy one but instead he chose a small obsidian knife and put it in the cord he wore around his waist, I completed the bundle and with no small effort hoisted it onto my back, I then helped to wipe away any signs of what had happened here, we spent the rest of the day under a heap of brush further down the gully, the hairy one went to sleep as soon as he lay down, I was far too excited to sleep, I had to know more about my bearded companion, awed by his fighting skills, but impressed more by his quiet demeanour and air of confidence, what wonderful good fortune, finding this white warrior was indeed the work of the gods, I was wondering what the people would think of my new friend when I got back to Tollan, with that thought I fell into a deep and satisfying sleep suddenly I came instantly awake, the hairy one had a hand over my mouth, voices came down the gully, I listened, then relaxed, this was not a search party, they were discussing the ball game they had just come from and were making their way home, as the enemy moved on the voices faded away, the hairy one took his hand from my mouth and I put my finger to my mouth, he understood and relaxed, it was quite late in the afternoon and we only had a short time to wait before continuing our journey to the west and home, the bundle on my back got heavier and heavier with each step and we still had two hard nights travel before we were on Toltec land


    49. The feathered creatures squawked as several of their company thudded against the side and spiralled, unconsciously, to their deaths


    50. Said it was the feathered serpent, the











































    1. This particular night, they seemed to have swallowed the Earth, their shimmering image reflected from a thin film of water left by the final feathering nudges of waves


    2. Breeding closely related parents can concentrate defects (poor feathering, deformities, and poor personalities) in a line and reduce the reproductive success of the parents


    3. It was cash that his country desperately needed, and for any man to make a priority of feathering his own nest when the people he led were in such dire straights was something that Robin could not understand or forgive


    4. The coterie of Ministers, who had so skilfully been feathering their own nests for so long, was now clearly rattled by the turn of events


    5. She pumped her wings until the speed was too great and then she folded them in, feathering just enough to guide her plunge


    6. The birds can have deep red, rich brown, startling white, or shiny and black feathering


    7. The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and, rearing high a proud feathering tail, added his quota by letting fall on the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds


    8. On the morning of his fourth day trapped beneath whatever is left of the Hotel of Bees, Werner is listening to the repaired transceiver, feathering the tuning knob back and forth, when a girl’s voice says directly into his good ear: At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent blow


    9. It is unknown if he or anyone else specified which engine needed feathering


    10. On the control panel, there were four feathering buttons, one for each engine, covered by a plastic shield

    11. As the men behind the cockpit fled toward the comparative safety of the waist and rear of the plane, one man, almost certainly the engineer who had hit the wrong feathering button, apparently stayed in front


    12. In a few months, a few years, they could travel anywhere, for the speed of their rocket was the speed of a god, and now for the ten-thousandth time one of the rockets of the far-circling hunt was feathering down toward an alien world


    13. But these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons


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    2. He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall


    3. He will cover me with His feathers, and under His wings i


    4. The heavens split wide open and I fell into a void, a pit of dense, black, smothering raven feathers


    5. The air hangs with salt, staining feathers and


    6. and white feathers blow softly above a black-banded hat


    7. my saw edged feathers


    8. with the feathers from the old woman’s plucking of her geese,


    9. "Quick thinking," Desa said, "I don't think I would have remembered how their tail feathers can burn in a panic situation like that


    10. wrapped in feathers that spin up into bright skies

    11. It seems to like having its feathers caressed, dipping its head against my hand … it’s obvious pleasure makes me smile


    12. This bird is about the size of a hawk I once saw at a demonstration of falconry, its feathers glisten in the sunlight, flashing green one moment and blue the next


    13. The feathers round its eyes are beautifully marked with delicate black stripes


    14. As if responding to his loving touch, the magnificent red flower head threw up new feathers, filling out and flaming into glorious bloom at just the right moment


    15. I was so startled I jumped up and down, waving my arms, laughing and shouting, spitting fluff and feathers from my mouth but more to scare my demons than because I found it funny


    16. the magnificent red flower head threw up new feathers, filling out


    17. A flare of the tail feathers and a challenge and within the blink of an eye Mya was on the beam not five feet from the large bird


    18. Red puffed up his feathers; and what of your quarry?


    19. The sun glinted beautifully on the feathers of its wings and Chrissie felt a longing to be able to touch the little creature … to stroke the feathers


    20. White Feathers had not yet joined them for the morning's coffee and chat; Harry was rousing the twins and helping them dress for the day

    21. The feathers soft to her touch, she stroked the little creature remembering how it had looked darting about in the air, hearing again the joyful song it had sung to her


    22. A beam of sunlight broke through the cloud, lighting the colours on the feathers for a brief moment before disappearing again


    23. White Feathers strolled in to take his accustomed seat at the table in the great room


    24. White Feathers, who had followed the ladies' tete a tete without interruption, rose and excused himself with his compliments to each for their hospitality and attractive company, then he was out the door


    25. George and White Feathers were in conversation at the open door


    26. White Feathers smiled at this


    27. Then he looked away from her to George and White Feathers still discussing something of import in the doorway of the Mercantile


    28. White Feathers came round the corner from the front door, reached into the kitchen and handed an envelope to Belle


    29. White Feathers never rushed to judgement about anything


    30. White Feathers already knew because he had ridden with the young Bill Cody years before in 'Johnston's Army' through Utah

    31. Keeping still and quartering the landscape with her ears, she pinpointed it, even more thrilled when she spotted a flash of bright feathers in a bush a few yards from where she was standing


    32. This left White Feathers to his own devices at the store and in the house


    33. “This is Iced Tea,” answered White Feathers simply, “May I get you some?” he offered in a humble voice of service


    34. “Which?” White Feathers intentionally vague, “The cabinet?” he paused, “Or the ice?” still keeping his lack of expression innocently


    35. ” White Feathers finally grinned wide in his victory


    36. White Feathers turned his hand to cooking, encouraged by Mandy to turn simple dishes into feasts


    37. For eleven of those years, White Feathers had spent quite a bit of time up at James Connor's livery stable when other family matters weren't pressing


    38. This all happened a year and a bit before the twins were born to George and Belle, and White Feathers at once began helping the new father care for his son while James also kept up his livery stable business


    39. Under White Feathers care the lad had been brought up and taught nearly identically to the upbringing Harry and his sisters received from George and Belle


    40. White Feathers and James were anxious that 'their' boy have some strong feminine influence and neither of them could imagine a better influence than Belle

    41. When Harry had begun to be highly proficient with the staff, White Feathers brought young Jameson to him for training in the techniques and purposes behind such an education


    42. And he was of course delighted whenever Titania followed White Feathers up to the stables to visit or care for the horses


    43. So after several months of her continued interest, White Feathers made a gift of a saddle to her, just her size with room to grow


    44. When White Feathers took up cooking as a hobby for himself, he encouraged Jameson to also experiment with the activity


    45. “Mother told Father, and Father told White Feathers, and I think he was invited along so he wouldn't feel like we were trying to avoid his cooking or anything


    46. Belle said, “White Feathers informed me he will not be joining us this evening,” and she looked to George suspiciously


    47. The entire wait staff led by Mandy and White Feathers processed from the kitchens bearing trays and singing


    48. Livingson, and Great-uncle White Feathers


    49. White Feathers gave him a hearty pat on the back and returned to the kitchens


    50. He stood there gaping, ready to ask the whereabouts of his things, when White Feathers, who was sitting behind him unnoticed, cleared his throat














































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    Synonyms for "feather"

    feather feathering plumage plume fledge square quill stylus pen

    "feather" definitions

    the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds


    turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls


    join tongue and groove, in carpentry


    cover or fit with feathers


    turn the paddle; in canoeing


    turn the oar, while rowing


    grow feathers