I had reason to think that he might not need them again, seeing that a thirty-inch shaft had
feathered in his back."
The White Company
Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty
feather beds.
Andersens Fairy Tales
There is food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole country.
So prodigious was the number of the birds that the scattering fire of the guns, with the hurling of missiles and the cries of the boys, had no other effect than to break off small flocks from the immense masses that continued to dart along the valley, as if the whole of the feathered tribe were pouring through that one pass.
Pioneers
'
Feather!
Feather!' the Sheep cried again, taking more needles.
Through the Looking Glass
Iwanich thanked the bird, and placing the
feather beside the scale he drove the horses home.
Yellow Fairy Book
Among the recruits who had enlisted he distributed
feathers and ostrich plumes.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
"Get off your foot, or I'll throw the leg of Moses at you," was the next command from the tiny
feathered thing.
Michael Brother of Jerry
But suddenly the bunch of
feathers stopped whirling, and then, to her amazement, the girl saw Billina crouching upon the prostrate form of a speckled rooster.
Ozma of Oz
At that moment the man with the
feathers ceased to gesticulate, and, with his hands placed upon his knees, was following, half-bent, the effort of six workmen to raise a block of hewn stone to the top of a piece of timber destined to support that stone, so that the cord of the crane might be passed under it.
Ten Years Later
Jemima Puddle-duck was rather surprised to find such a vast quantity of
feathers. But it was very comfortable; and she made a nest without any trouble at all.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the
feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.' The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.
Fairy Tales
The maids wanted to dress the children in fine costumes of woven
feathers, such as all the foxes wore; but neither of them consented to that.
The Road to Oz
Hairless dogs have imperfect teeth; long-haired and coarse-haired animals are apt to have, as is asserted, long or many horns; pigeons with
feathered feet have skin between their outer toes; pigeons with short beaks have small feet, and those with long beaks large feet.
The Origin of Species
He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his
feathers.
Adventures Of Pinocchio