The ugly jackdaw, collecting all the
fine feathers which had fallen from the other birds, attached them to his own body and appeared at the examination, looking very gay.
Fables
He doesn't seem to fancy me in
fine feathers. He says I ought to be minding the pigs at home, and I suppose I ought.
Alexanders Bridge
As everybody knows,
fine feathers make fine birds; a peasant girl but very moderately prepossessing to the casual observer in her simple condition and attire, will bloom as an amazing beauty if clothed as a woman of fashion with the aids that Art can render; while the beauty of the midnight crush would often cut but a sorry figure if placed inside the field-woman's wrapper upon a monotonous acreage of turnips on a dull day.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
Dowley was in
fine feather, and I early got him started, and then adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him hum.
Connecticut Yankee
I knew that "Monsieur le Comte" would take no notice of me when we met at dinner, as also that the General would not dream of introducing us, nor of recommending me to the "Comte." However, the latter had lived awhile in Russia, and knew that the person referred to as an "uchitel" is never looked upon as a bird of
fine feather. Of course, strictly speaking, he knew me; but I was an uninvited guest at the luncheon--the General had forgotten to arrange otherwise, or I should have been dispatched to dine at the table d'hote.
Gambler
The crafty homesteader may choose to raise geese for their down feathers; the layer of
fine feathers underneath the goose's large exterior plume.
WHY GEESE ARE GREAT HOMESTEAD
The
fine feathers of their proposed "country and heritage park" hide a rotten core for the whole of Monklands.
Residents hit out at Europark plans
There was a special request this time around, with the ladies complying-that they all wear fascinators, perched on their coiffures, whether they be of
fine feathers or ruffled tulle.
Born on a Christmas Eve, Teresin Mendezona embodies Yuletide cheer
Fine feathers add just the right touch of glamour for race-goers at Ladies Day at York racecourse yesterday Alan Crowhurst
Man Tasered aboard flight at Gatwick
Amid the frivolity and demimonde ethos, a soulful little poem by Rumi was printed in her show's booklet -- clues to the many puffy tufts of
fine feathers glued atop the canvases: "My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Turkish artists add color to NY March art scene
Color evolution among grackles and their kin is not about males showing off their
fine feathers. It's more about females switching their looks, a new analysis indicates.
Drab now, female birds had more colorful evolution: male changes did not drive differences in avian plumage
Owing to the influence of fashion and women's natural liking for a variation of '
fine feathers',' there are few women who can claim that they always wear all their clothes until they are worn out.
Men wear their clothes for longer; LETTER FROM THE PAST
Agnes Joyce turned the key for the final time on her clothing shop,
Fine Feathers, on Narrow West Street in Drogheda, Co Louth.
Fergie's Irish cousin shuts clothes shop after 35years; FINAL WHISTLE FOR AGNES
It was also a chance to rub shoulders and drink cocktails with industry insiders from the fashion world, many of whom showed up in
fine feathers on the heels of Toronto's Fashion Week.
Big and bold ways to support the ROM: a sensational dress stitches together a fashion and philanthropic community
The dam is home to 26 pairs of breeding grebes, a species once hunted to garner their
fine feathers and plumage.
GREBEST SHOW ON WATER; Dancing birds thrive in new home