22 Metaphors for feather

Still, a broken feather is no good to anybody, and, as I have told you any number of times, I cannot have trash littering up my kitchen.

This feather that we have for our lesson is the feather of a goose; it is not very pretty, but if we examine it well we shall find it is very curious, and all the men in the world could not make one like it.

The young birds of the season are then swelling their little throats in trying to warble a few notes; and as their feathers are a mixture of those worn by their father and mother, such birds and their songs will both, most likely, confuse you.

These feathers are emblems of peace in our land, and have been carried from town to town, to witness it.

Ever after a pig and red feathers were offerings to the idol of Oro by the Arioi.

"But a feather is no use to anybody, King, for, as you see, it is a quite ordinary feather?" "Come, come!"

His eyes are mirrors, and each single feather is a sharp sword.

The thigh feathers are very downy, but are not long.

So feather is Saxon; but as soon as it changes into a plume for the knight, it turns Norman,and Latin when it is cut into a pen for the clerk.

What big wingsand the breast feathers are like little bronze flames!

This was not a war bonnet, but a plume made of small feathers, the feathers of thunder birds, for the thunder bird was his father's medicine.

The feathers of the thighs and tarsi are light hair-brown, mottled with darker lines.

(The Medium called "White-feather" he, Mr. Hazard objecting that White-feather was a woman.)

Feathers are the plumage, when you take them all together.

feathers is my weakness.

Very little moss was used for mattresses, chicken feathers and goose feathers were the principal constituents during his boyhood.

As the feathers of this bed are harsh stems covered with leafage, the process of bed-making must be systematic, the stems thoroughly covered, and the surface smooth and elastic.

He is not plucked, for his feathers are his beauty, and more than his beauty, they are his discretion, his countenance, his all.

The Zhar-Ptitza himself had every reason to get comfort out of this axiom, for his plumage was everywhere the most brilliant purple, except that his neck feathers were the color of new gold, and his tail was blue with somewhat longer red feathers intermingled.

As there was no tree for them to light on, they rushed down on the playground, where the heather stood so high that only their beautifully turned tail-feathers and their thick bills were visibleand they began to sing: "Orr, orr, orr.

His coarse flowing hair was gathered up into a scalp-lock, and the eagle feather which he wore in it was his only headgear.

The primary and secondary feathers are wood-brown, margined inwards with white.

22 Metaphors for  feather