" Truly thou hast answered right: Now may heaven's attractive grace Towards the source of thy delight Speed along thy quickening pace! "Thank thee for thy generous care: Heaven, that did the wish inspire, Through thy instrumental prayer, Plumes the wings of my desire.

The brilliant kingfisher, resplendent in crimson and emerald, sat on the withered branch of a prostrate mango-tree close by, pluming his feathers and doubtless meditating on the vanity of life.

Where the son of fire in his eastern cloud, while the morning plumes her golden breast, Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night, crying: Empire is no more!

You will see your hero in his velvet cloak and plumed hat, with the splendor of scenery and the intoxication of the music.

They were furnished with splendid armour and plumed helmets, to distinguish them above the rest.

[Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880.

So like a shatter'd column lay the King; Not like that Arthur who, with lance in rest, From spur to plume a star of tournament, Shot thro' the lists at Camelot, and charged Before the eyes of ladies and of kings.

Thirty years after I had assumed my nom-de-plume a gray-haired stranger called at my house one day and asked to see me.

It was impossible not to plume oneself a little on the whole, but the feeling was a superficial one, with deeper and uneasier feelings underneath.

My heart says it is better as it is; I joy me that you flung into the sea That purple plume my loving, longing gaze Has often followed in the tournament.

not even yet have we plumed his vanity.

Indeed she steales and robs each part o'th world With borrowed beauties to enflame thine eye: The Sea, to fetch her Pearle, is div'd into; The Diomond rocks are cut to make her shine; To plume her pryde the Birds do naked sing: When my Enanthe, in a homely gowne Anto.

A numerous faction, with pretended frights, In Sanhedrims to plume the regal rights; 920 The true successor from the court removed; The plot, by hireling witnesses, improved.

It is a field in which plumed sachems, farmers, legislators, statesmen, speculators, professional and scientific men, and missionaries of the gospel, figure in their respective capacities.

And you will find, if you look back into our records, that our revered fathers in geology plumed themselves a good deal upon the practical sense and wisdom of this proceeding.

Stepping into another section, you were in Assyria, with the alabaster lions and plumed genii of the men of Nineveh and Babylon.

At length, the prize is mineThe haughty maid, That bears the fate of empires in her air, Henceforth shall live for me; for me alone Shall plume her charms, and, with attentive watch, Steal from Abdalla's eye the sign to smile.

The musicians, all barefoot, were in regular uniformgold braided jackets and plumed hatslooking for all the world like Malay chiefs who beautify their nakedness with castoff coats and three-cornered hats the missionaries give them.