1176 examples of plume in sentences

or more), with the beautiful fur coat and ruff, the plume tail turned over on his back and almost meeting his neck-ruff, the strong, straight legs and neat, catlike feet, gives an impression of symmetry, power, and alertness.

Before such marvels, what are we To plume ourselves in foolish pride?

A long court enclosed in pale-green trellis-work, where pigeons plume themselves about a great tank and the dripping tiles glitter with refracted sunlight, leads to the fresh gloom of a cypress garden, or under jasmine tunnels bordered with running water; and these again open on arcaded apartments faced with tiles and stucco-work, where, in a languid twilight, the hours drift by to the ceaseless music of the fountains.

But the earl's manner gradually reassured him, and in a little time he began to plume himself in harmless trembling vanity upon sitting in the same room with a nobleman and a great lawyer.

Fly where groves of citron bloom, And orange orchards shed perfume, And birds of ev'ry varied plume With music charm thee: Fly, little warbler, quickly fly, Far, far away to southern sky, Where nought can harm thee.

Then upward look, with firm resolve, Thy spirit's precious plume to rise; What though thine earthly house dissolve; Thou hast a mansion in the skies.

No mare, no more, o'er the dark blue sea, Will the gallant vessel bound, Fearless and proud as the warrior's plume At the trumpet's startling sound; No more will her banner assert its claim To empire on the foam, And the sailors cheer as the thunder rolls From the guns of their wave-girt home!

Au bruit de la bombe, et au fracas de la maison qui semblait tomber, la plume échappa des mains du secrétaire.

DESSINER, reproduire, avec le crayon ou la plume, la forme des objets.

PLUME, f., morceau de métal dont on se sert pour écrire.

Red plume returns.

Red plume returns.

Red plume returns.

Red Plume of the Royal Northwest mounted.

The purple plume.

Elisabeth Achelis (A); 10Apr58; R213177. ACHESON, FRANK O. V. Plume of the Arawas.

Red plume returns.

The white plume of Navarre.

Red Plume of the Royal Northwest mounted.

Plume rouge; a novel of the pathfinders.

Then she told her parents she was going to meet her little lover, the chieftain of the green plume, who was waiting for her at the Spirit Grove.

" "What sort of a woman?" "A very gallus French siren with a big white hat and a black plume as long as the tail of me horse.

I hope our own countrymen, who plume themselves on going ahead in utilitarian enterprises, will show the world what they can do in this.

Rosamond was inventing a feather for her hat out of the best of an old black-cock plume, and some bits of beautiful downy white ones with smooth tips, that she brought forth out of a box.

" Rosamond was so busy fastening in the plume, and giving it the right set-up, that she talked a little delirium of nonsense.

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