Which preposition to use with feathers

in Occurrences 226%

The first thing the young married woman does is to wear a very long velvet dress with feathers in her hair.

of Occurrences 183%

I next produced some rare insects, and feathers of singular birds: but persons were found who had either seen, or read, or heard of similar insects and birds in Hoo-Choo, or Paraguay, or Prince of Wales's Island.

on Occurrences 101%

She wrapped a silk turban around his head and then placed a high red and black hat with bright colored feathers on his head.

from Occurrences 52%

Straight flew the arrow, and so true that it smote a gray goose feather from off Gilbert's shaft, which fell fluttering through the sunlit air as the stranger's arrow lodged close beside his of the Red Cap, and in the very center.

with Occurrences 36%

Seen from above, in a general view, feathered with Hemlock Spruce, and fringed with sedge, they seem to me the most singularly beautiful and interestingly located lake-cluster I have ever yet discovered.

for Occurrences 23%

Take to thy bosom thy banner, a fair bird fit for the nest, Feathered for flight into sunrise or sunset, for eastward or west, Fledged for the flight everlasting, but held yet warm to thy breast.

to Occurrences 21%

Harry had been accustomed to seeing Father Holt in more dresses than one; it not being safe, or worth the danger, for Popish priests to wear their proper dress; so he was in no wise astonished that the priest should now appear before him in a riding-dress, with large buff leather boots, and a feather to his hat, plain, but such as gentlemen wore.

at Occurrences 17%

It was this hat feather, a cock's feather at that and worn without sense of humor, to which Miss Slayback was fond of attributing the consequences of that heliotrope dusk.

like Occurrences 13%

Huh!" For her own self Mandy would have been thoroughly scared by this attack; in Johnnie's defence she rustled her feathers like an old hen whose one chick has been menaced.

as Occurrences 11%

Some birds' feathers are much prettier than others: the goose has not such pretty feathers as the swan, nor the swan as the peacock; but we must not think ill of the goose for this, for its flesh is better to eat than either the peacock or swan.

about Occurrences 7%

There is no fuss and feathers about it.

into Occurrences 7%

" She replied, "An old man shall never marry me," and cast the feather into the fire.

out Occurrences 7%

Well, I'm glad to be back in the show, 'cause there is more going on than there was in the hospital, where I put in a week while the doctors were pulling the cactus pin feathers out of pa that grew out on him in Indian Territory.

than Occurrences 6%

Now, fine feathersan' ther ain't a finer feather than this in San Lorenzy countydon't make fine birds.

under Occurrences 6%

A man, with a large tin can of smoking pitch, a brush of the kind used in applying the same, and a pillow of feathers under his arm, followed immediately behind the prisoner, vociferating loudly.

before Occurrences 5%

"If that old rascal lived in the country we come from," said certain Américains, "he'd have been tarred and feathered before now, wouldn't he, Sanders?" "Well, now he just would."

off Occurrences 5%

Take the best magazines even if you have to leave feathers off your hat and desserts off your table.

over Occurrences 4%

It is pitiful to see wee frost-pinched sparrows on cold mornings in the mountain groves shaking the snow from their feathers, and hopping about as if anxious to be cheery, then hastening back to their hidings out of the wind, puffing out their breast-feathers over their toes, and subsiding among the leaves, cold and breakfastless, while the snow continues to fall, and there is no sign of clearing.

by Occurrences 3%

Other seeds are disseminated by animals; of these some attach themselves to their hair or feathers by a gluten, as misleto; others by hooks, as cleavers, burdock, hounds-tongue; and others are swallowed whole for the sake of the fruit, and voided uninjured, as the hawthorn, juniper, and some grasses.

through Occurrences 3%

Hold, hold, the man begins to fear and know himself, He shall for this time only be seal'd up With a Feather through his nose, that he may only see Heaven, and think whither he's going, Nay beyond-Sea Sir, we will proclaim you, you would be King Thou

across Occurrences 3%

The inlet and outlet valves of the air pump consist of brass plates 1/2 inch with strong feathers across them, and in each plate there are six grated perforations covered by india rubber discs 7 inches in diameter.

around Occurrences 3%

In this way they must capture a large amount of game, judging by the quantity of feathers around some of the waterholes.

among Occurrences 3%

" This justice of the peace, who bade the by-standers unloose the murderer, mentioned above, has plenty of birds of his own feather among the law officers of Louisiana.

above Occurrences 3%

It has a grating, discordant cry, which it utters at intervals as it sits pluming its black feathers above the pool.

after Occurrences 3%

" While Prettywing and Goldeye were talking in this strain, the wild geese had been standing on the strand, pluming their feathers after the flight.

Which preposition to use with  feathers