There was a tall man wearing in his hair a single great feather, whom I took to be the chief.

He had preened his feathers and done her bidding.

He smiled grimly when I said this, and took from his pocket a crumpled feather.

" "Well, I think that, as likely as not, it was its own fault that it lost its feathers," said Sagastao, and then he added as he poked the rank bird over with a stick: "I would not be surprised to hear that Nanahboozhoo had something to do with it.

'He could not rest,' he said, 'till he had pulled out all his borrowed peacock's feathers.

They gave him the woman, but before her departure her brother gave her a feather and said to her, "When anyone shall try to do anything to you against your will, cast this feather on the hearth and we will come to you.

] How beautiful he is, with drooping neck and softly ruffled throat-feathers!

You don't mean to say you have shown the white feather?" Pen laughed bitterly at the word feather, and repeated it.

In Caesar's case at the very time after the covenant had been made an eagle settled upon his tent and killed two crows that attacked it and tried to pluck out its feathers,a sign which granted him victory over his two rivals.

[* Soare faulcon, a young falcon; a hawk that has not shed its first feathers, which are sorrel.]

So saying, Zál went up to a high place, and burnt the feather in a censer, and in a short time the Símúrgh stood before him.

Père Jerome laid his hat upon a chest of drawers, sat down opposite her, and said, as he wiped his kindly face: "Well, Madame Carraze?" Gentle as the tone was, she started, ceased fanning, lowered the fan to her knee, and commenced smoothing its feathers.

He hissed with rage, flew straight at Morten Goosey-Gander and tore out a few feathers.

When he came back to the fire, which had burnt low, he pulled open his parki and drew out an ivory wand, and a long eagle's feather with a fluffy white tuft of some sort at the end.

His cap was new, too, and Helma had stuck two new little brown feathers in it as in the old one; so he still had a look of flying.

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

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.

[Footnote 21: This version is probably a mixture of the versions of Perrault and Grimm but Mother Holle shaking her feathers is worth bringing in.]

While dancing he picked the white feathers and scattered them on the heads of the others.

He sets out his feathers like an owl, to swell and seem bigger than he is.

He blew up his feathers, cocked his head, raised and lowered his body, until the breast-feathers rattled against the branch.

For, as my arms I lifted to the skies, I saw black feathers from my fingers rise; I strove to fling my garment to the ground; My garment turned to plumes, and girt me round: 70 My hands to beat my naked bosom try; Nor naked bosom now nor hands had I. Lightly I tripped, nor weary as before Sunk in the sand, but skimmed along the shore;

I wouldn't save a feather for that 'ere old rascal, Harry.

When little birds, such as sparrows and robins, come out of the eggs, have they got feathers?

He put his fingers through the bars, and stroked the bird's soft feathers.