How To Use Feathered In A Sentence
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A rich cashmere throw, a pair of princess-worthy slippers, and some delish candles will keep her nest well feathered.
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He describes the recent revelation that many small meat-eating dinosaurs were feathered.
The Times Literary Supplement
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the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch
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After finishing the heap of homework I had, I let myself fall into bed, dozing off the moment my head hit the soft feathered pillow.
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I love catching a glimpse of the unexpected flower growing through cracks in a sidewalk, or the furry and feathered critters dodging us humans in their quest for food and shelter.
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Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
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the unfeathered legs of an Orpington
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In cultural dances, performers may put on feathered hats and skirts made of sisal strands.
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My hair was feathered, usually with a slightly wonky fringe cut by my mum to save money.
The Sun
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They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
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Not literally, of course, but with a poor ball down the legside that his nemesis feathered to the keeper.
The Sun
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All nestboxes also need an easy way to be cleaned and sanitized after each feathered family has taken flight, most especially before another family takes up residency.
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We feathered the propeller and discussed our options.
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
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They were not the feathered wings of a bird or the leathery ones of a bat, but something in-between, sharing the features of both.
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Birds - the feathered descendants of the dinosaurs - fascinate her.
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Baboons barked an alarm and thereafter bulbuls, warblers, shrikes, robins and other feathered choirs begun to sing.
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The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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our feathered friends
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After all, it's only chucking three feathered, tungsten-shafted mini-missiles into a board from a short distance.
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The story of our doomed feathered friend was one of the most read news items this week.
The Sun
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Structure is feathered at the edges by cantilevers which reinforce the pervading impression of weightlessness.
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However, these feathered theropods are clearly just one small group of dinosaurs, and if they were all transported to modern times, they are so similar we would put them all in the same small group.
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Skeleton of the breast-fin of Ceratodus (biserial feathered skeleton).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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Is an oxpecker a parasite or a helpful scavenger - your basic feathered cleaner wrasse?
The evolution of vampires
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A tiny new "feathered" ornithischian dinosaur from China, the Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid Tianyulong confuciusi.
"So lose some sleep and say you tried."
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But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather.
The Hills of Hingham
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Feathered friends also makes twice the product that tool wiggy makes.
Suggestions for Santa
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These vile, bejeweled, befeathered women, these loathsome, swinish men -- _these_ are the people who have money to spend.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
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The owner of a valuable parrot stolen by ram-raiders is appealing for help in tracing his feathered friend.
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Women have a choice of several feathered and sequined costumes, complete with chiffon trains and abundantly feathered headpieces, all coordinated according to the seven sections the band is presenting.
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of them has feathered wings, another a catlike appearance complete with a triangular nose and furry black tail, three have webbed fingers and gold, slitted eyes.
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My sense of humor, which I'm going to need to pull off an outfit made from a funky new green crushed velour shirt with a pink cowboy hat with a built-in tiara, now also sporting a feathery Mardi Gras mask and orange feathered boa.
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A hart pass.ppr. horned, membered and hurt in haunch with arrow or feathered ar.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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With his last exhibition being on Siberian cranes, feathered creatures equally move Ajay Singh.
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Using artificial insemination, they propagated offspring that would produce both feathered and featherless broilers that would grow to comparable size in the same length of time.
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In each pocket, there was a feathered dart no bigger than his finger.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The menu still refers, quaintly, to feathered and furred game, mostly brought down from the restaurant's own game estate in the high Pennines.
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Not feathered bird wings, but scaled, strong wings.
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Abruptly, the creature's wild silvery eyes snapped open, and a guttural screech echoed from its throat, as it spread is massive feathered wings and stood.
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It is mostly lost in a strange period of reading finickiness, back when I was obsessed with Dumas and wanted everyone to run around with swords and feathered hats.
Before bed mutterings
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Familiarizing yourself with your local birds – those that are easily seen in your backyard, neighborhood or nearby park – can help you learn about your regular feathered visitors.
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an unfeathered goose
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You can see feathered models of deinonychus, with a therizinosaurus in the background.
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A buzzard has strong, thick, feathered legs and walks with a dignified gait.
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Of creatures possessed of hearing, some have ears, whilst others have none, but merely have the passages for ears visible, as, for example, feathered animals or animals coated with horny tessellates.
The History of Animals
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They were not the feathered wings of a bird or the leathery ones of a bat, but something in-between, sharing the features of both.
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Don't fly till you wings are feathered.
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Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
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The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business
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Europe, that their business was considered as one of great honor, and that they were permitted to assume what may be called heraldic devices on their standards, to carry bright-feathered plumes, and to wear gold ornaments -- such decorations being only allowed to warriors who had, by their deeds in battle, been admitted into an institution which closely resembled that of knighthood; all others dressing in plain white cloths, woven from thread obtained from the aloe.
By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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the unfeathered brood
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‘Feathered Friends’ is the album's requisite slow track, a rousing, uplifting singsong that eclipses Rocket's previous attempts at balladry.
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In fact its feathered section is a hollow tube.
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There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian.
The Crossing
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The story of our doomed feathered friend was one of the most read news items this week.
The Sun
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The engine was shut down and the propeller feathered.
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[Greek: 'kouroi anarriptein ala pêdô,'] in their showy uniforms, push out from Ryker's; some bound upward past the oyster-beds of Fair Haven, away up among the salt-marsh meadows, where the Quinnipiac wanders under quaint old bridges among fair, green hills; some for the Light, shooting out into the broad waters of the open bay, their feathered oars flashing in the sunlight; some for
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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The four Neville Brothers first worked together backing Mardi Gras Indians for the 1976 album “The Wild Tchoupitoulas” and their set started with the Nevilles joined by current Tchoupitoulas in feathered suits, one carrying a giant sequined tomahawk.
Jazzfest: A Neville Family Homecoming - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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With an engine failure, the prop couldn't be feathered.
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Don't fly till you wings are feathered.
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So taking the bravest-feathered acetylene lamp into the phonologic laboratory, we consummated our radionic guest on the slab in the dark, and incorporated every energy to the mixing of a pretty solution, the weighing and measuring supervised by West with an almost light-headedness care.
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In view of the great scarcity of feathered game, and the number of deadly machine guns already on the market, the production of the last and deadliest automatic gun (by the Winchester Arms Company), _already in great demand_, is a crime against wild life, no less.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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On the neighboring oak tree goes a peg holding a feathered Robin Hood cap that each markswoman must don before drawing her dart.
Home Swell Home
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Leslie lightens her hair and has now had it cut into a short, feathered style.
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He meant to say domestic animals, such as furred and feathered game, not wild animals which abound in tropical regions, and with which they were not likely to have to do.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
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Hundreds of fine feathered budgerigars flocked to the city to help celebrate a major milestone in the York and District Budgerigar Society's history.
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She's just finished one of her fabulous BIG MAMA stories and this one involved a darling, feathered arctic allosaur named "Alfred.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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Properly speaking, therefore, the feathered choralist does not have a voice, but only a wind instrument; albeit a marvelous contrivance it is.
Our Bird Comrades
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Andre could pull off the frosted feathered hair, neon colored shirt audacious thing for one reason and one reason only: IT WAS THE EIGHTIES.
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even this beaked bird, with even more direct evidence of feathers, is ‘dated’ to 135 million years, so older than its ‘feathered dinosaur’ ancestor.
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I should like rather a LARGE Christmas tree, if it's convenient: not one of those "sprigs," five or six feet high, that you used to have three or four years ago, when the birdlings were not fairly feathered out; but a tree of some size.
The Birds' Christmas Carol
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The magneton is feathered to give the ice more time to thermalize its vibrational energy.
Quantum Hyperion
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He looked quite dashing in knee-high boots, maroon pants and vest, and a clean white shirt, with a feathered hat to top it all off.
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I'd like to see these communists tarred, feathered, roped in concertina, and dunped just south of the US international border.
An Important Revelation
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We can feel the pull of muscle and the beat of feathered wings of the snow goose as it makes its long migration.
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One place I've been and don't want to go back to: long permed hair and feathered bangs, which is the look I'm sporting in the passport that I got at age 17 the eighties, apparently, came late to the west coast, because this was in 1992.
Ferule & Fescue
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No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced, -- and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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And while these elderly gents may look faintly ridiculous when they troop out in their finery of tartan trews, Lincoln green tunics and feathered bonnets they are all serious people.
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This page covers the first dinosaurs that we would clearly recognize as birds: feathered creatures who flew.
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Of all our feathered friends pheasants offer the most gorgeous sight to behold, particularly the male ones.
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An elite group of warriors, the Dogs wore their feathered hats depicting their status as the bravest of the brave, men who pinned their sashes to the earth and stood their ground in battle, even to the death.
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His long black hair covered his white feathered cape, and her long black hair flowed over her white deerskin dress.
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It features fossils and models of the so-called feathered dinosaurs recently discovered in China.
CNN Transcript May 11, 2005
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(link) Gods-be-feathered is from the Chanur books.
Mrissa: fake swears
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Polyester leisure suits gave way to polyester tank tops, while feathered Farrah Fawcett hairstyles wilted in the unrelenting airlessness.
Editorial: A Clone Too Far | Obsessed With Film
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Caudipteryx has short forelimbs and a feathered manus and is likely to have been a secondarily flightless bird.
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Ken shut down the engine and feathered the propeller while Bob returned to his turret.
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Twigs and leaves, from overgrown bushes - half hung in the road - bashed and feathered against his clothes.
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I imagined myself in a flowing green gown, hiding mysteriously behind a feathered mask.
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Feduccia laments that "the major and most worrying problem of the feathered dinosaur hypothesis is that the integumental structures have been homologized with avian feathers on the basis of anatomically and paleontologically unsound and misleading information.
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The birds are scalded, de-feathered by machine and transferred to the eviscerating line.
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For example, a two-page spread puts side-by-side a frontal view and a large feathered serpent head in such a way that underscores a formal similarity.
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I bet she wanted to arrive at Westminster Cathedral in one of those horse-drawn hearses where the gee-gees have those black feathered head-dresses.
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The wide-girthed tree crowns our modest backyard, an earth-bound shelter for suburban fauna, scrappy squirrels, toothsome chipmunks and commonplace feathered friends.
Charlotte Safavi: Handling Death with Kid Gloves
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Turkey is easier, but anyone having a fancy for goose, duck, capon or our more unusual feathered friends shouldn't take any chances.
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The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures.
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White feathered wings buffeted him aside, the silver-white dragon looking down on him with a slightly distant expression.
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Their legs are strong, and feathered in many species; they have zygodactyl raptorial feet.
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“Bird Brainer”: Archie installs a birdbath near his bedroom window so he can hear their delightful singing – until a viewing of a vintage horror film casting his feathered friends as fiends leads to a nightmare most “fowl!”
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In a French supermarket he visited, chickens still retained their feathered heads.
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They feed on insects, seed and shoots, digging in the snow with well-feathered feet and burrowing for food and shelter.
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She pulled a brown - feathered sample from the box and shrugged.
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It was a painful operation, for his thatch was a stubborn mat of crisp waves and knotty tangles to his plumy tail and down to his feathered toes.
Greyfriars Bobby
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Perhaps it could have been the coy way that she covered herself with those feathered appendages I normally took for granted.
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Chiggers often are covered with dense, feathered hairs that give them a velvety appearance.
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The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone, taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper.
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Though his tail grew back, he spent the rest of his days cringing in a corner of the coop, quailing at any sudden movement, and completely immune to the attractions of his feathered harem.
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In this scene the seated woman is also richly dressed and is also wearing a handsome feathered hat.
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It includes an ornate woven cape, a decorated tunic, a feathered headdress, laced shoes and jewelry.
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I suppose the densely feathered, black and white head of the drake does slightly resemble a buffalo's head.
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Thorny plants are unpleasant to rub against and trimmings from spikey, prickly plants placed under bird-feeders help protect our feathered friends.
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Its feathered tail twitched as it pawed the grassy earth with a forehoof.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Lightly feathered dromaeosaurs might have relied on wings for help in climbing steep slopes and even entering trees, just as extant galliform birds do.
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Meticulously gluing them together piece by piece, Kaufman builds up feathered layers and leaflike clusters of paint.
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This year's statues will feature the cartoon dog lying atop his doghouse with his feathered friend, Woodstock, on his stomach.
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Some creature that looked like a feathered lizard, its coxcomb yellow and black, scuttled into view, and out again.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Additionally, a number of other fully-feathered extant birds can readily absorb and use incident radiant solar energy.
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Alabama's short-term feathered visitors left the state last week headed for wintering grounds in Florida.
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Once the propeller was feathered, the drag reduced, and we could maintain directional control, as well as increase altitude and airspeed.
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She rummaged through it and pulled out a thick leather bound book, a feathered quill and a small pot of ink.
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The fashion trends of the day included slinky summer dresses, wide feathered hats and boas, straw hats and suits of every shade and style - and that was just the men.
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The crew feathered for the last few yards of the race.
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a feathered hat
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Four wings were better than two for the earliest birds, which became airborne by spreading both their feathered arms and legs, a new study says.
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Once in the club, civil servants feathered their beds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark the grace with which he vaults nimbly into the driver's seat beside the bedizened trot in the feathered bonnet-his aunt, doubtless-and with an expert chuck on the reins sets the team in motion and bogs the whole contraption axeldeep in the gumbo.
Isabelle
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I watched the slate-feathered bird stalking a shallow eddy for maybe fifteen minutes before she flew upstream.
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But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.”
THE MOONLIT EARTH
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The feathered design of almond and chocolate frangipanes gives a flare to this seemingly simple dessert.
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In this video from CNN, CBC News reports on a feathered foe beleaguering a local postal worker in a Calgary, Canada neighborhood.
Hawk Attacks Postal Worker In Canada, Has To Wear Helmet (VIDEO)
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But Savage has barriers put between him and his destiny by Mayans with red-tipped fingers, the warriors led by a villain masked as Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent.
Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » July
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A small shiver of apprehension feathered her spine.
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If anything, their populations are growing - to the point where city hall wants Montrealers to be a little less friendly with their furred and feathered friends.
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Umber set a feathered pen and an inkwell on the desktop and pulled a stool out of the corner of the room.
End of Time
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And yet, the clouds feathered out at the edges into gray and then smokelike smudges.
Sufficient Grace
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The music Hot 8 performed that day hearkened back to the social aid and pleasure clubs, said Pete, where a well-dressed band led a parade down the street, forming the “first line,” while onlookers joined them to form the “second line” with strutting, jumping and high-stepping underneath their decorated parasols as they blew whistles and waved feathered fans.
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Then we were by the counter and through the glass I saw a feathered corpse, twisted to show its plumpness.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RODRIGUEZ: And some colleague in New York reminded me, you know, tarred and feathered is just a metaphor nowadays.
More Americans Giving Up On The American Dream
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Is it your sense that these feathered dinosaurs are more closely related, to say the crane or the Dodo bird?
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Joe is an avid bird watcher. He has always been fascinated by our fine feathered friends.
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Or is placing a feathered creature upon the shoulders considered an even bleaker omen than shooting one?
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It includes an ornate woven cape, a decorated tunic, a feathered headdress, laced shoes and jewelry.
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While large amounts of reflective glass may be aesthetically pleasing, it is more harmful to our feathered friends.
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While it could plausibly be either a linked story collection or a novel, it is neither fish nor fowl, but, rather, a lovingly befinned and befeathered chimera of both.
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Too, a tract devoid of any winged life other than dragonflies and mosquitoes this week might just be covered with the feathered gray darters come the first of September.
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Hesitantly, the blue-feathered bird emerged from under the bushes, dragging behind it a long, shimmering emerald tail.
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The afternoon's sky was clear but high cirrus feathered toward the north-west, a sign of heavy weather coming.
CORMORANT
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The chalkydri bobbed its feathered head and chittered in rapid, high-pitched tones, an aural hummingbird.
Etched in Bone
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
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Most wind machines have to be 'furled' (feathered) once the wind passes a rated wind speed and completely shutdown at a maximum wind speed.
The Engineer - News
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[UK Parliament, 1741-2] (1c) [...] among all manner of bovine, swinish and feathered cattle.
2010 July « Motivated Grammar
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After fierce fighting the Mahratta front line on the British left was broken by the 78th Highlanders, majestic giants in kilts and feathered bonnets.
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Fortunately, they were of the furred and feathered kind.
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The feathered reptile lowered its coxcomb as she crossed the ground, and slunk away, disappearing into a crack between two boulders.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Once fully retracted, the limbs can then be feathered and brought forwards during a recovery stroke.
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The most beautifully feathered of all game birds, the pheasant was originally brought here from China.
Food Watch
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Press reports described the $1 million party as a wild, indulgent free-for-all, studded with shiny, red Ferraris, feathered showgirls and an Egyptian theme.
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We secured the port engine and feathered its propeller before we lost all the pitch-change fluid from the pitch-control unit on the port propeller.
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He is depicted clothed in this painting, wearing a feathered bonnet, and again confronts the viewer directly.
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The others, even the ones who had never rowed before this day, feathered their oars like pros and smiled like kids in the candy store.
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A tiny feathered "thumb," the alula, improves flight control. The protruding shaft on the first wing feather makes a loud, rustling sound—adding acoustics to the visual display.
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Each back proof carries the Hawaiian Coat of Arms which includes two men in feathered cloaks and helmets flanking the shield.
Important Hawaii Proofs in Long Beach Auction : Coin Collecting News
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The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone, taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper.
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The property itself is very well treed providing a lovely haven for our feathered friends.
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Colors include coral, pink, red, salmon, white, yellow, and striped and feathered bicolors.
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I call my budgie Jeffrey My grandads name's the same I call him after grandad Who had a feathered brain.
A Spaniard In The Works
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Caudipteryx has short forelimbs and a feathered manus and is likely to have been a secondarily flightless bird.
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He firmly planted his feathered hat on his head and pulled his red jacket on before leaving his cabin to find Wesley.
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Go in search of feathered beasties in the deserts, mountains and oases of southern Morocco's kasbah country.
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These brightly painted feathered puppets represent spirits and figures from votive dances and are extensively collected.
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As Yeager reaches his pinnacle, seemingly within reach of a stratosphere denied him, the astronauts are treated to an iconic burlesque by Sally Rand, her giant white feathered wings teasingly obscuring her naked body.
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The thief was tarred and feathered
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Forget sighting a humble swallow—these days, the first sign of a British summer must surely be the inaugural glimpse of a bright, feathered fascinator perched precariously atop the mother of the bride.
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She can get treats for her feathered friends, such as suet cakes and also all of her gardening supplies like wall o water plant protectors!
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The baby Anzu bird that Lugalbanda feeds and decorates is spotted with a multitude of tiny flowers and you can make out every barb, calamus, and rachis on the bird's feathered body.
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Soon black smoke poured from its exhaust and the prop was feathered to try and save the engine, but it was too late.
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“The eagle,” said the expounder of dark sayings, “is the cognizance of our noble lord the Archduke — of his royal Grace, I would say — and the eagle flies the highest and nearest to the sun of all the feathered creation.”
The Talisman
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Apparently Pop is sold on growing his hair out from the flattop we're all used to, into some kind of feathered, curling-in-the-back thing.
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If I had only been content to remain among the mountains, where, even though the climbing was difficult, there were brawling brooks, shady woodlands, and green, copsy vales in which many feathered friends had lurked!
Birds of the Rockies
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Only among breeders of domestic poultry and female Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) does there seem to be a preference for big-breasted birds; in the case of sage-grouse, the males have developed an elaborate courtship display that exaggerates the size of the breast by expansion of large esophageal pouches and partial extension of cervical apteria (i.e., unfeathered areas between feather tracts), with larger-breasted males attracting and mating with more females.
Breasted Birds
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The guard was silver and resembled the feathered wings of a bird, only much thinner and made from metal.
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The feathered serpent flew up into the air, his body glowing in a heavenly way.
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Lieutenant Emerson was able to get the fire extinguished, then he feathered the propeller.
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They feed on insects, seed and shoots, digging in the snow with well-feathered feet and burrowing for food and shelter.
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He should count himself lucky not to have been tarred and feathered.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time, immediately after takeoff, the right prop governor failed and the prop feathered.
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But he could not take advantage of his early fortune and seconds later feathered one to the recalled wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal to leave England nine for one.
IcLanarkshire
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Never buy or sell an unweaned, not fully feathered bird.
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Ye feathered birds with necks outstretched, comrades of the racing clouds, on on! till ye reach the Pleiads in their central station and Orion, lord of the night; and as ye settle on Eurotas 'banks proclaim the glad tidings that Menelaus hath sacked the city of Dardanus, and will soon be home.
Helen
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Structure is feathered at the edges by cantilevers which reinforce the pervading impression of weightlessness.
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was marvellous and her feathered hat remained unruffled as she took her seat in the audience.
The Sun
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Unlike the similar-looking ostriches, the head, neck, and thighs of rheas are feathered.
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With an engine failure, the prop couldn't be feathered.
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Beside him is a green glass of absinthe and a pouting brunette in a feathered hat.
Times, Sunday Times
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After shutdown and confirmation, the propeller feathered with no pitchlock, and the pilots completed the emergency procedures.
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Turkey is easier, but anyone having a fancy for goose, duck, capon or our more unusual feathered friends shouldn't take any chances.
