How To Use Feathering In A Sentence
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Perpendicular window, to support which the low circular arch in the centre had been constructed; on either side of this window were now to be seen the mouldings and featherings of the original early decorated lights, on a level with the lateral clerestory range; below these the Norman arcade, based upon a string course of nebule ornaments.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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‘Philadelphia,’from the Amaryllis family, has white with salmon-red feathering, and huge double flowers.
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Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.
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If that doesn't happen, the old centrist, false-hearted, nest-feathering Democratic Party will sooner or later be as thoroughly despised by decent, thoughtful, intelligent, caring Americans (surely not a permanent minority!) as the Republican Party is already despised.
Frank Dwyer: Throw the Bums Out ... Ours, Too
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They have longish bills, and they seem to have pale gape lines, though I can't tell whether that's skin or feathering.
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These two categories of toxins are the cause of a range of ailments - ergot alkaloids may lead to poor feathering and lesions forming on chickens, fescue foot in ruminants and shrunken udders in sows, while endotoxins are responsible for endotoxic shock and death.
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= Leaves prolonged on the stem beneath the insertion: branchlets springing out beneath the point of furcation, as the feathering along the trunk of elms, etc.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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The tarring and feathering of the sport has been a degrading spectacle these past few weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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At another table, two women were re-feathering roasted peacocks with feathers colored by saffron and yellow turnsole.
Soul of the Fire
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Feathering should be trimmed every few months, both to give the dog a smart appearance and to repel the grime that seems to accumulate there.
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Rubio is yet another clownish conservative whose primary skill is sounding tought and feathering his own nest and yet the tea party sees him as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Crist brushes off top adviser's resignation
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Lois made a small feathering gesture with her hand and stamped her heel silently.
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Outspoken supporters of the king were threatened with public humiliation such as tarring and feathering or physical attack.
History of American Women
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If organized is quite the word - but the point is, you could put ink on and it was much more inclined to stay put, so we could start tinkering with feathering and other decorative techniques.
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It is related to other means of social control that arise in communities, such as charivari, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering.
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This last one is causing me the most grief - lots of feathering on so-called inkjet paper.
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The ink dot sharpness, text feathering , and Ink-jet Dot Quality Index by expressing the behavior of the penetration and diffusion of ink were used to evaluate the printing quality.
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At the first red lights, she applied the eye-liner and was feathering in the edges of the eye shadow as the cab took off again.
COMPULSION
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Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.
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However, the feathering is definitely thin, and this may cause the bird to chill.
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Oh yes please; tar and feathering and/or flogging first though. radgie gadgie
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Apparently Australian and English magpies are not close cousins although they have similar feathering.
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Snyder became renowned for his delicate layered brushstrokes painstakingly applied to produce highly detailed feathering.
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The throttle and fuel mixture for the left engine were secured and the pilot activated the left engine feathering button again.
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The mistake doesn't justify tarring and feathering - perhaps just a spell in the stocks?
Times, Sunday Times
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The pilot looked toward the left engine to confirm the feathering.
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Among the different inflictions purposed, none seemed to please them better, than the idea of tarring and feathering him, all which I would gladly have seen him endure, but the worst of it was, after all, the general was not in their power.
Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830
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It was the usual recount of social events, told with the sharp wit of the infamous Lady Featherington.
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Moderate setter-like feathering adorns the chest, underbody , backs of the legs, buttocks, and may also be present on the second thigh and underside of the tail.
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Feathering may occur on the ear fringes, legs, breeching, and tail.
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She was rarely unaware of his gaze; over the last week it had become almost familiar, like a warm breath feathering her skin.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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I'd hoped to keep up the work in a freelance, semidetached kind of way, but in reality, I spent most of my days feathering our nest - a cottage on the farm.
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But it's not exactly an 18th-century tarring and feathering, is it?
Times, Sunday Times
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At the top was the Hanoverian King George II, who could not speak English and who was surrounded by ministers and courtiers feathering their nests and stabbing each other in the back.
George Washington’s First War
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I listened to Heike sleeping, felt the warmth of her hip on my thigh, her ribs feathering my flank.
A DARKENING STAIN
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But by extending the range in 1 yard increments, the technique, including in-flight feathering of the spool, becomes completely natural, and automatic.
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If the form to be worked necessitates radiation in the stitching, there results a texture something like the feathering of a bird's breast (Illustration 85), whence the name plumage-stitch, another term describing not so much a stitch as the use of a stitch.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
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While I'm puttering around playing with words, other people are investing and accumulating and feathering their nests and compounding their interest.
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Koizumi wants to reform the impossibly cliquey Liberal Democratic Party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami.
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If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal.
Speaking in Tongues
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The juvenile looks similar but lacks the white facial feathering and black markings on the belly.
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The sound he had heard was the feathering of the starboard prop.
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On final, I'd consider shutting down and feathering the second engine, toggling the prop horizontal again.
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The juvenile looks similar but lacks the white facial feathering and black markings on the belly.
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By now she knew that each thunderous outburst of the volcano launched a dark roostertail of ash out from the central column, feathering the sky with falling cinders and bombs.
Firestorm
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The feathering is so intricate that it looks like the iridescent scales of a fish.
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The Norwich is another large bird, sometimes called a feather pillow because of the bulk of its feathering.
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If they are then, in a reverse of this situation, enabled to declare their London home as their principal home for Tax purposes, this surely is a feathering of the nest which, whilst lawful at the moment, ought to be abolished right away.
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He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami.
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The many juvenile harriers working the mound wore their orange winter plumage, a stark contrast to the hawk's black, white, and brown feathering.
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Packaged in a sleek gold tube, it keeps lips smooth, fills in any lines around lips and prevents lipstick from feathering around your mouth (even on smokers).
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I reacted by feathering the right propeller and securing the right engine.
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The breast and belly are solid white, contrasting sharply with the rufous feathering on the legs.
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In actual fact what he was doing was feathering his own nest at the expense of the nests of the people.
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The throttle and fuel mixture for the left engine were secured and the pilot activated the left engine feathering button again.
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Granite - a single slab, unbroken and unmarred, smoothed by Sun and Rain, hugged by Salal and Fir where it met surrounding Cliff, with Fern and Moss feathering it as it touched Pool's edge.
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In actual fact what he was doing was feathering his own nest at the expense of the nests of the people.
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Lois made a small feathering gesture with her hand and stamped her heel silently.
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As the drake loses his bright plumage and acquires the more subdued feathering of the female, the bird appears to become hormonally sexually neutral and, for the remaining duration of the eclipse period, remains as a female.
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He often employed a personal technique: feathering his surfaces on the top layer with small white brushstrokes, which delicately muffle the colors underneath.
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To keep these elements of the image alive, Newman made himself into a virtuoso of sorts, alternating deliberate feathering and scumbling with less easily controlled effects of bleeding and soaking.
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As the drake loses his bright plumage and acquires the more subdued feathering of the female, the bird appears to become hormonally sexually neutral and, for the remaining duration of the eclipse period, remains as a female.
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Tame birds, when approached, will stretch out their necks and ruffle their neck feathering.
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But there's also another theory that perhaps there were creatures actually living in the trees that had the downy feathering as well and flight started as an adaptation of the gliding between trees.
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He hung there, layered with ice as hailstones formed, a grey powdery coating rushing out of the mauve and grey mist, invading his ears and nostrils, feathering his eyebrows, freezing his crotch.
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In just 15 days, they look plumper and less lined and lipstick stops ‘feathering’ and lasts longer.
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He often employed a personal technique: feathering his surfaces on the top layer with small white brushstrokes, which delicately muffle the colors underneath.
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The kneecapping, tar and feathering, the beatings, and the killing (if you didn't comply with the 1st warning) were respected by many in the nationalist community.
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Tame birds, when approached, will stretch out their necks and ruffle their neck feathering.
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The snow was feathering down out of a bruised, blackened sky.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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I do dislike the idea of tarring and feathering Barack Obama for every little thing he does, but this is somewhat embarrassing etiquette for a President of the United States.
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