How To Use Feathery In A Sentence
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I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
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A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers.
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Our socks and finnesko, hung out to dry, were covered with most beautiful feathery crystals.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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This erect perennial has deeply cut, feathery foliage.
The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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Even the bill seems edible: it arrives laid out on a teak tray, meticulously hand-written on feathery rice paper, accompanied by two perfect tangerines.
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Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Red kites were hunting on the heights, their outstretched wings fluttering long feathery fingers.
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The female swimmerets are slightly larger and more feathery with tiny hairs, while the tail itself is often larger and more pliable to accommodate the eggs.
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The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water.
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This is a pure stand of baldcypress, their funny knees like stunted growth reaching up three or four feet, and then perhaps breaking into feathery needles.
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Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look.
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A line of huge, fresh cat's paw prints led from the waterside, over the sand to a pair of feathery scrape-marks like angels' wings in snow.
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It is a soft, feathery white layer of ice crystals that forms in clear skies, moist air and freezing cold.
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Obviously substituting in 150g of the more 'feathery' original Splenda would be out of the question.
The Fresh Loaf
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
This week's new singles
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I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
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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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The dress was trimmed on the cuffs and collar with soft, feathery, red fluff.
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Reef gardens are embellished with scarlet and orange staircase sponges and feathery gorgonian fans with their bright yellow branches.
Brenda Peterson: Gulf Oil Spill Meets Dead Zone: What Lies Beneath
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With the unlooked for assistance of the Americainian Indians, the feathery hordes were eventually beaten back.
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As far as the feathery biscuits are concerned, the word feathery says it all.
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The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted.
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The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
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For Sea Form, Bontecou raked wet printer's ink on a primed plastic surface to depict an ethereal, six-pointed star shape that evokes a feathery nest or squirming creature.
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I felt the soft material against my back and the feathery soft pillow that supported my head.
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Water striders are covered stem to stem and toe to toe with a layer of tiny, waxy, feathery hairs in which countless minuscule air bubbles are trapped.
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Plant this feathery-leaf palm in a well-draining, organically enriched sandy soil with a southern exposure or in a courtyard.
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The taller ones with softer, feathery leaves are kanuka — same family.’
The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
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Her skin was rosy from the sun's prolonged touch, and her short, feathery hair was limp.
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When the feathery shoots appear, they will grow up around the carrot top to make a pretty hanging basket.
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Dandelion has what is called a "pappus" attached to its seed, rather similar to the feathery tail of the Traveller's Joy.
Wildflowers of the Farm
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The feathery tamarisk [*] and the nabk, the moringa, the carob, or locust tree several varieties of acacia and mimosa-the sont, the mimosa habbas, the white acacia, the Acacia Parnesxana -- and the pomegranate tree, increase in number with the distance from the
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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To clinch the argument, we needed a fossil that unambiguously showed a nonavian dinosaur with a feathery body covering.
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It was plain from the first light, feathery exchanges that losing was more than either team could bear.
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My pink cowboy hat with a built-in tiara, now also sporting a feathery Mardi Gras mask.
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This condition, called neoteny, means it keeps its tadpole-like dorsal fin, which runs almost the length of its body, and its feathery external gills, which protrude from the back of its wide head.
Undefined
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I behold the _corozo_ -- of the same genus with the _palma real_ -- its light feathery frondage streaming outwards and bending downwards, as if to protect from the hot sun the globe-shaped nuts that hang in grape-like clusters beneath.
The Rifle Rangers
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The generic appellations of the several species of Ferns are derived thus: _Aspidium_, from _aspis_, a shield, because the spores are enclosed in bosses; _Pteris_, from _pteerux_, a wing, having doubly pinnate fronds; or from _pteron_, a feather, having feathery fronds;
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Gwyneth tried to get up by leaning on her left arm for support, but she winced in pain as she did so, and fell back down onto the soft feathery pillows.
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The foliage was soft and feathery.
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Use an angled brush for a soft feathery finish.
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This has feathery plumes of purple flowers about 3ft high, and works well when used in large drifts.
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Use an angled brush for a soft feathery finish.
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Following the line of the coast the road is narrow, uniformly fringed with spiky gold crotons, banked with thick hedges of frangipani and hibiscus, and draped with feathery casuarina known to islanders as ironwood or Toa.
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As they grew stronger, she turned into her pillow and tried to muffle the sound in the feathery mass.
Western Man
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The occasion would have been a family car trip; the time, the late '50s - the haute Vegas era of feathery showgirls, sharpies in Sy Devore suits, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Sands.
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Holliday always appears to begin with feathery, illusionistic brushstrokes that suggest an expansive, cinematic space and then improvises over them with a repertoire of painterly conventions.
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-looking guiltily up from a display of feathery, plumy things.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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I doubt I'd be able to choose what either of them looked like, but since we're here, I'd like my wings to be feathery and dark grey, and I'd also like them to grow from my scapulae.
J-gan Diary Entry
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A smartly cut, nubby grey dress is finished off with a flirty feathery hemline, while a fabulous brown flared skirt got a lift from a spray of guinea hen feathers.
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The species achillea, or common yarrow produces white flowers but hybrids now burst into terracotta, yellow, pink and cerise clusters - fabulous against their feathery grey foliage.
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On other types of paper marker ink sinks in and may create marks with a slightly fused and feathery edge.
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Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world.
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The feathery plumes will soften any environment.
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The chirp and tweet of the feathery creatures greet one as one nears this market beyond Laad Bazar.
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The feathery foliage turns a dark crimson in autumn.
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Give him to the Believe-It-or-Not museum, along with a photograph of his eyes and his feathery blond hair.
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A light, feathery plant for dappled shade.
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feathery palm trees
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He hurried into the street and looked back at the church, then up to the tall steeple which was faintly visible in the feathery flakes.
THE OUTSIDER
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Anne bought the smallest and cleverest, a white dog with a feathery coat and one blue and one brown eye.
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The Jordan Valley is a perfect avian sluiceway; for millennia a feathery tide has ridden it, indifferent to the human dramas playing out below.
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That one sweet moment of tender love and care, wrapped up in a light feathery kiss.
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Duck prosciutto, a "medium" bite, weaves across a plate of feathery mizuna its bite is like that of arugula, toasted walnuts and tart marbles of compressed apple, everything drizzled with walnut oil.
Tom Sietsema on Bluegrass Tavern: New Baltimore eatery celebrates 'bites'
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The sky was a grey feathery mass; the rain pattered down in little stinging freezing drops.
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Outside, the snow was falling steadily in feathery flakes, hiding the grime of London beneath a garment of shimmering white and transforming the commonplace houses built of brick and mortar, each capped with its ugly chimneystack, into glittering fairy palaces, crowned with silver towers and minarets.
The Lamp of Fate
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She is worshipped chiefly by women; but some of the workers on the railroad begged branches of the feathery yellow acacia, which is now in bloom, to carry with them to the temple in San Francisco.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
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And in a room you would select a vase that would harmonize with the coloring," added Margaret, who was mixing sweetpeas in loose bunches with feathery gypsophila.
Ethel Morton's Enterprise
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A light, feathery plant for dappled shade.
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His hair sprouts upwards from his head and his speech is exuberant, his voice feathery and light, and there is an airiness to him that contradicts the expectation of the marble toughness required to succeed in business.
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For much of the season, the focus is on feathery, blue green Hughes juniper and silver-leafed snow-in-summer.
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A feathery, fluttery songbird can become a legal eagle or, at least, eaglet.
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White flowers and feathery foliage in summer.
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Use an angled brush for a soft feathery finish.
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The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
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The ghostly looking Mexican axolotl retains some of its larval features for life, including its feathery pink external gills.
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Can you suggest something else that would provide some feathery green flowers?
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Their smaller relatives mizuna and mibuna form low, spreading clumps of long, narrow leaves, those of mizuna being finely divided and feathery.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it.
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The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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She woke to a blissfully comfortable state, smothered in a cocoon of feathery soft blankets.
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There is also a capuchin pigeon with a feathery topknot.
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the feathery congregation of jays
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Once you've decided on a shape, make short, light, upward feathery strokes with a soft, well-sharpened pencil to replicate the natural brow hairs.
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Each plant forms a clump of delicate fern-like, light green foliage from which emerge arching, pyramid-shaped branching panicles of tiny flowers that give a soft feathery appearance to the plant.
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Picking up a small dandelion as they walked, Sara struggled to blow off all the flimsy, feathery seedlings.
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The feathery foliage turns a dark crimson in autumn.
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These are delicate, feathery to fuzzy-looking fingers and differ from the more stalactitic and concentrically banded forms that probably result from a different process.
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Though drab from October to March, this bird, which is actually more closely related to puffins than auklets, sprouts a small white horn and feathery facial plumes during breeding season.
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She whispered that the Devil hid behind the curtains, a red devil with a feathery red tail.
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At their distance from the shore it was impossible to make out the individual trees, but there seemed to be clumps of noble pines some distance in, and the valleys were made ornamental with some kind of feathery growth.
The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens
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The stars come out in all their feathery frocked finery (and seem to drink rather freely, judging from shows past), and one gets to watch the weird, awkward high-school hierarchy of television actors mixing it up with big movie stars.
The Week in DVR
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The exserted stamens and feathery stigma branches, unique in the family, along with the preference of most species for open habitats, suggests wind pollination.
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It was enclosed by low hills whose sides were covered with the tree-ferns; their feathery fronds clothed them as though they were the breasts of gigantic birds of Paradise; threw themselves up from them like fountains; soared over them like vast virescent wings.
Dwellers in the Mirage
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His footfall was a feathery thing that carried him like a shadow to the door.
Way of the Lawless
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He portrays his wife with the lightest of touches, using red chalk, heightened with white in soft, feathery strokes which evince the profound French influence on his art.
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From its surprisingly small feet spread white, feathery wings at its heels.
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They brushed the star-speckled sky with their feathery branches, fractured the moon's cold light, spangled it in a hundred directions.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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There was a large queen size bed with slender bedposts that held curtains, the same color as the soft berry colored satin sheets that seemed to glimmer with the light, and plush white feathery pillows.
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Give him to the Believe-It-or-Not museum, along with a photograph of his eyes and his feathery blond hair.
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The feathery plumes will soften any environment.
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One soft feathery head was in yellowish green, another of more neutral colour; and blending with them were the tints of a few reddish soft-tinted alders below.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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Red kites were hunting on the heights, their outstretched wings fluttering long feathery fingers.
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This erect perennial has deeply cut, feathery foliage.
The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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The feathery plumes will soften any environment.
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Late-blooming clematis grew up the trellis, forming a wall of flowers in a rainbow's colours, feathery seed heads and green leaves, enclosing the patio.
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We pulled a toothpick through the frosting to give the feathers a more "feathery" appearance.
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Ay, 'tis a bit aff!" drawled "Feathery" Joltram, thrusting his great hands deep into his capacious trouser-pockets.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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Until this year the drawings were all in black pencil, varying from soft, deep-black graphite to feathery silverpoint, and sometimes ranging widely in a single image.
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This has feathery plumes of purple flowers about 3ft high, and works well when used in large drifts.
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The occasion would have been a family car trip; the time, the late '50s - the haute Vegas era of feathery showgirls, sharpies in Sy Devore suits, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Sands.
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The sensation of sumptuous lips crushed against your own is every bit as euphoric as the indulgent delight of the feathery beginning.
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The A to Z of conservatory plants starts with the feathery yellow flowers of the acacia in bloom from December to March.
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There is softness in the luxuriance of the grass and the leaves of the silverweed, still curled in upon themselves and looking pale and almost feathery.
Country diary
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White and gold rocks, rimmed round with purple butterwort, Indian paintbrush and feathery yellow stonecrop, created magnificent tumbles of color in the desolate landscape.
Blood Lure
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This plant grows to a height of 1.2 m with feathery, finely divided leaves.
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The most famous computer-generated fractal is called the Mandelbrot set - a swirling, feathery, seemingly organic landscape that is reminiscent of the natural world, but is nonetheless completely virtual.
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She stares down at the infant and reaches out to touch its fine, feathery black hair.
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The stuccoed end facing the intersecting neighborhood street combines with feathery pennisetum grasses to soften the hard-edged look.
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In the high hedges the ruddy cane of the willows was smothered by the succulent green tips of hawthorn and bramble; and on the rolling countryside that belle of trees, the larch, stood out among the copperish buds of the beeches and the first tightly folded leaves of the chestnuts, with a pale green feathery loveliness all its own.
The Way Home
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This has feathery plumes of purple flowers about 3ft high, and works well when used in large drifts.
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The same process can also be applied to fennel - cover the bulb but leave the feathery fronds free.
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These species float near the surface of the water on their feathery extended tentacles and hunt jellyfish.
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The scratched detailing of the vignettes and the presence of feathery foliage, pebbles and floral bouquets enables the definitive attribution of these pieces to Giles.
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Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look.
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It was the father; a rather short, stout man with a feathery blonde mustache, who spoke for the rest.
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Pretty, feathery leaves of dill make a wonderful contribution to the texture of the herb garden.
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We were climbing in good earnest now, and the trees began to change; small groves of chestnut trees, large patches of oak and hickory, with scattered dogwood and persimmon, chinkapin and poplar, surrounded us in waves of feathery green.
Drums of Autumn
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What think you of callas -- their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Planting makes use of indigenous species, like the frothy casuarinas (feathery tree native to Australia) along the northern edges of the site and the native grasses which cover low earth berms around the range.
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Affixed to the top of it, swaying as he moves, is a bunch of feathery artificial leaves.
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Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose.
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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With the push of a button the hatch swung open immediately reducing the million pigeons to just under a million with a wet feathery splat.
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He portrays his wife with the lightest of touches, using red chalk, heightened with white in soft, feathery strokes which evince the profound French influence on his art.
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The crystals of rose-stearoptene are light, feathery, shining plates, filling the whole liquid.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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Can you suggest something else that would provide some feathery green flowers?
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When the feathery shoots appear, they will grow up around the carrot top to make a pretty hanging basket.
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In October, the foliage is dulled a little but still lush, and pepped up by the cardinal vine, a feathery companion with tiny star blossoms.
Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
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An orange feathered boa that properly accents the funky new green crushed velour shirt and pink cowboy hat with a built-in tiara, now also sporting a feathery Mardi Gras mask.
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Can you suggest something else that would provide some feathery green flowers?
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The same process can also be applied to fennel - cover the bulb but leave the feathery fronds free.
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For thirty miles the track passes under the deep shade of coco palms, of which Puna is the true home; and from under their feathery shadow, and from amidst the dark leafage of the breadfruit, gleamed the rose-crimson apples of the eugenia, and the golden balls of the guava.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Florentine fennel, also known as finocchio by Italian cooks, looks like a flattened bunch of celery with a bulbous base and feathery green leaves.
Make It Easy Make It Light
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Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown.
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As he passed through the shadows cast by the feathery branches of a punga tree, he became a tiger, padding toward her on all fours.
Once An Angel
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It's good for feathery lips and deep frown lines.
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Each feeding leg, split into two branches, carries stiff bristles and feathery setae.
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Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look.
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The shell itself is a three-layer non-porous, breathable membrane and the outer fabric is feathery 30 - denier ripstop nylon.
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It's good for feathery lips and deep frown lines.
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Only that one word, with a sorrowful shake of the graceful head, covered with feathery ringlets in the dainty fashion of that day, so becoming in youth, so inappropriate to advancing years, when the rich profusion of curls came straight from Chedreux, or some of his imitators, and baldness was hidden by the spoils of the dead.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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White flowers and feathery foliage in summer.
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In 1973, a hailstorm in Arkansas encased ducks in so much ice they were described as feathery bowling balls.
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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The feathery-appearing bowel distal to the smoother contour duodenum is the jejunum, and it is in the right lower quadrant!
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The practice in question is the growing of goldenrod, a tallish native weed with feathery yellow plumes.
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Use an angled brush for a soft feathery finish.
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The coyotes and robins and bunnies and foxes and deer have been busy fornicating and the products of their amours have been popping their cute little furry/feathery heads up all around town.
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By now reddish feathery streaks coloured sections of the blue sky, and more birds were homing towards their nests.
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Gentle Silk Lotus: The rich and exotic scent of lotus is combined with feathery sweet notes of jasmine, tuberose and frangipani.
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The leaves of the three trees glow with a blurred, feathery effect that effuses light across the perfectly black sky.
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Finely divided feathery bright green leaves.
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The domains were relatively symmetric about their long axis but unsymmetrical from the ‘duck's’ nose to its feathery tail.
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These are the caves beneath the waves, where stripy fish with feathery fins and sharks with hideous toothy grins swam round the whale and the snail on his tail.
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Fruit: A small achene tipped with long feathery white bristles
Find Me A Cure
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The XL is a powerful, pocket size light tipping the scales at a feathery 5 ounces.
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And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences.
The Metal Monster
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Eight humans - all but Gren - hurled themselves among the feathery leafage on its back, stabbing deep into the epicarp to wound its rudimentary nervous system.
HOTHOUSE
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From the haze fell snowflakes - first a slow, drifting fall of feathery flakes, then a faster fall that lasted longer, then a hailstorm.
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Flat heads of flowers ranging from subtle yellows and pinks to the spiciest of colours in feathery foliage.
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Province Wellesley, under a row of magnificent casuarina trees, with gray, feathery foliage drooping over a beach of corals and, behind which are the solemn glades of cocoa-nut groves.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Gentle Silk Lotus: The rich and exotic scent of lotus is combined with feathery sweet notes of jasmine, tuberose and frangipani.
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If you want to soften the effect of flowers with strongly defined shapes, use feathery foliage such as dill.
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To apply shadow, begin at the inner corners of the brow and follow its natural shape using light, feathery strokes.
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A light, feathery plant for dappled shade.
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Soon the feathery lace work of bamboos beneath which they sat were whispering to the night-wind that had roused at the dropping of the huge ball of fire in the west, and the soft radiance of a gentle moon was gilding with silver the gaunt black arms of a babool.
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