How To Use Plumed In A Sentence
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Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet.
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See this fellow, rage in his face and heart, carrying by the legs his cock, deplumed and dead.
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
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Sissy went out back and gathered feathers where her mama had recently deplumed a hen.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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Tail set high, plumed and carried in a gay curl over the back when moving.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Some of the valuable horse aigrettes, which are encrusted and plumed, are also kept in the treasury.
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When he came, Mistress Marian was standing i 'th' great door o 'th' castle, in her hawking gown o 'green velure cloth laced all with silver cord; her plumed hat was on her curls, and her hawk, Beryl, on her fist.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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At first it's impossible to see anything through the thick mass of branches, but suddenly I spot a beautiful scarlet-plumed tanager perched on a branch.
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The genus Pulsatilla includes about 30 species, many of which are valued for their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads.
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On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky.
The Silverado Squatters
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The story is that the jackdaw was very quietly displumed.
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The Continental became the meeting place for journalists covering the Vietnam War and for all the multi-plumed hangers-on anxious to make a dollar out of chaos.
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Women's coronets were gemmed or plumed, filmy cloaks fluttered from shoulders, lustrous biofabric shaped and reshaped itself to them as they moved.
Starfarers
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This reptilian monster has various forms in its plastic representations, according to the style of each region; it can appear as a bicephalous dragon or a 2-headed plumed serpent; and also as a bird with serpent features.
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Other notable species include South American pochard Netta erythrophthalma and golden-plumed conure Leptosittaca branickii (VU).
Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru
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Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
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He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat.
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Felix could see a man in the shining armour and plumed helmet of a Reiksguard knight.
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His hair itself plumed up, then swept back and down over his long skull to cascade to his waist.
A TIME OF WAR
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If they're not terrorists, if they're pirates as you say―although the name makes me think of men in plumed hats with swords rather than semi-automatic weapons―then they are only self-interested and are taking what they want.
Passeridae
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My son," said Anne of Austria, showing him the mousquetaire, who stood with his plumed hat in his hand, calm, grave, and collected,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
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white-plumed egrets
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Farewell plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue!
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They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
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Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked.
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Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality?
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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The latter's hat rode breathtakingly high atop her massive bronze curls, a giant plumed ostrich feather finished the air.
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Before him loomed two guards, tall and proud, clad in plumed helms and clutching spears shod in bronze and steel.
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Pete saw the purple-masked face with the black moustache, the purple plumed pirate hat, the gold-laced purple coat!
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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[2] All his squires were equipped as he was, with scarlet tunics, breastplates of bronze, and brazen helmets plumed with white, short swords, and a lance of cornel-wood apiece.
Cyropaedia
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The minstrels have a fabliau of a daw with borrowed feathers — why, this Oliver is The very bird, and, by St. Dunstan, if he lets his chattering tongue run on at my expense, I will so pluck him as never hawk plumed a partridge.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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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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Long plumed white birds called over the cliff walls as the beach lay before them, their breakfast and lunch laid out for their leisure.
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They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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Chaco, Wupatki, and Aztec had imported the brightly plumed macaws.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
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Some ant followers are versatile enough to find food by various methods, but others such as the white-plumed antbird, Pithys albifrons, and the rufous-throated antbird, Gymnopithys rufigula are specialists, depending utterly on the armies they follow.
The Song of The Dodo
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IN 1897, 46,000 plumed and scrubbed troops marched through London to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
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He was recognized by his flamboyant uniform and plumed hat.
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It was however simply a plumed seed of rosebay willowherb whose offspring in a late summer breeze swirl through the air like snow in winter.
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Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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My mother delighted in towering over him, wearing her hair in an upsweep, donning a wiglet for extra height, and then topping it all off with a hat—not some discreet cloche or beret but a plumed number with feathers soaring six inches up into the air.
In the Fullness of Time
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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But one day he began to do acrobatic tricks on the beams in the kitchen and fell into the pot of stew with a sailor's shout of every man for himself, and with such good luck the cook managed to scoop him out with the ladle, scalded and deplumed but still alive.
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At that moment, in strode a gallantly plumed lord with his servants.
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It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock.
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The hanging Tower at Pisa is, we believe, some thirty feet or so off the perpendicular, and there is one at Caerphilly about seventeen; but these are nothing to the castles in the air we have seen built by the touch of a female magician; nor is it an unusual thing with artists of the fair sex to order their plumed chivalry to gallop down precipices considerably steeper than a house, on animals apparently produced between the tiger and the bonassus.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Dalgliesh wondered what aberrant fancy had conceived that effeminate angel with his curdle of yellow hair under the plumed helmet or the sword embellished with glutinous lozenges in ruby, bright blue and orange with which he was ineffectively barring the two delinquents from an apple orchard Eden.
She Closed Her Eyes
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What do you know about botany?" said Edwin, sharply and rather irrelevantly as it seemed, till I remembered how he plumed himself upon knowledge of this science, and how he had persisted in taking Maud, and her governess also, long wintry walks across the country, "in order to study the cryptogamia.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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My mother delighted in towering over him, wearing her hair in an upsweep, donning a wiglet for extra height, and then topping it all off with a hat—not some discreet cloche or beret but a plumed number with feathers soaring six inches up into the air.
In the Fullness of Time
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In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
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The country would be in the grip of a military caste—the monocled, beplumed, sword-bearing Junkers.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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The rider wore a gilded Grecian helmet that was crested with black and red wool and plumed with a white tuft.
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Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles.
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Dust and debris plumed above the cleft while more boulders cascaded down.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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But in those places, their absence didn't seem pretentious, as it did in the third one-star eatery, Plumed Horse (www. plumedhorse.co.uk) — for here both the bread and the grilse (young salmon) were undersalted to my taste.
From Ships to Michelin Stars
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Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches.
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Dust plumed and fell back to its original place.
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She was a very pretty little person, evidently nearer fifty than forty, but with rosy cheeks, sparkling black eyes, and shining black hair, surmounted by a wonderful beflowered and beplumed bonnet.
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It emerges from the waters of the right bank, a mere "ponton" plumed with dark mangroves and streaked with spar-like white trunks.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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The stalks of the heavily plumed plants were thick.
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Rowdy pigs pushed the passers by off the side walk; tipsy pigs hiccoughed their version of "We wont go home till morning," from the gutter; and delicate young pigs tripped daintily through the mud, as if, like "Mrs. Peery-bingle," they plumed themselves upon their ankles, and kept themselves particularly neat in point of stockings.
Hospital Sketches
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Doctor are also baulked of their revenge, just as they are getting over the preliminary pains and vexations; and, while pluming themselves with anticipated honours, are suddenly deplumed into
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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Antiochus was furious alike at what he termed the insolence of a handful of outlaws, and the cowardice of his picked troops, who had flaunted their banners and gone forth as if to assured victory, and had then fled like some gay-plumed bird before the swoop of the eagle.
Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History
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A steep headland springing from a ledge of rock on the north, and a broad, embayed-based flat converging into an obtruding sand-spit to the west, enclose a bay scarcely half a mile from one horn to the other, the sheet of water almost a perfect crescent, with the rocky islet of Purtaboi, plumed with trees, to indicate the circumference of a circle.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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“Halt right there!” ordered a subofficer with a plumed helm.
THE SUNDERING
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None of its limbs should be cut, skinned or immersed in hot water or feathers be deplumed without making sure of its death.
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The groom wore a close-fitting blue or red vest and a plumed hat.
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Pink-plumed birds called roseate spoonbills flew overhead and big, leafy American lotuses glistened on a distant bank.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
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Farewell plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue!
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This, in turn, was quelled, and a curious quiet reigned again as the deputies from the nobles made their appearance in their rich dress, with cloak gold-faced, white silk stockings, and beplumed hat.
Calvert of Strathore
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No smoke plumed out of the factory's great chimneys.
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In 18th-century England, Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, used her extravagant tastes to support the Whig cause against George III, wearing outrageously plumed hats to political rallies.
Le Freak, C
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And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers.
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The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights.
The Innocents Abroad
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It showed a tall, imposing female standing proud in a splendid gown of state, a coronet on her piled blonde hair, one gloved hand resting on the arm of a throne, the other holding a plumed fan, the sash of a jewelled order over her bare shoulders, and enough bijouterie disposed about her stately person to start a bazaar.
Watershed
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Slain roosters are deplumed for use as feather dusters, and are cooked in a special dish called talunan, while others are simply buried by their grieving owners.
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Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue!
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I'm still wondering about the man in the plumed turban standing apart and detached watching sailors and vendors at work.
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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.
Paras. 350-374
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They made endless shrill distinctions and plumed themselves on their beauty and education and sensitivity.
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It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official.
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The Austrian eagle was only to escape from one enemy, to be displumed by another.
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The service began with a flag procession by purple-plumed members of the Knights of Columbus and ended with the singing of "America the Beautiful.
Supreme Court justices kick off session with traditional Red Mass
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What do you know about botany?" said Edwin, sharply and rather irrelevantly as it seemed, till I remembered how he plumed himself upon his knowledge of this science, and how he had persisted in taking Maud, and her governess also, long wintry walks across the country, "in order to study the cryptogamia.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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There were the gaudily plumed roseate spoonbills, their bright pink feathers glowing when they passed between my hide and the rising sun.
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They wear high, plumed hats with blue and white feathers.
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I imagined myself in that plumed helmet, that iron sword in my hand, and that cold sneer on my lips.
Bone Hinge
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Another one is of a man with a pikestaff and a big plumed hat; probably painted around 1500–1520 and fairly certainly not religious.
Life in a medieval home
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a plumed helmet
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There she was, in a high-crowned, beplumed hat, and tailored white dress with a shoulder cape, at her uncle's side on the ship's bridge, looking at the throng who had come to greet them.
The Return of Madame Royale, April 1814
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The carcass is then deplumed and rinsed using a conventional picker with ambient temperature salt-water.
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Flameless -- motionless -- hurtless -- the fine arrow; unplumed, unpoisoned, and unbarbed; aimless -- shall we say also, readers young and old, travelling or abiding?
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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The doctor, a lank, pock-pitted embodiment of mad chirurgy from books and antique herbal delusions inherited from generations of simple healers, mixed noxious stuff in a gallipot and plumed himself upon some ounces of gore drawn from his victim.
Doom Castle
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Cylart was sometimes referred to as being a greyhound, but only because any large dog who was not too square or bulky was often called a greyhound at that time in much the same way that many people today refer to all breeds of northern dogs with bushy hair, a pointed face, pricked ears, and a plumed tail that is carried curved over its back as a “Husky”.
The Pawprints of History
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She was naked except for a beplumed helmet, armbands, anklets and a girdle of colored ostrich feathers and she sprawled upon the silken cushions with her limbs thrown about in voluptuous abandon.
The Moon of Skulls
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Her beplumed hat floated in a pool of disfiguring water, her long suede gloves lay in a ditch and her white satin wedding slippers, alas, hung by their tiny heels at the top of a tree in a neighboring township, the only tree in the entire surrounding county, put there, in all probability, to catch and hold them for her.
The Way of the Wind
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We go look for a nice plumed bird and some really good farmer's organic vegetables.
Model Erin O'Connor Is a Londoner at Heart
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Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
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Ye cootie moorcocks, crousely craw; [leg-plumed, confidently]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face.
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Another one is of a man with a pikestaff and a big plumed hat; probably painted around 1500–1520 and fairly certainly not religious.
Life in a medieval home
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‘God, I hate this war,’ Marcs said, as another explosion plumed through the air.
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Other useful clothing options include a large white-plumed hat and a pair of luminescent running shoes with good traction.
Crossing the carretera
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Mark Antony and Coriolanus and Francis the First, the plumed barons of the feudal days, and their embroidered and belaced ladies, with the whole merrie companie of pages, fools, troubadours and heralds, seem on the whole to have had fine times of it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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the plumed serpent
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I marveled at the rich photos and detailed copy—and desperately coveted that oval snuffbox with the plumed helmet on the lid.
Browser's Delight
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The old with broken lances, and in helmets which had lost their vizards — the young in armour bright which shone like gold, beplumed with each gay feather of the east — all — all tilting at it like fascinated knights in tournaments of yore for fame and love.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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She appeared in a stiff shirtwaist, her soft hair piled into a chignon, topped by a big plumed hat.