She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

a lady drunk on her hands and knees who carries the hero around on her back while he throws pillow feathers in her face ; ;

He adds, " I could never see any part, except the back, which appeared to be covered with feathers of a dusky grey colour.

One of the grandest showpieces of the time was roast swan or peacock sewn back into its skin with feathers intact, the feet and beak being gilded.

The plural thunderbirds ( as the Kwakwaka ' wakw and Cowichan tribes believed ) could shapeshift into human form by tilting back their beaks like a mask, and by removing their feathers as if it were a feather-covered blanket.

In Jurassic Park III, the Velociraptor are depicted with quill-like structures along the back of the head and neck, although these do not resemble the down-like feathers known from real-life dromaeosaurids, and the quill knobs on some Velociraptor specimens show they had fully developed feathers akin to those of modern birds.

He has a badge of three ostrich feathers ( which can be seen on the reverse of the previous design for decimal British two pence coins dated up to 2008 ); it dates back to the Black Prince and is his as the English heir even before he is made Prince of Wales.

The feathers on the sides of its face are dark olive-brown, feathers on its back and rump are orange-red, and some of the outer wing feathers are dull-blue.

To measure the wingspan of a bird, a live or freshly dead specimen is placed flat on its back, the wings are grasped at the wrist joints, ankles and the distance is measured between the tips of the longest primary feathers on each wing.

The word " egret " comes from the French word " aigrette " that means both " silver heron " and " brush ," referring to the long filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season.

The back of the head and the neck have elongated feathers that have been described as gray or light purple white.

The black feathers on the back of African vultures are lined with brown, while Arabian birds are dark brown rather than black above.

The female is unusual in that it has a scalloped black or brownish-black mantle and back ; the dark feathers there are edged with white.

The adult male has a mostly white back with a narrow black stripe, and the female a blackish back ; the black feathers here are tipped with white similar to subspecies dorsalis.

Chicks develop fine downy feathers on their head, back and wings in the first week, and pinfeathers in the second week.

They sleep with the bill tucked under the scapular ( shoulder ) and back feathers, adopting this position sooner on colder nights.

Like other corvids, Black-billed Magpies indulge in anting ( applying ants onto their plumage ) and sun-bathing ( back facing the sun, head down, wings drooped and spread wide, tail fanned, back feathers fluffed up ).

Juvenile birds have the appearance of the female with a shorter tail until young males begin to grow characteristic bright feathers on the breast, head and back at about 10 weeks after hatching.

Notable features include slaty flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks ; the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front ; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black plumes running from just above the eye to the back of the head.

The feathers on the lower neck are long and plume-like ; it also has plumes on the lower back at the start of the breeding season.

In the display the loose feathers of the flanks are brought over and the primaries, and the patch on the shoulders is spread so as to make the white conspicuous, presumably to attract the female eye.

It has no discernible crest, with the head feathers a velvety black, the shoulders and back a deep purplish blue and all other parts a rich chestnut purple.

alt = Head and shoulders of man in Army uniform with Sam Brown belt and slouch hat with emu feathers.

Both sexes have a crest of wispy elongated feathers, reaching almost to the shoulders in adult males and being fairly short in females and immatures.

Several of the other subspecies are similar, but J. j. hypomelaena of western Panama and northern Colombia has all the chestnut plumage replaced by black, and J. j. scapularis of western Ecuador has some black feathers on its chestnut shoulders, and white outer primary feathers.

Together with the Red-spectacled Amazon and the Yellow-lored Amazon, it is the only Amazon species in which adult males and females easily can be distinguished by external appearance ( sexual dimorphism ): Males have bright red feathers on their " shoulders " ( alula ), while females have green " shoulders ".

Crest: A savage's head affrontée, couped at the shoulders, wreathed about the temples, issuing therefrom a plume of three ostrich feathers all proper.

Two wings with clearly defined, stylized feathers in three registers extend down from above her shoulders.

Lord, love us, look at all the disconnected limbs floating hereabouts, like bloody feathers at that -- and all the eyes are talking and all the hair are moving and all the tongue are in all the cheek.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

The coelurosaur dinosaurs found there represent types of the group Maniraptora, which is transitional between dinosaurs and birds, and are notable for the presence of hair-like feathers.

Since both birds are stringy, and taste unpleasant, the skin and feathers could be kept and filled with the cooked, minced and seasoned flesh of tastier birds, like goose or chicken.

There are clearly many similarities between the two: both had flying cloaks of falcon feathers and engaged in shape-shifting, Frigg was married to Odin while Freyja was married to Óðr, both had special necklaces, both had a personification of the Earth as a parent, both were called upon for assistance in childbirth, etc.

Two of these feathers allow his guns to swivel and fire automatically ( often while Tex's hands are raised ) and the other two allow his horse ( Rocky ) and his dog ( Dusty ) to speak English.

As Tex, his horse and dog are very thirsty, Kalamakooya also makes a waterfall where there had been no water before and so when the town was built, it was named after Tex's feathers and the waterfalls.

Ducks or Durulz are large intelligent ducks with arms instead of wings ( or men cursed with feathers and webbed feet, depending on your point of view ).

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.

Because the " middle term " of this syllogism is not one term, but two separate ones masquerading as one ( all feathers are indeed " not heavy ", but it is not true that all feathers are " bright "), this type of equivocation is actually an example of the fallacy of four terms.

In North and Central America, and to some extent in West Africa, Australia and other parts of the world, every male acquires at puberty a tutelary spirit ( see Demonology ); in some Native American tribes the youth kills the animal of which he dreams in his initiation fast ; its claw, skin or feathers are put into a little bag and become his " medicine " and must be carefully retained, for a " medicine " once lost can never be replaced.

The eagle feather law ( Title 50 Part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations ) stipulates that only individuals of certifiable Native American ancestry enrolled in a federally recognized tribe are legally authorized to obtain eagle feathers for religious or spiritual use.

The Ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters.

The feathers of adult males are mostly black, with white primaries and a white tail.

The feathers lack the tiny hooks that lock together the smooth external feathers of flying birds, and so are soft and fluffy and serve as insulation.

It has some small feathers on its head, and its neck and thighs are pink.