feathers

It had the features of a man bewhiskered by clumps of loose feathers.

At dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

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.

A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

Penguins have a thick layer of insulating feathers that keeps them warm in water ( heat loss in water is much greater than in air ).

Little Penguins preen their feathers to keep them waterproof.

During the early 1980s she wore Renaissance poets ' velvet berets with plume feathers ( as shown in the vintage photo used on the cover of her March 2007 CD release Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks ).

The wings were only in length and the longest wing feathers were only long.

He is sometimes shown as a man asleep on a bed of feathers with black curtains about him.

Juveniles are similar to adults except that their upperpart feathers have pale fringes.

Some fossils consist only of skeletal remains or teeth ; other fossils contain traces of skin, feathers or even soft tissues.

Geoffrey Miller proposes that sexual selection might have contributed by creating evolutionary modules such as Archaeopteryx feathers as sexual ornaments, at first.

In addition to the production of nutmeg and mace, Banda maintained significant entrepot trade ; goods that moved through Banda included cloves from Ternate and Tidore in the north, bird of paradise feathers from the Aru Islands and western New Guinea, massoi bark for traditional medicines, and slaves.

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 long wingtip feathers which trail to the ground.

( Despite reduced size in aerodynamic feathers ) Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from some vultures.

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.

On litters strewn with flowers and feathers ; surrounded by dancers, they were transported to a shrine and their hearts would be pulled out by priests.

The cost of good quality feathers is similar to that of good quality plastics, but plastics are far more durable, typically lasting many matches without any impairment to their flight.

The breeding male ( drake ) is a striking bird with a mask of green feathers around its eyes and a cream colored cap running from the crown of its head to its bill.

The neck feathers may be stiffened and aligned to form grooves, absent in this species.

Alternatively two long feathers can be spiraled around the end of the arrow shaft.