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"Feathered" Quotes from Famous Books

... the unobtrusive small deer of life—the snails, and beetles, and flies, and earthworms—and especially with the winged things: birds, bats, and butterflies. In the very earliest days of my islands' existence, indeed, a few stray feathered fowls of the air were driven ashore here by violent storms, at a time when vegetation had not yet begun to clothe the naked pumice and volcanic rock; but these, of course, perished for want of food, as did also a few later arrivals, ...

— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen

... on the vowels and consonants; but a friend that was with me solved the difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did anything else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils; and that the birds were thus distinct in their lessons ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... wild and sylvan notes When morn's full chorus pours Rejoicing from a thousand feathered throats, And the ...

— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean

... "I wish you hadn't—I wish we hadn't. I know just exactly what he feels like now. He feels as if he'd like to kill you for it, and I daresay he would if you hadn't been a craven, white-feathered skulker and ...

— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit

... happened at this very moment to be emerging stealthily from the woods below the house. Slowly and deliberately he made his way toward the front till he reached a bench where he sat down under a tree to ruminate over the situation and inspect the feathered prize which he had lately acquired by certain, devious means known only to Uncle Billy. Wiping his forehead with his ragged sleeve and holding the bird up by its tied feet he regarded it with the eye of an expert, and ...

— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

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