scatter the feathers! This is better than shooting at a turkey’s head and neck, old fellow.”
and when man wanted their flesh, their skins, or their feathers, there’s the place to seek them.
'Didn't you hear me say "
Feather"?' the Sheep cried angrily, taking up quite a bunch of needles.
Iwanich put the fox's hairs with the scale and the
feather, and as it was getting dark he hastened home with his horses.
The little cabarets and sutlers' shops along the bay resounded with the scraping of fiddles, with snatches of old French songs, with Indian whoops and yells, while every plumed and
feathered vagabond had his troop of loving cousins and comrades at his heels.
And Cocky, only a few ounces in weight, less than half a pound, a tiny framework of fragile bone covered with a handful of
feathers and incasing a heart that was as big in pluck as any heart on the Mary Turner, became almost immediately Michael's friend and comrade, as well as ruler.
You've lost a lot of
feathers, and one of your eyes is nearly pecked out, and your comb is bleeding!"
The man with the
feathers went up to the stone, stooped, slipped his hands under the face lying upon the ground, stiffened his Herculean muscles, and without a strain, with a slow motion, like that of a machine, he lifted the end of the rock a foot from the ground.
She took care to do everything according to the old woman's bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the
feathers flew about like so many snowflakes.
The party went to the theater, where they saw a play acted by foxes dressed in costumes of brilliantly colored
feathers. The play was about a fox-girl who was stolen by some wicked wolves and carried to their cave; and just as they were about to kill her and eat her a company of fox-soldiers marched up, saved the girl, and put all the wicked wolves to death.
The turbit has a very short and conical beak, with a line of reversed
feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually expanding slightly the upper part of the oesophagus.
"I am laughing because, in preening my
feathers, I tickled myself under the wings."