例文・使い方で印象づける「feather」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク..."Good Sancho," quoth the wife, "don't look above yourself;I say, keep to the proverb that says, 'birds of a feather flock together... 
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...And his arms, still vigorous in spite of fatigue and suffering, closed roundMarguerite’s poor, weary body, and lifted her as gently as if she hadbeen a feather...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...I was too frightened of the Fan, and too nervous and uncertain of thestuff my other men were made of, to dare show the white feather at anythingthat turned up...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He was incapital feather...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...They adorn their heads with strange-looking feather caps, and their bodies with red paint, staining their teeth of the same colour...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Baraka also showed the white feather...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...We go to sea to-morrow, and it shall be our business, gentlemen, to bring her to book; and a fine feather in our caps it will be if we should be successful...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...A four-year-old, she was still a maiden—consequently had but a feather on her back in the Far and Near...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...“Though I think you’ll make me a willing bride to Farquhart if you show the white feather now...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...My latest news of thelyre-bird was of the surreptitious exportation of 200 skins to theLondon feather market...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...It must not be inferred that the friends of birds in England havebeen idle or silent in the presence of the London feather trade...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...I have never seen a moulted or dropped feather that was fitfor anything...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...No; the "ospreys" of the British feather market come fromslaughtered egrets and herons, killed in the breedingseason...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Hornaday has dealtfully with the feather and plumage traffic after it enters thebrokers' hands, and has proved conclusively that the plumes ofegrets are gathered from the freshly killed birds...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...This peculiar species has a long, slender, curved bill, blackish plumage, withwhite rump and bases of outer tail feather...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
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