...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」
...The falcon had beaten down his prey in the inclosure belonging to this little chapel, and the king was desirous of going in to take the first feather, according to custom...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...A jaunty little feather of water curled in front of it, and as it lifted it showed a long ladder of Roman numerals—XV...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...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」
...You could have knocked me downwith a feather...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He was incapital feather...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...The crown is a feather very similar to that of the sugar-cane; the blossom falls, and the feather becomes a head of dhurra, weighing about two pounds...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The cock skips from side toside with a feather in his bill, and the hen is pleased: nature is fullof enjoyment...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The mass of new information that we have recently secured onthis traffic from the headquarters of the feather trade isappalling...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...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」
...I have never seen a moulted or dropped feather that was fitfor anything...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Beyond all question, the feather merchants of London, Paris andBerlin absolutely control the bird-killers of Venezuela, China, NewGuinea...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...If no feather can be seen and if it has been stormy, brush the snow away, the lard is not as white as the snow and is easily found...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Fox Trapping」
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