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feathery example sentences
feathery
1. There was a shadow of a half-moon in the dove-gray, feathery lightning of the horizon
2. Light feathery clouds skittered across the sky obscuring the sun, then uncovering it rapidly
3. He reached for the inside of his jacket then, brought out his feathery hat, unfolded it and put it on his head all curled up, looking shoddy and wrecked, as if he had been carrying it in his pocket this whole time
4. “How come you’re not wearing leather and feathery hats and that kind of
5. His lips parted and, with a feathery touch, traced their way across her cheek to an earlobe
6. If Spring had passed, the approaches to her stone were clothed with deep yellow-green mosses and feathery fine ferns alongside
7. For Singer the taboo against people having sex with furry or feathery creatures is valid only to the extent that it requires the animal’s consent
8. He is being held by something invisible with feathery and hairy large arms
9. The whole question is feathery at the moment
10. ” Ken thought that to call it feathery was a magnificent understatement
11. It beat an insistent, feathery drumbeat upon the head and shoulders
12. and dropping the feathery debris on the floor
13. I was determined to pluck the feathery killer
14. I undid his harness and scratched his feathery head
15. Sinni trees grew to a height of seven stories, with trunks of bright green and natural swirling indentations, feathery purple flowers popping out of their trunks and yellow-green leaves
16. Yeltsa arched a thin, feathery eyebrow in surprise
17. Making warmth with her feathery hands
18. Robins will wear their feathery fire,
19. Toss in an unset emerald meadow strewn with diamond-dust, jillions of dewy facets shimmering in the sunshine, plus a feathery silhouette of trees to frame it all, and sound effects no CD can match—and all in all, this morning is one of those nirvanas of nature
20. Oh, how my shovel rang against the frozen stones! The feathery snow was scattered broadcast at each stroke
21. The weather has been very hot for a long time, but the rain in the morning had had a wonderful effect on my flowers, and as I drove away I could not help noticing how charming the borders in front of the house were looking, with their white hollyhocks, and white snapdragons, and fringe of feathery marigolds
22. From the center of the eyebrow to the outer edge, use the same kind of feathery strokes as before but this time tip them downward
23. He was searching the embattled menagerie for Fox when he hit into a brown feathery wall
24. " His finger dipped down to my chin and he kissed me, a fleeting, feathery kiss that was over too soon
25. The griffin recognised Indio and gave a soft cry as he threw his arms around Thrace’s feathery neck
26. her feathery mattress on the floor
27. Feathery antennae first rested on the top of
28. If the brush is only moderately full, such touches will not have any hard edges, but be of a light, feathery nature
29. There was a heap of old feathery wood-ashes on the hearth
30. As it passed, leaving Lucie frightened and bewildered in the doorway of the wood-sawyer's house, the feathery snow fell as quietly and lay as white and soft, as if it had never been
31. They overhung the archway, thrust themselves between the bars of the great gate with a sweet welcome to passers-by, and lined the avenue, winding through lemon trees and feathery palms up to the villa on the hill
32. Now Celeste slid out from underneath the feathery quilt and walked to the window overlooking the frozen lake
33. The inner door was opened violently and a scarlet beaked face, crested by a comb of feathery hair, thrust itself in
34. One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door
35. ” He laughs his feathery laugh
36. Somewhere out there the city burns, the sea breaks, barnacles beat their feathery arms
37. fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored grass
38. Into the sky, the feathery sky and the rabbit
39. The grass was up to their waists in the middle of the hollow, soft, tender, and feathery, spotted here and there among the trees with wild heart’s-ease
40. He took his hat off his hot head and lay propped on his elbow in the lush, feathery, woodland grass
41. lingered about the edges of the sky and fat feathery clouds were tinged with gold and palest green
42. In the feathery maelstrom he couldn’t tell whether he’d turned 180 degrees or 360, and his body, panicking, must have decided that the only way to prevent a hundred-foot drop was to bellyflop onto the tarpaper, because that’s where he ended up, face-down on the roof
43. With alternating flood and dry in that hot climate the plants grow very quickly to about the height of wheat, with feathery ears of rice on top of the stalks
44. Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
45. It grazed on low, feathery ferns with lavender underparts, which gave off a scent of mint when crushed
46. The feathery touch of a tentative feeler probing his eardrum set Timothy shivering
47. 9 Water Chestnut (Trapa natans) is aquatic, with diamond-shaped floating leaves and divided, feathery submerged ones, and small white flowers; widespread in fresh water in Eurasia
48. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime
49. The grass was up to their waists in the middle of the hollow, soft, tender, and feathery, spotted here and there among the trees with wild heart's-ease
50. Every little glade was overgrown with blackberry bushes and grey feathery reeds