Significats de ruffled plumage en anglès

Lady Kirkbank had considerable difficulty in smoothing Lesbia's ruffled plumage.

So follow your mother to your room, smooth your ruffled plumage and come down to supper.

See how she smooths down its ruffled plumage, and, hark ye, listen to its plaintive cooing!

He piled his trophies-allthe delicate ruffled plumage of summer's prime-onthe kitchen table, draggled and bloody.

She's gone to smooth her ruffled plumage.

Come and smooth her ruffled plumage, Mac.

You smooth its ruffled plumage.

Shrouded in all these wraps, it struck one that she was no larger than an ailing bird, panting amidst its ruffled plumage.

He peered at himself and seemed to rearrange his countenance, much as a woman would smooth the ruffled plumage of her hat.

Trembling he reached out the index finger of his right hand to the pigeon and let it rest lightly on the ruffled plumage.

But Mrs. Downey was proud of that too, as arguing that the poor bird of passage had stayed to smooth her ruffled plumage.

The last we saw of the young scapegrace he was smoothing his ruffled plumage before a shining milk-pail and apparently admonishing his unsteady double.

"Shall I go ashore first, and smooth down their ruffled plumage?"

"Now you're talkin'," said Mrs. Barton, smoothing her ruffled plumage.