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Meanings of borrowed plumes in English

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Usage of borrowed plumes in English
1
He was represented, in a hundred pamphlets, as the daw in borrowed plumes.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
2
SHAKSPEARE'S assumption of borrowed plumes is of course the classic example.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917
3
In those borrowed plumes you look undistinguished and underfed.
Kimono
4
The royal visit over, our borrowed plumes were returned.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
5
I could not rely much upon my borrowed plumes, should speech be required from me.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
6
She had been detected in her borrowed plumes.
The Mountebank
7
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources
8
Upon my word, young gentleman, you look vastly comfortable and vastly well, too, in your borrowed plumes.
The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron
9
And Lawrence on the journey neither spoke to her nor watched her, though Isabel shone in borrowed plumes.
Nightfall
10
That evening, when we started for the schoolhouse, Sara Ray was among us, decked out in borrowed plumes.
The Story Girl
11
But these are borrowed plumes.
In the Amazon Jungle / Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper A...
12
No, you may tell them that borrowed plumes won't always serve, and there are things that can't be done by deputy.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
13
The borrowed plumes, the delegated authority of so many of his equals, raise him to a half-admitted equality with an English nobleman.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
14
This Lady Livia, haughtiest and most fastidious of our younger great dames, had become the indulgent critic of the tramp's borrowed plumes!
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
15
As Mr Phillott observed, the captain's epaulettes had made him a mark for the enemy, and he had fallen in his borrowed plumes.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
16
As Mr Phillott observed, the captain's epaulets had made him a mark for the enemy, and he had fallen in his borrowed plumes.
Peter Simple
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