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Meanings of white feather in English

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Usage of white feather in English
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But when it came to the point, they showed the white feather.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
2
You are in hard when you show the white feather like that.
The Lever: A Novel
3
I have, like you, heard of the hex of the white feather.
The White Feather Hex
4
And yet he did hate most unmercifully to show the white feather.
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds; Or, Young Aviators in a Wrec...
5
Never show'd no white feather while thar was breath in his body.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
6
A filmy white feather from some passing bird dropped before my face.
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
7
They scuttle among the trees at one's approach, showing the white feather.
The Pleasures of Ignorance
8
She would not mope, and she would not show the white feather.
One Man in His Time
9
That story of Barker's finding a white feather was a curious one.
The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
10
Was it because she was afraid Roy might show the white feather?
The Sheriff's Son
11
Don't let them say of you that you show the white feather.
The Small House at Allington
12
The General on hearing of this further intended outrage, showed the white feather.
The Gambler
13
He gazed down at the small white feather in his hand.
The Extra Day
14
Never before had there been so shameful a display of the white feather.
Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
15
By no means; never saw a fellow show such a confounded white feather.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
16
To one agent, who was showing the white feather, he wrote:
The History of the Telephone
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White feather through the time
White feather across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common