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Meanings of white feathers in English

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Usage of white feathers in English
1
Gently she fluttered about and ruffled the soft black and white feathers.
Stories of Birds
2
Three white feathers on each side of the tail, which is blackish.
Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
3
And yet she is only different by a tuft of white feathers.
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Gr...
4
I don't mean by this confession to cover myself with white feathers.
The new yorker
5
The flakes were huge and, like delicate white feathers, drifted lazily down.
Keeping christmas
6
There were white feathers in his helmet; on his shield three white wicket-gates.
The Forest Lovers
7
In the tail there are two white feathers, edged with greenish-black.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
8
And then came three little white feathers; and the world's at an end.
The Four Feathers
9
Their mother says that the raven babies will outgrow the white feathers soon.
Stories of Birds
10
The Duchess unfurled a fan of wavy white feathers and half sheltered him.
The Survivor
11
She opened her hand and gazed for a while at the white feathers.
The Four Feathers
12
A full-grown ostrich has only fourteen of the largest white feathers.
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
13
The grey sky was filled with little white feathers dancing down-down-down
Seven O'Clock Stories
14
It is jet black, dotted all over with small white feathers.
Wanderings in South America
15
And then come three little white feathers, and the world's at an end.
The Four Feathers
16
The starlight was not strong enough to illuminate the white feathers.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
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White feathers through the time
White feathers across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common