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Significados de borrowed plumes em inglês

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Uso de borrowed plumes em inglês
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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
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The royal visit over, our borrowed plumes were returned.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
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I could not rely much upon my borrowed plumes, should speech be required from me.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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She had been detected in her borrowed plumes.
The Mountebank
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Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources
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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
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And Lawrence on the journey neither spoke to her nor watched her, though Isabel shone in borrowed plumes.
Nightfall
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That evening, when we started for the schoolhouse, Sara Ray was among us, decked out in borrowed plumes.
The Story Girl
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But these are borrowed plumes.
In the Amazon Jungle / Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper A...
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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
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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
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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
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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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