Sentence examples for a feather of from inspiring English sources

She wields a rattail comb with mechanical rapidity, separating the hair into sections no thicker than a feather of eyelash.

Sangakkara sweeps for a couple then cuts for another, but then Thirimanne sends a feather of a bottom edge through to Dhoni.

It was a time when you didn't meet the Professor of Adventure, Millican Dalton, on a cute sepia postcard in Keswick but in person, pottering along with his groceries from Plaskett's store in Rosthwaite to his cave at Castle Crag where a feather of woodsmoke announced that he was in residence.

To the left of the inscription, part of a feather of a Wepwawet standard is visible.

A feather of the Paris skin was given to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the only confirmed feather belonging to this subspecies currently in Australia.

For this to happen, the deceased had to be judged worthy in a trial, in which the heart was weighed against a "feather of truth".

God forbid there's a tiny tuft of a feather on a piece of chicken".

We examined the expression profiles of genes associated with the development of feather structure and compared the gene expression patterns in different types of feathers and different portions of a feather to advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of feather growth and the molecular basis of variation in feather structure.

We live in a birds-of-a-feather type of country.

Up (or down) late Uncle Sam goes shopping On a knife-edge Birds of a feather Lazarus of the East?

A contour feather of an adult bird tends to be almost bilaterally symmetrical.