Sentence examples for feather mantle from inspiring English sources

The star garment of the Persian king symbolized his world rulership, as did the feather mantle of the kings of Hawaii.

In Feather Mantle a fisherman finds a feather robe that belongs to an angel; he only agrees to return it to her when she performs a celestial dance for him.

Feather Mantle is slightly more varied, and the presence of a dancer (Nora Kimball-Mentzos) does give one more layer to Peter Sellars' otherwise inert staging, but emotionally and dramatically both halves of the opera remain almost perversely unengaging, despite the excellence of the performances from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and bass Davone Tines under conductor André de Ridder.

One of the Noh plays Saariaho and Sellars used, "Hagoromo" (The Feather Mantle), concerns a fisherman who steals an angel's wings.

Cortés loved the idea of the featherworker and his son making a small demonstration of their art in court he himself had a spectacular feather mantle on his bed at his house in Coyoacán showing the birth of water in springs and its death as rain and he immediately gave Huanitzin favored status among his entourage.

This huge city, now largely destroyed, once housed 100,000 persons and produced a spectacular array of artistic works: gold jewelry, feather mantles, great textiles, and considerable work in wood and clay.

A handful of examples: an 800-year-old Peruvian, feather-patterned woolen mantle as fetching as any modern designer shawl, at Gail Martin Gallery; a Balinese silk ikat-weave woman's shoulder or breast cloth, from the late 19th or early 20th century, at Apsara Arts of Asia; and a 19th-century hand-stitched woman's tunic, from Bhutan, at Thomas Mond Carpets and Textiles.

The scapulars and mantle feathers are dark chestnut-brown with dark central streaks and pale tips.

Juveniles differ from adults in their black bill and legs, "scaly" appearing wings, and mantle with dark feather tips, dark carpal wing bar, and short tail streamers.

Subject: The "bride" who dons a mantle of red feathers is often understood to represent Ernst's lover, the British surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (born 1917).

A vulture scrotum poking out of a mantle of filthy feathers affixed to a two-foot-long pair of rusted old scissors?