Sentence examples for feather of the from inspiring English sources

The several species have close thick feathers set loosely in the skin, lack the fifth secondary feather of the wing, and possess a crop.

Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).

Quetzalcóatl, Mayan name Kukulcán, (from Nahuatl quetzalli, "tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno]," and coatl, "snake"), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon.

There were a few minor eccentricities: a rather self-conscious man with a bonsai tree on his head was accompanied by a woman wearing the 10ft tail feather of the great auk.

It's a little like one of those fairy tales where the citizens of the kingdom pick their next king on the basis of a race to find the feather of the golden swan.

"Nestor Mytidis has really ruffled the feather of the Wales defence.

The dark feathers of the wing are edged dark blue.

Buff fringes on the contour feathers of the juveniles cause the striped pattern (ESAS pers. obs.).

The long, narrow feathers of the hindneck and sides of the neck are sparkling emerald green.

Feathers of the wing of Falco sparverius, showing transition of pattern according to successional taxology.

The feathers of the early juvenile, however, resembled the pennaceous feathers of the late juvenile only at the tip; the other end possessed a flat stem.