Sentence examples for feathers of young from inspiring English sources

Without them, the birds risk succumbing to rain, cold, disease, and even death which is why researchers are concerned about the recent reappearance of a rare disorder causing the feathers of young penguins to fall out.

And the king of mind games may yet have a few tricks up his sleeve to ruffle the feathers of the young pretenders.

Robert Graves, in his own war memoir, Goodbye to All That (1929), describes women handing out white feathers to young men suspected of being malingerers.

The Order of the White Feather, founded in August 1914 by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, encouraged women to give out white feathers to young men who had not joined the British army.

So Peggy's got to not only look out for her own interests and navigate through SCDP's sometimes inhospitable waters, she also has to make sure she doesn't ruffle the feathers of Don's young bride.

The development of the remiges (and alulae) of nestling hoatzins is much delayed compared to the development of these feathers in other young birds, presumably because young hoatzins are equipped with claws on their first two digits.

Feathers tells the story of a group of young black boys who attend an unconventional school, nicknamed The Mill.

Mesoptile feathering of half-grown young is distinctly barred.

Infection with the virus, which is mainly transmitted through contaminated feathers, has been shown to trigger apoptosis in thymocytes and myeloid progenitor cells of young chicken.

Large flight feathers are found on the wings and tail, contour feathers cover the bird's surface and fine down occurs on young birds and under the contour feathers of water birds.

Mitchell claims that he was ousted because he ruffled the feathers of elderly Anglo women on the vestry by attracting minorities and young gays to the parish.