Sentence examples for off the feather from inspiring English sources

Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling, away from Jötunheimr and back to the court of the gods.

Freyja agrees, and says she would lend it to Thor even if it were made of silver or gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling.

The carcasses then go through the feather-picking machines, which are equipped with rubber "fingers" specifically designed to beat off the feathers.

Old Abe's other near miss occurred during the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 when a Confederate minie ball grazed his neck and chest, taking off the feathers in its path and damaging his left wing.

She took the bodies and washed them in a bath of boiling water, and moved them to a plucking machine that spun the bodies in a metal cylinder with black rubber nodules sticking out from the sides to rub off the feathers.

The latter species breaks off the feathers of its host and lives on the fats produced by growing plumage.

Plucking is where you pull off all of the feathers and gut it out and then you just cook it like a Thanksgiving turkey.

If you aim for the halfway point of the feather, you won't even be close to hurting the chicken but will take enough of the feather off to make it difficult for the chicken to fly.

Mr. Castro, displeased with the reception at the Shelburne, the hotel that would later auction off the chicken feathers, was greeted by courteous crowds in Harlem.

Mogul Style is atavistic, a way of showing off the peacock feathers to inspire awe in other moguls, said Richard Conniff, a nature writer and the author of the forthcoming book "The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide" (W. W. Norton, 2002).

The network has trotted out stars of its other series spouting the line in promotions and placed the show's title on its latest on-screen invention: a "sweeper" at the bottom of the screen that stays on the air briefly until swept off by the feathers of the NBC peacock.