Sentence examples for on each feather from inspiring English sources

Children at the cathedral school collect the feathers, and church legend says the black circle on each feather tip symbolizes the ever-watchful eye of God.

In many birds each contour feather on the body (but rarely on the wings) is provided with a complex branch, the aftershaft, or afterfeather, that arises at the base of the vane.

Once we captured a thrush, we measured the length of each primary feather on its left wing and its tarso-metatarsus length to the nearest 0.1 mm with dial calipers, its unflattened folded wing length to the nearest 1 mm with a wing rule, and its mass to the nearest 0.1 g with a spring scale.

Elsewhere, two brothers risk concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows.

Birds in more than 40 non-passerine families seem to be missing the fifth secondary feather on each wing, a state known as diastataxis.

And so, at last, the blade is on the feather.

"[I]f you rodeo, you're a rooster on Tuesday, feather duster on Wednesday," Hondo's boss tells Diamond.

1973: sleeping on a feather bed in a farmhouse, in Böchingen, Germany, with Erich Ziller.

So, for the next few weeks, I tried to keep an eye on Mr. Feather.

Though you might fall As easily as on a feather bed, It is a sad farewell.

I decided that I had better just drop in on Mr. Feather.