Sentence examples for pluck feathers from inspiring English sources

In France, schoolchildren sing a nursery rhyme encouraging them to pluck feathers from a lark.

They see the chance to pluck feathers from an exceedingly plump goose.

To demand that Mo Yan also be a political dissident is not only what the Dutch describe as "trying to pluck feathers from a frog".

This animal is often held up as the ultimate GM horror, created so that farmers will be saved the effort of having to pluck feathers before poultry are sold to supermarkets.

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The fight generally involves one cock trying to pluck feathers from the other one with its beak or clawing their opposition's face, which was usually the target.

Picking them out can be as challenging as plucking feathers from drying concrete.

While he had sought out exotic birds in the past, he now plucks feathers from seemingly mundane animals like chickens.

Bad news, then, for anyone thinking of opening a theme park, but good news for the job prospects of anyone plucking feathers at an effects workshop.

Drummond was also seen plucking feathers from a dead swan.

In works like The Gatekeeper, The Scribe and The Messenger, Kusher's use of ritualistic postures and allegory-rich symbols like beating wings, plucked feathers, locks and keys, bones, wood pyres, human skulls and masks resonate in depths of our collective unconscious.