Sentence examples for soft feather from inspiring English sources

The black square tail is 4.8 cm (1.9 in) long, and the soft feather shafts project beyond the barbed section.

Participants are advised to use only soft, feather-free pillows to swing lightly at one another, avoiding those without pillows or with cameras and to remove eyeglasses or sunglasses before combat.

The latter may contain the small soft feathers called down.

They have brighter plumage and less-raptorial bills than true shrikes, and they have long soft feathers on the rump.

"They had to be raised on the waterfront so they could have soft feathers that were sold for pillows".

All parrots possess a cere, an area of soft skin surrounding the nostrils; it may be bare or covered with small, soft feathers.

Their soft feathers, which allow for silent flight, are not waterproof like other birds and so they are particularly vulnerable to wet weather.

He held the dead bird tenderly in his palm, ran his fingers through its soft feathers and explained in great detail the cuckoo's fascinating toe structure.

The ducks, whose soft feathers were valued, thrived on the island's waterways, and Long Island duckling became a staple in fine restaurants.

-- "Valley" The Ecstasy was beginning to wear off, but it wasn't crash-y at all, it was like floating down into soft feathers.

How brightly you whistle, pushing the long soft feathers on your rump down across the branch, like the apron of a butcher, as you impale a cricket on a meat hook deep inside my rhododendron.