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How to use feathery in a sentence

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The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
The practice in question is the growing of goldenrod, a tallish native weed with feathery yellow plumes.
By now reddish feathery streaks coloured sections of the blue sky, and more birds were homing towards their nests.
The A to Z of conservatory plants starts with the feathery yellow flowers of the acacia in bloom from December to March.
Colourful perennials such as the Flag irises in blue or yellow, Astilbe in feathery pinks and the faithful arum lilies are also suitable.
A line of huge, fresh cat's paw prints led from the waterside, over the sand to a pair of feathery scrape-marks like angels' wings in snow.
The XL is a powerful, pocket size light tipping the scales at a feathery 5 ounces.
From its surprisingly small feet spread white, feathery wings at its heels.
The sensation of sumptuous lips crushed against your own is every bit as euphoric as the indulgent delight of the feathery beginning.
The leaves of the three trees glow with a blurred, feathery effect that effuses light across the perfectly black sky.
The chirp and tweet of the feathery creatures greet one as one nears this market beyond Laad Bazar.
I felt the soft material against my back and the feathery soft pillow that supported my head.
Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown.
Very occasionally the mood changes and suddenly it come over all delicate, with an almost feathery touch.
The dress was trimmed on the cuffs and collar with soft, feathery, red fluff.
The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted.
With the unlooked for assistance of the Americainian Indians, the feathery hordes were eventually beaten back.
The stuccoed end facing the intersecting neighborhood street combines with feathery pennisetum grasses to soften the hard-edged look.
She stares down at the infant and reaches out to touch its fine, feathery black hair.
Picking up a small dandelion as they walked, Sara struggled to blow off all the flimsy, feathery seedlings.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The alga Polysiphonia violacea floats in long feathery tufts from the stakes.
In a few seconds the Synapta began to extrude its feathery gills, which had been partly retracted on disturbance.
The Tarai is low-lying, marshy land covered with tall, feathery grass, beautifully monotonous.
Where the stream plunges from above, the bulblet Bladder Fern drapes the steep banks with its long feathery fronds.
His footfall was a feathery thing that carried him like a shadow to the door.
Outside, the tall elm-tops were hardly to be seen through the feathery storm.
The spiraea was just putting out its long, feathery plumes of white, and the lilacs nodded white and purple in the breeze.
The Colonel drove his huge fist at the provision-bag, as though to beat the stiffnecked beans into a feathery yielding.
Their feathery plumes are admirably adapted for catching and utilising any stray golden grain which happens to pass that way.
The pappus in this genus is very short, and it is scaly rather than feathery.
The wisest knew that a piece of amber, when rubbed, will attract feathery substances.
Greek, pteron, a wing, the feathery fronds suggesting the wings of a bird.
Melissa had all a sound bee's hereditary hatred against the big, squeaking, feathery Thief of the Hives.
To his left lay the nest, a mass of feathery grass and mosses.
They were full of feathery softness and of sudden and spirited scratches.
Then it bursts into yellow bloom still finer, more feathery and lacelike.
The design shows a feathery effect, as in embroidery tambour.
In the robin's nest there were Eggs and the robin's mate sat upon them keeping them warm with her feathery little breast and careful wings.
Then it bursts into yellow bloom, still finer, more feathery and lacelike.
The stillness beat as before, like a thing with feathery wings.
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