Beyond it was a hill, green and
feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
"She's very sweet and
feathery," was all that Melissa thought, "but her talk sounds like ivy honey tastes.
From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal,
feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime.
This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles' walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first
feathery flakes of a snow-shower.
To confess the truth, she was rather tiresome with her mechanically learned lecture on fine metal work; and, while she was talking, I found myself idly stirring the soft
feathery white ashes backward and forward with my hand, pretending to listen, with my mind a hundred miles away from her.
Louise directed her attention to a hat -- Raoul's unlucky hat, which was set out in all its
feathery splendor upon the table.
There is no visible deck, even: nothing but a long, black, ugly roof covered with burnt-out
feathery sparks; above which tower two iron chimneys, and a hoarse escape valve, and a glass steerage-house.
'For that,' Mr Wegg inwardly decides, as he takes a corrective sniff or two, 'is musty, leathery,
feathery, cellary, gluey, gummy, and,' with another sniff, 'as it might be, strong of old pairs of bellows.'
The plantation stood dark against the fiery colors of sunrise, a black fringe having that feathery appearance which makes trees when they are bare the very reverse of rugged.
Walking a narrow path between the winding wall and the wild eastward bend and sweep of the gray and feathery trees, seeing shifting gleams of a lost sunset winking almost like lightning as the clouds of tempest scudded across the sky and mingling with the first faint blue light from a slowly strengthened moon behind him, he began to feel his head going round as his heels were going round and round the blind recurrent barrier.
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 (U) *** THERE is a whole lot of
feathery fun to be had in this animated sequel which brims with colourful energy, dashes of earthy adult humour and a breezy central message about loving thy neighbour.
Firefighters rescued the
feathery residents of a home during a blaze near Bridgnorth yesterday.
Chapman said the monochromatic palette "can be adapted to create a richly textured, shaded woodland border with a framework of Japanese maples,
feathery ferns and bold hosta, or a more traditional design of clipped boxwood hedges and architectural conifers."
Consider Amber Valletta's
feathery green jacket for the MET Gala.
He is also fabulous and
feathery...and very fond of waffles.
