fine feather
Example Sentences
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Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I see that you're in fine feather this morning," he said, "I'll open it for you."
From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
Upon his thick, extremely fair peruke he had stuck a tall hat with a fine feather.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
However, the latter had lived awhile in Russia, and knew that the person referred to as an "uchitel" is never looked upon as a bird of fine feather.
From The Gambler by Hogarth, C. J.
And when the cavalier turned round as the trees swallowed him, and waved his hat, with its fine feather, in the golden light, Miss Fanny murmured—"Really, I think—Ralph—has very much—improved!"
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten
