down-covered
Example Sentences
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That tiny, tiny scrap of down-covered flesh to be alive, to contain the miracle and mystery of life, and now to be struggling, all alone, with the miracle and mystery of death!
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Gales but serve thee for swifter flying, Foam crested waves with thy wings thou dost sweep, Wonderful dun-colored, down-covered body, Living thy life on the face of the deep!
From The California Birthday Book by Various
What actually decided me to commit so heinous a sin was a remark dropped by one of the peddlers that my down-covered face made me look like a "green one."
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham
The best down is got by robbing the down-covered nest, an inferior kind by plucking the dead birds.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
Their heads and necks were down-covered, instead of being naked like those of their parents.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
