down-covered

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For the first half-inch it proceeded soundly enough, a series of neat, over-lapping, down-covered scale-rings, then, for the next two-and-three-quarter inches it presented all the naked hideousness of an X-ray photograph.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas

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

Madeline was just twenty years of age, when, as the wife of Edward Leslie, she left this warm down-covered nest, and was borne to a new and more elegant home.

From Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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

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