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

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

She can teach them lots of good things and they can be handed back to you in fine feather when your time is yours to enjoy again.”

From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

The train came in, and at once the juniors crowded en masse round the carriage in which Acton had secured a corner seat, and stood talking to Grim, who was in fine feather.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick

And I shall never forget the reluctantly admiring shake of the head with which he acknowledged that it was indeed a "very fine feather!"

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward