He arranged a square of twenty warriors around him--one with tomahawk to the left, another with tomahawk to the right of him, and a straggling, painted and feathered queue bringing up the rear.
If he had not been close to Smith how could his collection include Powhatan's discarded robe, Indian combs, rattles, bows and arrows, feathered crowns and tobacco pipes?
The silent wood No more with noisy hum of insect rings; And all the feathered tribes, by gentle sleep subdued, Roost in the glade and hang their drooping wings.
As the jungle is exceedingly populous of thesefeathered specialists, it follows that the early morning chorus is wonderful.
The writer evidently must have had in mind as a criterion some of our own or the English great feathered soloists.
Another feathered pedagogue was continually warning us to go slow; very good advice near an African jungle.
If they had taken a fancy to settle on us they must have smothered us under a feathered avalanche.
Under any of these names the green-feathered morsel is excellent eating when broiled or fried.
In most countries the shafts are feathered at the bow-string end, and such was the case in the earliest historical times.
All of this we learned from a Spanish soldier who ventured out, feathered and painted like an Indian.
Teligny outlined against the sky, erect and soldierly, hisfeathered beaver hat raised above his head in salute.
It had barely reached the foot of the tree when the feathered thunderbolt out of the sky fell upon it, clutching it securely with both talons about a foot behind the head.
Just as he was crawling luxuriously into his den, one of those great horned owls which are the feathered Apaches of the wilderness came winnowing low overhead on wings as silent as sleep.
These birds are the least elegant, both in form and color, of any of our feathered neighbors.
In this way the feathered kingdom may soon be conquered.
The cerulean tint seems much rarer among the feathered tribes there than here.
If the bird could give us the finishing strain of which this seems only the prelude, it would stand first among feathered songsters.
I am aware it is the fashion for travellers to assert that our feathered tribes are either mute, or give utterance to discordant cries that pierce the ear, and disgust rather than please.
These, with some other feathered mites, Katy cooked, while Aleck and Tug finished the packing.
Creeping around to the rear side of the rock, he climbed slowly up until he could peer over the edge, and found himself not more than a dozen feet away from the little feathered group sitting by the chimney-top.
The others readily agreed to this proposal and were soon busy trying to scheme out some means to take their feathered prey alive.
Good," approved Charley, as he surveyed thefeathered heap.
They were wellfeathered and of a yellowish-green cast, the short tails being tipped with yellow.
Surely a record of good deeds to match the excellence of appearance of this feathered gem.
But I never saw higher skill in a feathered artist.
After the young were feathered enough to leave the nest, which occurred when they were two weeks old, the male forgot to sing and became a veritable family drudge with the brood ever at his heels clamoring for food.
Manoel and Benito had gone shooting in the neighborhood, and brought back some feathered game, which was well received in the larder.
Evidently great numbers of the feathered tribes were moving about, either because they meant to retire at dissipatedly late, or had risen at unreasonably early, hours.
Everywhere the feathered tribes first gazed at him in mute surprise; then hurried, with every variety of squeak, and quack, and fluttering wing, from his frightful presence.
All the well feathered parts, underneath the feathers are covered by a very thick black down.
Professor Owen has shown that Megalapteryx huttoni was feathered down to the toes, and in the plate I have represented it clothed with feathers similar to the Clutha ones, which I believe belong to this species.
Then the Young Prince arose, and took his bow and his heavenly-feathered arrows, and he let fly an arrow into the branches of the cassia tree.
Shall it be a golden fan, or a roll of silk, or a new obi of red brocade, or a great battledore with images upon it and many light-feathered shuttlecocks?
But the heavenly-feathered arrow took wing and pierced the floor of Heaven, and reached the high place, where sat the Sun Goddess, together with her August Counsellors, in the Tranquil River Bed of Heaven.
By way of this bridge came the deities from heaven to earth, bearing their jewelled spears, their great bows and heavenly-feathered arrows, their wonder robes and their magic mirrors.
Thou mayest take my great bow and all my heavenly-feathered arrows and try the mountains, where, trust me, thou shalt see many strange and beautiful things, unknown to thee before.
And sure enough there they are, a battledore of the best, and twenty shuttlecocks, meetly feathered and gilded.
So the Young Prince bound on his sandals, and they brought to him the great bow that stands in the Hall of High Heaven, and bestowed it upon him, and they gave him many heavenly-feathered arrows.
But Prince Fire Fade was a hunter, who got his luck upon the mountains and in the forest, who bound sandals fast upon his feet, and bore a bow and heavenly-feathered arrows.
And all day he hunted, and let fly the heavenly-feathered arrows; but rough of hair or soft of hair, never a thing did he catch.
Under the oil-cloth of his basket was a feathered fowl, and Thomasine was informed there would be a good supper for her that evening.
When Champlain and Frontenac met thefeathered chieftains of the St. Lawrence, they talked with men of the Stone Age face to face.
This rather rare representative of the featheredtribe is found occasionally on grassy plains surrounding the western end of the Organ Mountains of Pinar del Rio.
One of the most beautiful birds of Cuba is the little tody, which, with the exception of humming birds that are also very plentiful, is the smallest of the featheredinhabitants of the Island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feathered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
