As they drew near, the King, Atahualpa, covered with plumes of feathers and ornaments of gold and silver blazing in the sun, was carried forth on a throne followed by thirty thousand men to meet the strangers.
It was enough that under that gilded canopy and those ostrich plumes waved a ruddy blue flag, denoting that the pharaoh was present.
He was arrayed in robes interwoven with gold; in his thick beard were glass globulets from which issued perfumes, and he had fastened two plumes to his head.
The horses bearing ostrich plumes reared so that two men had to hold each of them.
The ends of this car were adorned with ostrich plumes and rams' heads, while above a costly baldachin towered an eagle, and there also was the ureus serpent, symbol of the pharaoh's dominion.
And this, and the landlady's marked deference to Evan, induced Mr. Raikes contemptuously to glance at our national blindness to the true diamond, and worship of the mere plumes in which a person is dressed.
Three mules abreast, with gayplumes in their heads, and a man with a monstrous wheelbarrow of ancient make, close up the rear.
Some were quite young, with their splendid crest of leafy plumes scarcely two feet above the ground; others stood up to a height of thirty or forty feet.
The horses are prouder and fresher than ever I see 'em; and toss their heads, they do, as if they knowed how much their plumes cost.
As only a few drooping plumes from the backs of the birds are taken, one can readily see what a terrific slaughter is required to meet the demands of the markets of the world.
The graceful plumes which they doubtless admire in each other have appealed to the vanity of the most destructive of all animals.
Shine bright blades of green; Rising, spreading, plumes of yellow O'er their sheaves are seen.
The emerald throat and the yellow velvet-plush head and the blue beak and the pink legs are as nothing, nothing whatever, compared to the glorious plumes which this Bird of Paradise has on each side of his body.
For the women whose hearts the little demon has frozen, wear these plumes in their hats and in their hair, and they are called "ospreys," and are very fashionable indeed.
But then they are thin, not broad like ribbons, and the plumes of the Great Bird of Paradise are so long that they are a good deal hidden by them, and, sometimes, hardly noticed amongst such a lot of finery.
But, then, if the poor hen bird has no glorious plumes of her own, she is always looking at them, always having them spread out on purpose for her to look at, and that must be very pleasant indeed.
The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the redbird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews.
This was the very fulness of the year, the earth giving out the sweetness of her maturity, the corn in martial ranks, with golden plumes nodding.
Virginia and Maude and the Colonel in the Carvel carriage, and behind Ned, on the box, is their luncheon in a hamper Standing up, the girls can just see the noddingplumes of the dragoons far to the front.
There we became acquainted with the rainbow-tinted plumesof the fly's wing and the jewels that lie hidden from ordinary ken in the pollen and petals of the simplest blossoms.
For Love is Lord of Truth and Loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust, In golden plumes up to the purest sky.
Then the minx should be stripped of borrowedplumes and turned out upon the world, even as Jane Shore was centuries ago.
For perhaps five seconds the planes roared straight ahead on an even keel, then Dave saw the exhaust plumes from Freddy's plane wink out, and the craft start turning around in a wide arc toward the north.
I'll do the same, and the exhaust plumes from our engines will show each of us where the other is so's we won't go bumping into each other.
Then out the corner of one eye he caught the flicker of twin exhaust plumes etched against the darkness of night.
Having thus settled the matter to her mind, Edith rode on, unmindful of the rain, which had partially subsided, but still dripped from her black plumes and glanced off from her velvet habit.
Who crowded the boats, and sprang into the water, men in old Spanish armor, with plumes and swords, and bearing a glittering cross?
Isis with the disk of the sun between two horns, or with a cow's head with the disk between the horns, or as a spotted cow with plumes and the sun's disk, or as a hawk with a female face and surmounted by the horns and the disk.
Accosted by a phantom, with wings folded pensively, plumes interlocked across its chest, he off head; and stood obsequiously before it.
Gayly arrayed in fine robes, with plumes on their heads, the bride and groom stood in the middle of a joyous throng, in readiness for the nuptial bond to be tied.
But the balsam-dropping palms, whose boles run milk, whose plumes wave boastful in the air, they perish in their prime, and bow their blasted trunks.
In the midst of materials, laces, among plumes and gewgaws, her whole being expanded and shone forth.
The gathering presents a brilliant spectacle variegated with lace and baubles, bright trimmings and pompons, tinged plumes and flowers in full bloom, curls of blond hair, tresses of dark hair and the glitter of diamonds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plumes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
