Faith, it was like to have succeeded with them, and I make sure mine enemy, whoever he may be, is pluming himself even now upon the world well rid of my cumbersome existence.
A minute ago I would have knelt before her and humbled myself to the very dust: when I reached the door of the drinking-room I was already pluming myself upon a resolution to be merciful.
But he had five thousand pounds at stake, a fortune on which he had been pluming himself since noon; it was no time for hesitation.
As the hawk was pluming the pigeon on the ground, the dog came romping along.
Was pluming it, when heifers came right up to her.
A freshly-killed pigeon, or part of one, should be smuggled under the hawk's foot as she is pluming the dead rook or gull.
Hawks, while pluming their quarry, keep a firm hold of it with the inner talon of one foot, and often of both.
She will busy herself first in spreading her feathers to the sun and wind, and then in pluming and arranging them--a work exceedingly agreeable to those hawks which are particular about their own appearance.
It has a grating, discordant cry, which it utters at intervals as it sits pluming its black feathers above the pool.
The brilliant kingfisher, resplendent in crimson and emerald, sat on the withered branch of a prostrate mango-tree close by, pluming his feathers and doubtless meditating on the vanity of life.
Birds, such as he had never seen before, sang in the bushes, and fowls of many kinds, before unknown, were pluming themselves in the warm sun on the shores of the lake.
The waters of the Great Salt Lake broke into small waves upon its shores, which were covered with seals sporting, and wild ducks pluming themselves, in the beams of the warm and gentle sun.
Falarique--set Gallically pluming and crowing out of an Alsace-Lorraine growl--were clever.
I make no doubt she has made the best of her way back to the hospitable Hall of Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn; and may very possibly, at this present writing, be pluming her wings among the breezy bowers of Wynnstay.
While pluming myself upon an exalted standard of sensibility and sentiment, I rather basely spared myself acquaintance with that, both in nature and in art, which might cause me distress or disturbance of thought.
So, while pluming himself on his clear judgment and unswerving reason, he resented, most unreasonably, her birth, since it took his wife from him.
When I take to glorying in my shame, pluming myself upon my abnormality, then, indeed, I become beyond all example loathsome.
The Scotch Spaniard, I saw, was pluming himself on his skill, but Transom was up to him, for in an instant he dropped out of it, while in slipping through he let it fall over a broken limb of the tree.
The serious energy of the best humanity, instead of pluming itself in the seductive contemplation of aesthetic beauty, seems rather to be celebrating the apotheosis of dirt.
Of this appetite for social tittle-tattle, the wealthy class seems disposed to take every advantage, pluming itself on its new importance to the point where it is constantly trying to devise some new extravagance or inanity.
Yet he must take the risk, and there was his sentinel bird still pluming itself in brilliant colors on its waving bough.
On the whole, Aunt Maria, hearing on all sides flattering things of Mrs. Henderson's lovely house and charming evenings, was pluming herself visibly in this manner.
Birds, such as he had never seen before, sang in the bushes, and fowl of many kinds were pluming themselves in the warm sun on the shores of the lake.
The waters of the Great Salt Lake broke in small waves upon its shores, which were covered with sporting seals and wild ducks pluming themselves in the beams of the warm and gentle sun.
Later, as she and Jack sat discussing the situation with a zest which left no phase of it untouched, he said teasingly, "You needn't be pluming yourself complacently over all those compliments.
Below were tassels, tufts, and pointlets, all in triple order, plumingover one another in a pile of beauty.
It turned on Ovington's offer, which Arthur, pluming himself on his success and proud of his prospects, had lost no time in conveying to his mother.
And men also, I hasten to add, that there may be no pluming of male feathers--if indeed this be an occasion for pluming on either side.
Further, that pluming one's self on knowledge is a sure proof of ignorance.
Of all the forms self-conceit may assume none is more foolish or detrimental, especially to a woman-poet, than the pluming of oneself as the harbinger of some renovating gospel, some panacea for human infirmities.
I knew she lay above me, Where the casement all the night Shone, softened with a phosphor glow Of sympathetic light, And that her fledgling spirit pure Was pluming fast for flight.
After a considerable number of dips it alighted on a twig near at hand, and commenced pluming its feathers.
Mr Gould describes one he saw perched on a twig, pluming its feathers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pluming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
