down-covered
Example Sentences
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Only those persons who were close to the king wore the down-filled or down-covered net caps and feather plumes on their heads.
From Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 by Heizer, Robert F.
Their heads and necks were down-covered, instead of being naked like those of their parents.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
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
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
