down-covered
Example Sentences
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Gales but serve thee for swifter flying, Foam crested waves with thy wings thou dost sweep, Wonderful dun-colored, down-covered body, Living thy life on the face of the deep!
From The California Birthday Book by Various
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)
For the first half-inch it proceeded soundly enough, a series of neat, over-lapping, down-covered scale-rings, then, for the next two-and-three-quarter inches it presented all the naked hideousness of an X-ray photograph.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
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
Their heads and necks were down-covered, instead of being naked like those of their parents.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
