fine feather

Example Sentences

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Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old fellow was in fine feather and full of jokes.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

She can teach them lots of good things and they can be handed back to you in fine feather when your time is yours to enjoy again.”

From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Lenka went into her bedroom and there, instead of her few rags on the floor, was a fine feather bed and coverlets and a painted chest full of clothes.

From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Fillmore, Parker

And when the cavalier turned round as the trees swallowed him, and waved his hat, with its fine feather, in the golden light, Miss Fanny murmured—"Really, I think—Ralph—has very much—improved!"

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten