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

Before eight days you will be in fine feather.

From The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death by De Leon, Solon

He was not in as fine feather as when, at the start, he had swung his brush across Flora’s nose—the pace had told on him—but he still moved with an air of confidence.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin

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

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

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