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
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
Upon his thick, extremely fair peruke he had stuck a tall hat with a fine feather.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
Why, that seems reasonable," said I. "It are," nodded the man, "and a fine feather bed too!
From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery
We go to sea to-morrow, and it shall be our business, gentlemen, to bring her to book; and a fine feather in our caps it will be if we should be successful.”
From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by Mays, D.L.
