feather nest

What’s more, in a votive offering, a bird was killed, dipped in hot resin and wrapped to form the mummy – yet some of the mummies found in the catacombs are fake, being little more than a feather, nest material or piece of eggshell.

I felt myself relax inside my feather nest of a coat and, settling in, I accidentally kicked my backpack, forgotten beside my feet, a couple steps down.

"Birds of a feather nest together," was one of the tart observations that fell upon her ears as she passed a group of women who only yesterday were fawning upon her.