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  • She spoke with waxing excitement; every motherly pin-feather was erect.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • The _bipes implumis_, on the contrary, was hatched nude, without even the embryo of a pin-feather.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • The last pin-feather of the new winter plumage has burst its sheath, and is sleek and glistening from its thorough oiling with waterproof dressing, which the birds squeeze out with their bills from a special gland, and which they rub into every part of their plumage.

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

  • It was not a pleasant story, and my efforts to picture the scene gave me rather a bristly feeling along the pin-feather area of my anatomy.

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Instantly two heads came up, fuzzy gray heads, with black pointed beaks, and beautiful hazel eyes, and a funny long pin-feather over each ear, which made them look like little wise old clerks just waked up.

    Wilderness Ways William Joseph Long 1909

  • But he had the good taste to stay away on my days, and I never saw as much as a pin-feather of him.

    The Motormaniacs Lloyd Osbourne 1907

  • 'An' the pin-feather party exhibits a bullet wound in his left fore-arm, the same bein 'about half healed.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Dave alarmin 'us by becomin' melodious, furtive -- melody bein 'wholly onnacheral to Dave, that a-way -- thar's a callow pin-feather party comes caperin' in an 'takin' Old Man Enright one side, asks can he yootilise

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • See yere! 'goes on the pin-feather party, beginnin' to roll up his sleeve, 'you-all impresses me as more or less a jedge of casyooalities.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • You could have knocked me down with a pin-feather, as it were, I was so smut and dumb-foundered.

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

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