plume-plucked

“And then these jingling jays with plume-plucked wings,”

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892

“Ye failed not nor abased your plume-plucked wings;”

Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III

“And plume-plucked gaol-birds for thy starveling peers”

Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III

“Whose hand may curb or clip thy plume-plucked wings?”

A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems

“Shall shrink and subside and praise thee: and wisdom, with plume-plucked wings,”

Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III

“I really want us to date, if only so we can break up and I can call him a spleeny swag-bellied ratsbane and a fobbing plume-plucked hedge-pig, and he can respond by shouting "Fie on thee, poxy harlot!" and then writing "You Can't Do That.”

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“Well, then, the hour was drawing nigh when we had to present ourselves before that company of men of genius, each with his own crow; and I was still unprovided; and yet I thought it would be stupid to fail of such a madcap bagatelle; [3] but what particularly weighed upon my mind was that I did not choose to lend the light of my countenance in that illustrious sphere to some miserable plume-plucked scarecrow.”

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

“Well, then, the hour was drawing nigh when we had to present ourselves before that company of men of genius, each with his own crow; and I was still unprovided; and yet I thought it would be stupid to fail of such a madcap bagatelle; 3 but what particularly weighed upon my mind was that I did not choose to lend the light of my countenance in that illustrious sphere to some miserable plume-plucked scarecrow.”

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