plumeless

• “He dropped his plumeless hat and combed his hair back with his hands.”

  Destiny's Road

• “The German author Kotzebue attended the “most imposing spectacle” of a parade on the Place Carrousel; he noticed the deliberate contrast between Napoleon and his staff: “… he made his appearance surrounded by generals and aides-de-camp in magnificent uniforms, but Bonaparte himself wore only a very simple, unembroidered uniform with a plain, plumeless hat.””

  Simon & Schuster: THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON

• “This plucked and plumeless bird, comic and forlorn, is the butt of all the philosophies.”

  A Miscellany of Men

• “Thrilling the unweaponed crowd with plumeless heads?”

  ON THE POWER OF SOUND

• “Our own day has doubtless brought forth critics and students of else unparalleled capacity for the task of laying wind-eggs in mare's nests, and wasting all the warmth of their brains and tongues in the hopeful endeavour to hatch them: but so fine a specimen was never dropped yet as this of the plumed or plumeless biped who discovered that if”

  A Study of Shakespeare

• “Poor plumeless ephemerals, comfortless mortals, as visions of creatures fast fleeing,”

  Studies in Song

• “In the entry he paused to think, then hurried up the stairs, seized his plumeless cap, and rushed out of doors.”

  The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01

• “Two angels of the Judgment -- gigantic figures, with the plumeless wings that Signorelli loves -- are seen upon the clouds.”

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III

• “BABBALANJA -- No, your Highness; but like eagles, his thoughts were first callow; yet, born plumeless, they came to soar.”

  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

• “Aymer still on the selle, but motionless, and his helm battered and plumeless, his brand broken, his arm drooping.”

  The Last of the Barons — Volume 05

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