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  • The workrooms were covered in swans-down from floor to ceiling and everyone was sneezing!

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • Marrying a goose does not assure one of a bed of swans-down.

    Supreme Personality Delmer Eugene Croft

  • Eileen Cavendish was busy in front of the glass, and half turned, holding a diminutive powder-box in one hand and a scrap of swans-down in the other.

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • She had some sort of scarlet pelisse with white swans-down about her neck, and she held the reins slack in her hands, while the pony wandered from side to side of the road as the fancy took him.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • She had some sort of scarlet pelisse with white swans-down about her neck, and she held the reins slack in her hands, while the pony wandered from side to side of the road as the fancy took him.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • She had some sort of scarlet pelisse with white swans-down about her neck, and she held the reins slack in her hands, while the pony wandered from side to side of the road as the fancy took him.

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • I was still dazzled by these many marvels when the purple hangings were raised and Miss Morgan appeared in a white _peignoir_ trimmed with swans-down.

    Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • Her slippers were white kid, her gloves had just a cream tint, and Miss Cynthia brought her own opera cloak, which was light brocaded silk, wadded and edged with swans-down.

    A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • As their chief spoke loudly, Marcus caught sight through the haze of snow which seemed to hold the darkness of night above, the head of a column of the foot soldiers making a steady advance, looking as if they were wearing a fresh form of decoration, every man's helmet plume being increased in size by a trimming of the purest, whitest swans-down or filmy, flocculent silver itself.

    Marcus: the Young Centurion George Manville Fenn 1870

  • She would have embarked in a noble barge, and lain upon couches of swans-down, and ample awnings of silk would have sheltered her from the sun, while the beautiful craft floated away down the river, its crimson hangings here and there just touching the rippling waters.

    Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

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