feather-pated

He himself knew how to wait, but did this modern young man, so feather-pated and scattery?

Swan Song 2004

“Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen,” said

Ivanhoe 2004

For all their feather-pated vulgarity and they are damned vulgar, I must say -- they're marvellous people; they do take the rough with the smooth; they're all 'doing their bit,' you know, and facing this particularly beastly world.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

For all their feather-pated vulgarity and they are damned vulgar, I must say -- they're marvellous people; they do take the rough with the smooth; they're all 'doing their bit,' you know, and facing this particularly beastly world.

Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

` ` Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, '' said Waldemar, ` ` who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. ''

Ivanhoe 1892

He liked the Colonel's service, because he had very little to do, and there were plenty of people in the house as idle and feather-pated as himself.

The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Urban returned a favorable answer, and with it a crown of peacock's feathers set in gold -- a more appropriate present than he intended for the feather-pated prince, who was then sixteen years of age, and who, having been knighted by his father, set off for Dublin, accompanied by a train of youths of his own age, whom the steadier heads of the good knight

Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

'If the boy, your brother, expected me to find husbands and dowers for a couple of wild, penniless, feather-pated damsels-errant, he expected far too much.

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"Grisell, Grisell, dost think I could turn to the feather-pated, dull-souled, fickle-hearted thing I know now Eleanor of Audley to be, instead of you?"

Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Look at our suite: our knights -- yea, our very grooms are picked for their comeliness; to wit that great feather-pated oaf of a Welshman, Owen Tudor there; while dames and demoiselles, tire-women and all, are as near akin as may be to Sir

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862