pin-feathers

Remove the pin-feathers from a young onion and chop it up fine, add water, stir gently and add more water.

The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott

But they suspect pin-feathers and bristles, whether the latter grow or not; and, after doing their best to spoil you, they suddenly demand the utmost propriety of behavior.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

If I see any signs of angel pin-feathers cropping out I'll shave 'em.

Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

"I have no doubt he's an angel with pin-feathers sprouting all over him," retorted Dad.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

Pots were crudely manufactured by mixing clay with heavy-spar that had been roasted and powdered fine, -- called "k [= e] tik," blood from a seal being added and sometimes the pin-feathers from a bird.

Short Sketches from Oldest America

I've never known a man to borrow any money of the bank on the unctuosity of his amen, but I have known people who could double-discount Satan himself at dodging an honest debt, to weep real water because I declined to come into their sectarian penfold and be measured for a suit of angelic pin-feathers.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

So long as the small fowls make me melody, I have never cared to know the color of their pin-feathers.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

How would you like to eat a chicken boiled with its pin-feathers on, or find a colony of red ants in your soup?

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

Our shack and the bunk-house and stables and hay-stacks tore a few pin-feathers off its breast, though; and those few feathers are drifts higher than my head, heaped up against each and all of the buildings.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

From its present defiant attitude in a cooked form we figured it had pipped the shell with a burglar's jimmy and joined the Dominecker Kid's gang before it shed its pin-feathers.

From Place to Place 1910