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But an if the blade behind the heart is still unplumed for flying, and only gentle flax or fur blows out on the wind, instead of beating it, does the owner of four legs sit and sulk, like a man defrauded of his merits?

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

They have cold, withered eyes before which every bird is unplumed.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Her helmet was a simple, unplumed Illyrian war-cap; her grandmother, Audata, had worn it on the border.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

No doubt they see a great deal in each other's faces that we cannot, -- changes of color and expression as real as our own, blushes and sudden betrayals of feeling, -- just as these two canaries know what their single notes and short sentences and full song with this or that variation mean, though it is a mystery to us unplumed mortals.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

They have cold, withered eyes before which every bird is unplumed.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

There was no long line of coaches, and no display of magnificence this time -- only a quiet, slow-moving procession following the unplumed hearse.

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

They have cold, withered eyes before which every bird is unplumed.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

But an if the blade behind the heart is still unplumed for flying, and only gentle flax or fur blows out on the wind, instead of beating it, does the owner of four legs sit and sulk, like a man defrauded of his merits?

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

Flameless -- motionless -- hurtless -- the fine arrow; unplumed, unpoisoned, and unbarbed; aimless -- shall we say also, readers young and old, travelling or abiding?

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

The color of the former is dark brownish-black; the unplumed head and throat are red; the throat is full of wrinkles and warts.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853