wing-feather

Did she not know that San Michele lost a wing-feather in the fight, and that it was found in Caltanisetta?

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

"Does your friend, Mr. Phoby Geen, wear a peewit's wing-feather in his hat?"

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

He was once cast upon an island, where he abode a long while and returning thence to his native country, brought with him the quill of the wing-feather of a young roe, whilst yet unhatched and in the egg; and this quill was big enough to hold a skinful of water, for it is said that the length of the young roe's wing, when it comes forth of the egg, is a thousand fathoms.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

For example, the largest wing-feather or tail-feather of this Sparrow is quite like the one I pulled out of its back in texture, only the back-feather is smaller and not so stiff.

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Every primary wing-feather, in the fine flyers, is thus twisted; and is best described as a sail striking with the power of a cimeter, but with the flat instead of the edge.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

But the best pattern of all is tied from the mottled wing-feather of an Indian bustard; generally used, when it can be obtained, only for salmon flies.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

The wing-bars in the true rock-pigeon and in the chequered variety are, in fact, due to similar though larger spots symmetrically crossing the secondary wing-feather and the larger coverts.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

A hen from the white Game, which was for a long time entirely black glossed with green, when two years old had some of the primary wing-feather greyish-white, and

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

Down the chimney they would have got, but that at the heart of the fire there always lay a certain fir-cone, which looked like solid gold red-hot, and which, although it might easily get covered up with ashes, so as to be quite invisible, was continually in a glow fit to kindle all the fir-cones in the world; this it was which had kept the horrible birds -- some say they have a claw at the tip of every wing-feather -- from tearing the poor naughty princess to pieces, and gobbling her up.

A Double Story George MacDonald 1864

" She leaned her head on his shoulder, and stroked one ice-white wing-feather of the still-shocky Skandranon.

The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994