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  • A cadet later presented her with a black-plumed military hat to remember her visit.

    Michelle Obama addresses West Point grads 2011

  • I went to check out this claim and, sure enough, not one but two handsome, healthy, black-plumed chickens were strutting about, content as could be.

    What the Buck? Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • I went to check out this claim and, sure enough, not one but two handsome, healthy, black-plumed chickens were strutting about, content as could be.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • The black-plumed senor was obeyed; but the golden-locked

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • The Wedgies reached the Passroad just as the last company of Theiwar marched by, sporting gray plumes, some thirty feet behind the black-plumed rank.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Sharpe could think of only one officer who was so armed, himself, and he felt irritated that there should be another officer with the same weapons, but then the approaching man took off his black-plumed barretina and smiled broadly.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Most of Nave de Haver's Spanish defenders fled into the mists west of the village where they were pursued by cuirassiers in high black-plumed helmets and shining steel breastplates.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • He wore a black-plumed full helmet, with the visor down.

    Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

  • The Wedgies reached the Passroad just as the last company of Theiwar marched by, sporting gray plumes, some thirty feet behind the black-plumed rank.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • Many of the black-plumed hearses are followed by only a single hired coach or omnibus, others by long trails of splendid equipages.

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

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