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There wasn't a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

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There wasn't a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

There wasn't a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

Hugh's a downier bird than they think – not just an overgrown ex-fighter pilot with a crafty streak.

The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971

Struthers, I know, could tell him of a warmer bag than that, lined with downier feathers from the pinions of Eros.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

Does not sleep seem to hover with a downier wing over those sofas on which the limbs of a princess have been laid?

Devereux — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Does not sleep seem to hover with a downier wing over those sofas on which the limbs of a princess have been laid?

Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

_why_ wool is soft, and fur fine, and cotton downy, and down downier; and how a flax fiber differs from a dandelion stalk, and how the substance of a mulberry leaf can become velvet for Queen Victoria's crown, and clothing of purple for the housewife of Solomon.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

"You always must have been a precious sight downier than I thought.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

They are downier than you are; they would shrug their aristocratic shoulders, and decline to listen to the _past_ lives of their sons-in-law -- unless it was all in the newspapers, mind you. "

A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Charles Reade 1849