feather-footed

On a whole, the album is not that original, but Sting continues to produce consistent music that is at times deep and at other times sprightly, like a feather-footed figure of mythology.

Mercury Falling 1996

I'm sure you're feather-footed, you go so far and fast.

Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

If, for instance, we did not know that the parent rock-pigeon was not feather-footed or turn-crowned, we could not have told, whether such characters in our domestic breeds were reversions or only analogous variations; but we might have inferred that the blue colour was a case of reversion from the number of the markings, which are correlated with this tint, and which would not probably have all appeared together from simple variation.

V. Laws of Variation. Specific Characters More Variable Than Generic Characters 1909

Even the black marble eye that betrays the white hare on the snow, and the fluffy bird track of the feather-footed northern grouse, grew rarer; and the slave women came in every morning empty-handed from untouched snares.

Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

When I finally left this curious company -- noisy boys, great yellow feather-footed fowls, dainty moorhen and vociferous jays -- it was late, but another amusing experience was in store for me.

A Traveller in Little Things 1881

I have kept the latter alive; they have differently shaped heads, longer necks, and are feather-footed.

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

There is a feather-footed breed, and another with a kind of frill running down the breast.

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

Fancy's light dwarfs! whose feather-footed strains,

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Suddenly being feather-footed isn't just a smug way of driving, it's essential if you want to reach your destination.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

How about that John Travolta is the best damn dancer that's ever graced this planet and the world needed more of his feather-footed goodness after Saturday Night Fever?

Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2009