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green-feathered

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  • Occasionally he would shift his perch on the hanging lamps or tug at the green-feathered cap secured by a strap to his head.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Sipping her coffee, savoring an orange, musing on a green-feathered cockatoo woven into the pattern of her rug, she feels the day pulling her back to "that old catastrophe" enacted in "silent Palestine,/Dominion of blood and sepulcher."

    The Day of Restlessness Jay Tolson 2008

  • In this small house there were bamboo cages containing twenty birds, most of them talking minas and green-feathered small pigeons.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Recently some additional fascinating evidence has come to my attention that argues for my interpretation of Grünewald's green angel as Lucifer — namely, a beautiful, green-feathered angel-Devil painted by Filippo Lippi for a legendary story in the life of St. St.phen (Prato Cathedral).

    Beat the Devil Mellinkoff, Ruth 1991

  • Two had great bows, almost of their own height, and great quivers of long green-feathered arrows.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Under any of these names the green-feathered morsel is excellent eating when broiled or fried.

    White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • In this small house there were bamboo cages containing twenty birds, most of them talking minas and green-feathered small pigeons.

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

  • Met say about living with an 8-foot-tall, green-feathered creature?

    Fore, right! 2010

  • It’s hard to believe that these scrawny chicks will grow into sleek green-feathered adults.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • It’s hard to believe that these scrawny chicks will grow into sleek green-feathered adults.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

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