单词 | unfeathered |
例句 | The posture reduces by half the amount of heat lost from naked, unfeathered limbs. Just One Leg to Stand On 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Research published online today in Royal Society Open Science shows that they use their unfeathered regions, particularly their feet and eyes, to regulate body temperature during flight. Video: Infrared movies capture hummingbirds shedding heat in flight 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z This is the dawn of a weekend when more than a million people from the Washington region are expected to travel 50 or more miles in search of an unfeathered, roasted bird. With snow, when to go? Weather to complicate Thanksgiving travel plans. Its note is remarkable neither for volume nor sweetness, and, like that of unfeathered chatterers, seems to carry more noise than meaning. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Head and neck orange, blue, and red, unfeathered; feathers around neck and on underparts narrow and stiffened; greater wing-coverts tipped with white; under wing-coverts white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z He might have thought of him; and Plato's scowl, When in the school he hurled the unfeathered fowl, And said, ere murmuring lips reproof began, "There, Plato, is, as you defined, a man." Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z The arrows, which are unfeathered and half the diameter of a lead pencil, have for point a sharpened nail attached by a wrapping of sheet-tin. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z What had been the screams of the American eagle, if any, concerning his moral leadership of the family of unfeathered bipeds? The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z To amass more money than they can well spend, or to catch the soap-bubble called fame— "And all to leave what with his tact he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son." How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Head and neck red unfeathered; brownish black; no white in plumage; bill whitish. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Then as inspired a sudden hope to trace, She waved the unfeathered monster from its place. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z Since all breeds of ducks should have clean or unfeathered legs it is likewise necessary to guard against any breeders which show down on the shanks or between the toes as this sometimes occurs. Ducks and Geese As the keenest sportsmen, however, sometimes miss, and rifle balls have a longish range, the sporting on these moors must have been rather dangerous to unfeathered birds as well as to game. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Head and neck unfeathered, black, plumage black; under surface of wings silvery. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z With your paddle-floats unfeathered, wonder was it that you weathered Such a storm as that of Sunday, which upset our nerves on land, Though in fire-side comfort tethered. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 This species is smaller than asio, has shorter ear tufts, the plumage is much streaked and edged with rusty, and the toes are unfeathered to their base. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A vagabond of the blackbird world, he had, like many an unfeathered exile, only sleep to make him forget his empty craw, and only a wayside rock for his resting-place. The Biography of a Prairie Girl If this is true, the unfeathered perroquets were not so spiteful as the feathered ones too often are. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It required, however, but a few generations of experience to show these creatures that the unfeathered biped was a singularly dangerous animal, and they at once and permanently adopted the habit of avoiding him. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization All other unfeathered bipeds were asleep, and we varied our bath by wandering around the beach in a state of nature, viewing things generally, but a turtle pond held us fascinated. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude We could slay them as easily as a hawk pounces into a dove's nest and steals away her unfeathered little ones; the Mad Buffalo alone could have taken the scalps of half the nation. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 "Mary hath three unfeathered ones she spendeth much time feeding," Joel remarked after a short silence. The Coming of the King The former is a large black and white bird with the head and the upper part of the neck unfeathered, except for numerous short, almost bristle-like plumules. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced,—and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) It is a game of cherubs, though of cherubs slightly unfeathered as a result of belonging to the pious English upper-middle classes. The Art of Letters Jacotot Did not supply that lace, I know; And where, I ask, has mortal seen A hat unfeathered? The Bed-Book of Happiness And unfeathered fowl, in their own estimation eminently representative of that regal species, flocked to Deadham church and to The Hard. Deadham Hard It is surely the most intelligent of all animals; the unfeathered bipeds, as the French wits call us two-legged mortals, excepted. Anna St. Ives And now look at the beaten one, without voice, his neck unfeathered, a look of shame. Saint Augustin They have small heads, slender curved beaks, unfeathered legs and feet, and are tailless; the plumage is deep yellowish, marked with black and brown above. The Naturalist in La Plata At this spring season, true, the migratory host of unfeathered bipeds crowds northwards; even as in autumn it accompanies the birds southwards. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The shepherds maintain that he climbs the hills more swiftly than the rough, and in the heavy snowstorms his clean, unfeathered legs do not collect and carry the snow. Dogs and All about Them And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.... English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Such millionaires would do unmixed good in the world; but unfortunately they are apt to die and leave their millions, and the social influence which the millions confer, to "that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son." Lectures and Essays A little above the bend in the river we came upon an old gander and goose and two unfeathered young. The Lure of the Labrador Wild The passer-by has thought it a meritorious deed to crush beneath his heel the chance-met Adder; and a gust of wind has thrown a tiny unfeathered bird from its nest. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects A roughly made bow with unfeathered arrow is a somewhat rare toy. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Having, with great fatigue, cut open one of these eggs, we let out a young one unfeathered, considerably larger than twenty full-grown vultures. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Your eyes stand out of your head like a new-hatched, unfeathered bird’s. A Lady of Quality |
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