| 单词 | featherless |
| 例句 | Slim and dark grey-blue, with dry, featherless wings and round, unblinking, yellowish eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “As if they could help forgetting! Why, in a month or two—three at the most—they won’t even know what my name is—silly cuckoos! Silly, half-grown, featherless cuckoos! Ha! Ha! Ha!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Diminutive height, white plumage, yellow featherless legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Standard height, fluffy black-and-white plumage with distinctive barring, yellow featherless legs and feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Here, Ratmansky steers away from black swan imagery — Odile’s dark featherless dress is washed in shades of green and purple like an iridescent fish dipped in glitter. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z “The just-hatched cuckoo, still blind and featherless, has a special hollow like a dimple on its back,” he continued, “so that it can hump out of the nest, one by one, its companion fledglings.” John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Nearly featherless and vulnerable, nestlings peep and open their tiny beaks wide when their parents flutter into their nests to deliver fat worms or protein-filled bugs to eat. Does that baby bird on the ground need your help? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The game birds are lined up at the butcher, their featherless breasts kept warm by fatty bacon and a bay leaf. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Man is a featherless biped, says one famously inadequate philosophical definition. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The officer then looked inside and saw more eggs and a tiny featherless bird that had just hatched. Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Wood storks have a distinctive scaly, featherless gray head and a bright white feathered body with long skinny legs. US proposes removing wood stork from endangered species list 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Passing one ground nest, Slaton bends to watch as two tiny featherless gray and pink pelican chicks squirm, eyes still closed. Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z In June and early July, the rookery would typically resemble a nursery overrun with featherless black-skinned newborns with pterodactyl features or weeks-old hatchlings with heart-shaped brown patches on their backs. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z O. avarsan, which was believed to be featherless and omnivorous, lived approximately 68 million years ago. Bizarre-looking dinosaur looks like it's been crossed with a parrot: See the drawing 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Baby parrots are featherless, so it’s difficult to property identify them. Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Frankly, they were kind of ugly: wrinkled, featherless skin and beaks like coin purses. Perspective | A robin’s nest on your porch is even better than a nature documentary 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z In February, the team published another amber discovery: a bird's foot topped with feathers—an expected but previously unseen evolutionary step for modern birds, which later evolved scaly, featherless feet. Fossils in Burmese amber offer an exquisite view of dinosaur times—and an ethical minefield 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition — robust muscleman and gawky fowl — is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato’s description of humans as featherless bipeds. Out of the shadows, into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z However, Brusatte says, concluding that big tyrannosaurs like T. rex were totally featherless would be premature. Here’s What It Would Feel Like to Pet a T. Rex 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Back on the ground, Mummert allowed kids and adults from the audience to hold the owlets as he gently squeezed numbered bands around a featherless leg. Rare barn owlets put on a show in banding operation 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Either way, it seems moviegoers weren't too bothered that the movie rejects modern science with its featherless dinos. Jurassic World earns over half a billion worldwide in biggest opening weekend ever 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z It seems today all of the dinosaurs in the newest film remain scaly and featherless for both continuity and drama-sake. Jurassic World and The Cinematic Science of Dinosaurs 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z He caught everyone’s attention, gathered a crowd around him, and announced his deduction: “Man is defined as a hairless, featherless, two-legged animal!” Meaning on the Brain: How Your Mind Organizes Reality 2012-12-26T16:45:02.780Z Two or three bedraggled tail-feathers appeared at the aperture in the back of this garment; otherwise Agamemnon seemed to be quite featherless. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The nest of the wren is built in any convenient cranny: an ivy-covered tree, the thatch of a barn or a warm scarecrow are all used by this featherless little bird. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z He was like a weak featherless duckling, limping after the rest, and waddling to one side with the little bit he could catch for himself, nobody shared with him, and therefore he shared with nobody. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z It was a small featherless steel arrow, one of thousands that a French aviator had let loose upon the astonished and terrified Germans. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z “We fear sharks less than we do a certain brand of featherless biped.” The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z Above our heads were wheeling great vultures—huge birds, almost black, with lean, featherless heads—which added to the wildness of the scene. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z At first the nestlings were ugly, featherless creatures, and seemed all beaks and appetites; but presently they began to grow, to put out plumage, and become round and fat. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z Brighter and brighter glowed the human rose, as the featherless nightingale told his tale in music, unconsciously approaching the happy sequel with each step. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z When a featherless biped is bearer, And through the lone woods his path picks, The feet of this weary wayfarer Cover yards quite 1466. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone “The featherless head is a general mark of the vultures,” said the colonel. Real Gold A Story of Adventure Between two large trees lay an unusually large crow, featherless and bleeding, in its death struggle. Mary It would, perhaps, be rash in us "featherless bipeds" to condemn Star all at once; there is no saying on what grounds he may have resisted this educational attempt. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) Only a poor featherless turtle dove, perched on the top of a dead tree, utters plaintive notes in its lonely singleness. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Plato calls man a featherless biped: never mind; he decks himself with borrowed feathers. Black Forest Village Stories Eagerly they told him all about their little guest, and asked him if he had heard anything of a featherless bird, a strayed elf, or a human changeling hidden in a blue egg. Lulu's Library, Volume II Plato made the definition "Man is a two-footed featherless animal," and was much praised for it. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Many a featherless biped has had the same experience with his society-spoiled wife. Ways of Nature Should he not rejoice in the next bloody cockpit of featherless bipeds? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The jabiru stork heard it, and craned its featherless neck to stare downward through beady eyes. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Whatever others may say, I don't believe there are such things as good brutes here on earth; I speak now of featherless brutes that go on two legs. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine They stared at him with their lustful, carrion, jeweled eyes out of their loathsome, featherless, naked heads, drawing nearer—nearer—nearer. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main This beak moved backwards and forwards, and in and out, and gradually, the crack becoming larger, a small featherless head emerged. What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps Those poor, featherless creatures can't come here, neither can he get away, without wings. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts They had to be much more carefully looked after than chickens when they were young, they were so helpless in their nests, such mere weak wads of featherless flesh. A Boy's Town The featherless arrows show the connection of the instruments. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Such a day was the birthday in the little nest in the raspberries, and on my usual morning call I found four featherless birdlings, with beaks already yawning for food. A Bird-Lover in the West But it is always the case that these exhumations, from first to last, have revealed the furry game furless and the feathered game featherless, except for the pinion- and tail-feathers. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles To the Professor she was Miss H. Sapiens—an agreeable, featherless plantigrade biped of the genus Homo. Bones in London However, the featherless patch on the rook's cheeks suffices, whatever its cause, as a mark by which to recognise the bird living or dead. Birds in the Calendar The path of the water is shown by the featherless arrows. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use There he would sit upon his elbows, his helpless feet out in front of him, his great featherless wings touching the floor, and shrilly cry for more food. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Similarly "featherless bipeds" will have a complex meaning, containing as constituents the presence of two feet and the absence of feathers, while its denotation will be the class of men. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Willy-nilly, even higglety-pigglety and helter-skelter, these are what the featherless biped is after. The Perfect Gentleman There is One who takes thought for two-legged featherless animals too. Debts of Honor Most birds might be denuded of the feathers on their heads; not so, however, the vulture, for his head is always featherless. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "Why, auntie, the 'bird featherless' must have been the snow; but who was the knight!" Prudy Keeping House They had large mouths and panting sides and tiny featherless bodies. Stories of Birds The eggs had been hatched, and the fledglings, with eyes not yet opened, stretched their featherless necks and opened their beaks when the Pope put down his hand to touch them. The Eternal City I was like a young bird, featherless, naked, trembling, knocked out of its nest before it could fly. The Fifth Wheel A Novel But when King Jormunrek saw the hawk, it came to his mind that as the hawk was flightless and featherless, so his kingdom was without preservation; for he was old and sonless. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda She had grown pale,—aye, blanched,—and bent more than ever; as if old age had already touched her with its featherless wing. Great Sea Stories Riddle about a gun: A featherless bird flew over the sea, A bird without feathers, how can that be? The Women of the Arabs From each emerged the featherless head of a fowl—the species hitherto unknown to the American continent. The Disentanglers The feathered warblers have always been popular with the featherless, who are indebted to them for no end of similes and suggestions. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Here Loolowcan presented me the three birds, plucked featherless as Plato's man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 As a eunuch is unproductive with women, as a cow is unproductive with a cow, as a bird lives in vain that is featherless, even so is a Brahmana that is without mantras. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 "If one hasn't boots, one may catch a cold and die of it—which is, after all, worse than going featherless." Marcella It is now taught that these ancient winged-reptiles were featherless, and more closely resembled the Bat family than birds. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga Meaning, I presume, the organ of building; which I contend to be not a natural organ of the featherless biped. Headlong Hall Not an arrow of the keen blast reaches them, poor little featherless things, not a snowflake touches them. Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones As for the birds, I do not believe there is one of them but does more good than harm; and of how many featherless bipeds can this be said. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Even in the shallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two. Little Dorrit See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! Our Mutual Friend As for the birds, I do not believe there is one of them but does more good than harm; and of how many featherless bipeds can this be said? My Garden Acquaintance O, that the featherless jaybirds now trying to twitter in long-primer type would apply the soft pedal unto themselves, would add no more to life's dissonance and despair! Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Think of a featherless he animal playing peacock—no mission in God's world but to dress and undress itself three times a day. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 But when his sire saw it, he knew at once that, as the hawk was featherless and unable to fly, so was his realm defenceless under an old and sonless king. Popular Tales from the Norse The waving of his two featherless wings caused the great winds that froze Cocytus. National Epics Sometimes his discourses are only common-place, wordy, and featherless; but in the general run he is much above the average of sermonisers. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston But we were speaking of progress when diverted by the discordant clamor of featherless crows. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 But the learned doctors again examined me, and decided that, as I did not walk on four legs, I must be a new kind of featherless parrot. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction In midwinter, when the seashore watering-places are forsaken by men, you may find Nahant or Nantasket Beach more thronged with bipeds of this sort than by the featherless kind in summer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 Ye children of man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day; Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! Mosaics of Grecian History He is the mere outline of a man—the "featherless biped" of the philosopher. A Handbook of Ethical Theory "Oh, as for featherless—then there is no saying what they will do.—" Aaron's Rod For that purpose he climbed up a tree, so that they should not see him; he got his spear ready to kill one of the featherless birds. Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies They are said to be haunted by Kurreah, which swallow their victims whole, or by Gowargay, the featherless emu, who sucks down in a whirlpool any one who dares to bathe in his holes. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia But it is always the case that these exhumations, from first to last, have revealed the furry game furless and the feathered game featherless, except for the tail-feathers and the pinion-feathers of the wings. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Across the threshold stepped a tall figure under a wide, featherless hat, and wrapped in a cloak which he loosened as he entered, revealing the very plainest of raiment beneath. Love-at-Arms And sitting on a branch of that oak, with a gray head bent and featherless wings gathered up to her neck was a crow. The King of Ireland's Son The schoolmen, or rather certain of the schoolmen—for nothing is much shallower than to speak of all those disputants as one school—defined woman, "a featherless biped vehemently addicted to jealousy." Hard Cash A big, broad-shouldered man, in a suit of homespun and a featherless hat, thrust his way rudely trough the crowd and broke into the space within the belt of trees. Saint Martin's Summer The 'bare-grinning skeleton of death' was to me merely a prepared specimen of that featherless plantigrade vertebrate, 'homo sapiens'. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless. The Mutiny of the Elsinore She had grown pale, aye, blanched, and bent more than ever, as if old age had already touched her with its featherless wing. An Iceland Fisherman Whether she is more featherless than the male can be decided at a trifling expense of time, money, and reason: you have but to go to court. Hard Cash The featherless beings plied their work cheerfully, and answered, "Reform!" Man and Wife "Oh, it is well enough as the production of a human composer, sung by featherless bipeds, to quote the late Diogenes." The Count of Monte Cristo And the chickens, featherless but indomitable, were enjoying the milder weather as they pecked at the grain and grits which the steward had just placed in their feeding-trough. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The next morning, the Owls—fast asleep in charge of the Constitution—were roused by voices of featherless beings all round them. Man and Wife |
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