Every shade of the green had departed; but warm rains came, and in a few days there was a green carpet plush-like in its softness and delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
Once they found a fluff of plush-like gray fur still bedaubed with light pinkish | blood, then a clot of cream-yellow feathers and draggled skin. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Derelict]
Many a time have I heard ladies dispute the shade and hue of her plush-like coat as they ran their white, jeweled fingers through her silken hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898] Reference
This had shorter plumes of a rich red, but it had two long double curved wires in its tail, and its upper plumage was more plush-like and richer in its colours. From Wordnik.com. [Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas] Reference
The bark of these trees, seen at a little distance, is of a bright orange brown tint, delicately mottled with darker shades, and with a curious silky or plush-like gloss, which gives them. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
Its pursuit of worms and grubs, its nest, its soft plush-like fur, the pointed nose, the strong digging fore-feet, the small all but hidden eyes, and hundreds of other properties, render it a noticeable creature. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
Within easy reach of a great city, with its literary and social clubs, its theaters, lecture courses, public meetings, dinner-parties, etc., he yet lived withdrawn in an academic retirement among elm-shaded avenues and leafy gardens, the dome of the Boston Statehouse looming distantly across the meadows where the Charles laid its "steel blue sickle" upon the variegated, plush-like ground of the wide marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference
Within easy reach of a great city, with its literary and social clubs, its theaters, lecture courses, public meetings, dinner parties, etc., he yet lived withdrawn in an academic retirement among elm-shaded avenues and leafy gardens, the dome of the Boston State-house looming distantly across the meadows where the Charles laid its "steel blue sickle" upon the variegated, plush-like ground of the wide marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Finally, the skin becomes of a plush-like texture, soft, condensed, and with tints that compare as the tints of flowers with the faded colors of the house-painter, or as the matchless tint and plush of the perfect peach to the spotted, colorless, wilted, degenerated representative awaiting the garbage-barrel; and the cherry lips, the cherry gums, and the whiter teeth -- Nature does not match them otherwheres. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
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