Noun : two boys of the same feather. ,Your worry is a mere feather. From Dictionary.com.
The last veil dropped free, floated featherlike to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
A few spikes of coarse, featherlike hair escaped to hang loose over the jagged hole in his white face. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
This book's version has no clouds, while all other versions I've seen have some featherlike sirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Marking a Mark] Reference
Before sticking the prize in her sack, she ran her thumb over the featherlike gills just for the pleasure of the soft feel. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
The two swam easily on the surface with their long siamang arms, laughing and calling to one another as the jellyfish in their millions caressed them with the most featherlike of touches. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Dor put his left arm around the girl's slender and supple waist and lifted her easily off her feet; what power this body hadl Maybe it wasn't his muscles so much as her lack of mass; she was featherlike though firmly fleshed. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon Street] Reference
This fossil showed feather precursors and featherlike projectiles with a scaled skin. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
A breath of patchouli and sandalwood, the featherlike caress of hennaed fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
But Mongolian lambswool a fuzzy, almost featherlike material emerged as a popular alternative. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
But Mongolian lambswool - a fuzzy, almost featherlike material - emerged as a popular alternative. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Another option: Mongolian lambswool - a fuzzy, almost featherlike material - has emerged as a popular alternative. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories]
Another option: Mongolian lambswool -- a fuzzy, almost featherlike material -- has emerged as a popular alternative. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
The leaves are featherlike, with many small leaflets, medium to dark green and growing to 4 inches long and half as wide. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
That discovery prompted British and Chinese scientists to examine fossils of dinosaurs that are covered with featherlike structures. From Wordnik.com. [Blah, Blah! Technology] Reference
That discovery prompted British and Chinese scientists to examine some fossils of dinosaurs that are covered with featherlike structures. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Benton was intrigued when he read Vinther's research and wondered what it might mean for dinosaurs, so he began studying fossils with featherlike structures. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
She sighed as she watched the town fade and then a snowflake, featherlike and moist, swirled under the projecting roof and melted on her cheek, to recall her to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
The line is blue, and it draws a succession of seven graceful and almost featherlike double wings which surround the central glory and are clearly intended as a part of it. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
Since then, however, scientists have found a number of well-preserved theropod fossils with many more featherlike structures, corresponding to downy feathers and feathers with vanes. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The younger woman had suffered her gaze to wander to far Ægina, where a featherlike cloud hung above the topmost summit of the isle, when her mother’s voice called her back. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
It’s not an end but a beginning they say, and showed me how with gentle urgings to ward the bile, train the eye; seeking style, soaring featherlike and free on metaphor, drinking cogent imagery, finding more than just the vicious cuts of brutal words demeaned in texts riddled with crude and unredeemed invective. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
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