"When a brave is wounded in the same battle where he counted his coup, he wears the feather hanging downward. When he is wounded, but makes no count, he trims his feather and in that case, it need not be an eagle feather. All other feathers are merely ornaments. When a warrior wears a feather with a round mark, it means that he slew his enemy. When the mark is cut into the feather and painted red, it means that he took the scalp.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
'The first is the dun fly in March: the body is made of dun wool, the wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is another dun fly: the body of black wool; and the wings made of the black drake's feathers, and of the feathers under his tail.'英文原著 · 《Introduction to The Compleat Angler》
In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap. Once or twice, if you will believe me, a little man was made chief ruler of the nation for no other merit in the world than bringing home such a feather.英文原著 · 《Tanglewood Tales》
{illust. caption = FIG. 12--Hen driving away a dog from her chickens. Drawn from life by Mr. informed by Mr. Jenner Weir, likewise ruffle their feathers, and spread out their wings and tail under similar circumstances. Some kinds of parrots erect their feathers; and I have seen this action in the Cassowary, when angered at the sight of an Ant-eater. Young cuckoos in the nest, raise their feathers, open their mouths widely, and make themselves as frightful as possible.英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
"You thought it was a chart of the Pacific Islands," answered Brown. "Put a feather with a fossil and a bit of coral and everyone will think it's a specimen. Put the same feather with a ribbon and an artificial flower and everyone will think it's for a lady's hat. Put the same feather with an ink-bottle, a book and a stack of writing-paper, and most men will swear they've seen a quill pen. So you saw that map among tropic birds and shells and thought it was a map of Pacific Islands. It was the map of this river."英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
A nation with a root religion will be tolerant. A nation with no religion will be bigoted. Lastly, the worst effect of all is this: that when men come together to profess a creed, they come courageously, though it is to hide in catacombs and caves. But when they come together in a clique they come sneakishly, eschewing all change or disagreement, though it is to dine to a brass band in a big London hotel. For birds of a feather flock together, but birds of the white feather most of all.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
I was doing fine until my hair got gang feather by that girl from that church of good vibes.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You'd better have a good reason you're late, because I managed to get here on time despite removing the disease pigeon feathers from my hair.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Couldn't you wave a feather or spin your head or throw up or something?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Or, more appropriately, feathers -- as to decide whether it's actually or, more appropriately, feathers -- as to decide whether it's actually演讲 · 《Digging up dinosaurs ~ Paul Sereno》