Ostrich Plume

Well, it was hard lines on her, but duty called, so I just popped my head round her door to call a chaste farewell - and there she was, dammit, reclining languorously on the coverlet like one of those randy classical goddesses, wearing nothing but the big ostrich-plume fan I'd brought her from Egypt, and her sniggering maid turning the lamp down low. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He described the ostrich-plume hat, the blue wool cloak, my green cape, and my beaded slippers. ❋ Elle Newmark (2008)

A waving ostrich-plume — a buckler burnished bright; ❋ Unknown (2006)

Behind her seat a sullen handsome girl waved an ostrich-plume fan with a slow rhythm. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Well, it was hard lines on her, but duty called, so I just popped my head round her door to call a chaste farewell — and there she was, dammit, reclining languorously on the coverlet like one of those randy classical goddesses, wearing nothing but the big ostrich-plume fan I'd brought her from Egypt, and her sniggering maid turning the lamp down low. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1975)

The large, bright eye glanced with the prettiest shyness at its captors, and the cluster of feathers forming its tail drooped with the rare grace of an ostrich-plume. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

In his right hand the gentleman carried a broad black hat with a scarlet ostrich-plume, in his left hand an ebony cane. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

So shiny was he that you could see reflected on his sides the black, gold-spangled tights and fluffy black skirts worn by Mlle. Zaretti, who poised on his back as lightly as if she had been an ostrich-plume dropped on a snow-bank and who smilingly kissed her finger-tips to the craning-necked tiers of spectators with charming indiscrimination and admirable impartiality. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Involuntarily, the Doomsman stepped back and another arrow grazed his heel; a half turn to the right and a third shaft sheared the curling ostrich-plume from his hat. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)

He of the ostrich-plume spurred to the gallop; inevitably their paths must intersect a few yards farther on. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)