CORSICA BUKU YANG BERKAIT DENGAN «SICKLE FEATHER»
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sickle feather dan ekstrak ringkas dari yang sama untuk menyediakan konteks penggunaannya dalam kesusasteraan Corsica.
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The Chambers Dictionary
[OE sicor, from L securus; Ger xicher] sickle1 sik'l. n an implement with a curved
blade and a short handle, for cutting crops, etc, a reaping-hook: a sickle feather.
— adj sick led bearing a sickle. — sick lebill a bird of paradise, humming-bird, etc
.
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The Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors
59 sickle-feather 59 side bit on the s. 50 flip s. 148 hears not on that s. 19 know
which s. his bread is buttered on 44 on the s. 50 on the s. of the angels 127 other
s. of the picture/coin 137 put on s. 151 thorn in the s. 20 sideboard fruit for the s.
Peter Richard Wilkinson, 2008
A sickle- feather in a cock's tail, however beautiful he might be in all other
respects, renders him worthless. Though without the sickle- feathers, which, as a
general rule, distinguish the gallant chanticleer, these 'hen-cocks' show the
highest ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1853
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Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors
Of a loose woman [nEng]. Sickle-feather. One of the long curved feathers in a
cock's tail. He's got the great land/lond and the ill sickle [nEng]. Of one engaged
on a difficult matter. I was asking about a sickle and he was replying about a hoe.
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The Country Gentleman's Magazine
The plumage should be velvety black, or, more correctly, of a metallic green hue,
and the legs of a slate colour up to a dark blue. (6.) The tail is ample, and long in
the sickle feather, and the saddle feathers, like those of the hackle, are superfine
...
Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1868
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
... lift i Sickle-feather— to 1:3), make squeamish 8lck'-ly, adj. 1. Apt «fll, CltHltft (
colloq.) i be ill; Faint ;. side. weak . languid ; as, a sickly smile ; •^1 ; 5-R«I ; suwsf*
? I 3. Causing ill health; ClN«R* l 4. Mawkish; as, sickly sentimental ; <s1i2fll I ...
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A Dictionary of the English and Russian Languages:
Корневбй. Kocá, f. scythe; tail, queue;braid, tress; sickle-feather; ventral or
abdominal fin; sand-bank. Косарь, т. chopping knife; scimitar, cimeter; mower.
Kocá'rmt'b, (acorus adulien'nus) bastard acorus or sweet-rush ; -KáMexb, (lapís ...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
A breeder who wished to produce a hornless breed would only have to take
advantage of such accidents, and per- severingly continue, aa Sir John Sebright
did till he eradicated every sickle feather from the tails of his bantam cocks.
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The J. Paul Getty Museum: Fascicule 8
Cock (feet, ends of two tail feathers, and sickle feather) to right. Inscribed behind
the cock: EIFIIOI. A (86.AE.305.1). Theseus and the Bull of Marathon. All of the
hero is preserved except his head and most of his left arm, but for the hand.
The plumage is gold or silver spangled, every feather being of a golden orange,
with a glossy jet black margin ; the cocks have the tail folded like that of a hen,
without the usual recurred drooping sickle feather, or rather these feathers are ...
