Citations:feather


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * "I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"

verb: touch lightly, like a feather

 * 2003, Janelle Taylor, By Candlelight, Kensington Publishing Corp. (ISBN 9781420127287)
 * His arms encircled her; his breath feathered her cheek. When his mouth brushed across her skin, searching for hers, Katie&#39;s lips parted instinctively, eager for his kiss.
 * 2008, Miles Hawke, The Dragonnade, Trafford Publishing (ISBN 9781466955059), page 153:
 * Clarissa&#39;s chin moved out of the way of his cutthroat blade, while his blustering gasping breath feathered her lips.
 * 2011, Kate Hewitt, The Man Who Could Never Love, Carina Press (ISBN 9781459205567), page 110:
 * &#39;Mmm.&#39; Vittorio&#39;s fingers trailed up and down her arm, playing her skin like an instrument, his lips now a scant inch from hers so his breath feathered her face. She knew what he was doing. He was distracting her, keeping her from asking the ...

move softly, lightly, light a feather

 * 2013, Julie Lessman, Love at Any Cost (The Heart of San Francisco Book #1): A Novel, Baker Books (ISBN 9781441240576)
 * Oh, Lord . . . “Give me a chance, Cass,” he said quietly, his very touch a kiss as the warmth of his fingers feathered her face. “Teach me to need him like you do.” His gaze dropped to her lips for a shiver of a second before returning to her eyes.
 * 2014, Brenda Joyce, A Sword Upon the Rose, Harlequin (ISBN 9781460334614), page 117:
 * His chest pressed upon her shoulder and his arm against her breast, while his breath feathered her nape. Alana felt her mind go blank. At the same time, her heart raced.

put feathers on or in

 * 1858, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, Bentley's Miscellany, page 90:
 * Madame&#39;s expenses were great, and she had feathered her nest pretty well: somebody paid for it. When madame&#39;s nest should be sufficiently well feathered — or what she would consider so — mit was her intention to return to la belle France ...