Sentences with phrase «as the feather like»

But, if you want the publishing part to be as smooth as a feather like the way you penned down your book with ease, follow these few simple steps:

Whilst you swim through the hole, beware of the lionfish and scorpionfish that are common here, as well as the feather like hydroids growing on the walls — they sting!

Not exact matches

Some adored its strange articulations as it came like feathers, hovering.

I don't like this idea of killing two bald Eagle, they should get the feathers, the same as usual, from the dept, of U.S. Fish and Wildlife services... why kill these Eagles... makes no sense, to me... just to make a head dress...

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

Contact dermatitis is know as a skin reaction after touching an irritant like detergents, down feathers, cosmetics, soaps etc..

These maritime people were regarded as master shipbuilders who traveled across the seas of the Indonesian archipelago collecting everything from sandalwood to spices, exotic feathers and even gold, to sell at faraway lands like Singapore.

this club, under his tutelage, has ruffled a lot of feathers over the years and now it's coming home to roost... his arrogance has rubbed many the wrong way, but winning provided the perfect tonic to cure all ills... whether largely self - created or a byproduct of all the media attention, Wenger seemed to embrace his cult - like status, which would eventually be his downfall... he claimed that his club was different... more of an extended family than a footballing club and only those with what he deemed as «special» qualities could even hope to join such an exclusive club... these «qualities» were hailed by most, especially as the wins kept rolling in... but with exclusivity comes a certain amount of cockiness, which can be somewhat healthy in a highly competitive environment if it comes from a honest place... it wouldn't take long for the fans to embrace their bespectacled former economics professor, going so far as to suggest he could do no wrong... but this fairy tale couldn't last forever

And flying through his routines like one of your feathered friends was Jim Stephenson, captain of an Iowa State team that at times seemed easily as interested in sailing its balsa wood gliders as it was in gaining its second title in three years.

Use half the pockets for collage materials (kids this age like gluing things together and working with different textures), such as colored glue sticks, feathers, cut - out shapes, vacation postcards, pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and pom - poms.

Bugs are small and kids do like bugs — a magnifying glass is a perfect addition to your nature whether they use it for looking for bugs in the leaves or looking more closely at the hooks on a feather and if you get a combined tweezer and magnifying set then you cover item 7 on our essential nature kit as well.

As a professor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, George studied insects and their parasites, traveling to amber hot spots like the Dominican Republic, Canada, Mexico and northern Europe to collect and describe just about anything trapped in resin, from feathers to frogs.

The Daohugou Biota makes an immense contribution to our understanding of vertebrate evolution during this period, with such notable creatures as the oldest known gliding mammal, another early mammal that may have swum with a beaver - like tail, the oldest dinosaurs preserved with feathers, and a pterosaur that represents an important transitional form between two major groups.

The fossils discussed in the paper are of dinosaurs of the species Ornithomimus edmontonicus, which means they looked something like modern ostriches, and are theropods — bipedal and carnivorous — as are most of the feathered dinosaurs already known to science.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botLike all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botlike ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

«What you would really like, of course, is to mark flocks of hens that are at risk to develop feather pecking as early as possible, so preferably before they even move to the laying farm.»

Younger males, who don't have as much home - decorating game as the older bowerbirds, will sneak in to other bowers and steal decorative items, like blue feathers, shells, bright berries, and colorful bits of plastic.

The problem with these hair - like forerunners of feathers and with fur is that neither allow for much color, but tend instead to come in basic patterns of brown and yellow tones as well as in black and white.

Contrary to their portrayal in popular films, dinosaurs are now widely accepted by scientists as having been covered in feathers, possibly in a range of colors, much like the colorful plumage of modern birds, which are a living dinosaur lineage.

It's made from overlapping strips of flexible material, layered somewhat like feathers or fish scales, allowing for the pieces to move across each other as the wing flexes, while still providing a smooth outer surface.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

As birds swing their wings upward, the feathers separate like window blinds to let air through, which prevents the lift - reducing currents that the bats experienced, the researchers say.

Children could try to balance on one leg like flamingos, which stand on one leg as they scoop up food and eat the pink water bugs that give them their bright feathers.

Ask 1000 Fox viewers if they can tell the difference between a piece like Milloy's and what you consider journalism, and knock me over with a feather if as many as a half of them can.

Bes is depicted as a dwarf with lion - like features and sometimes wears a Nubian - style headdress with feathers.

The collection features such memorable creatures as the oldest known gliding mammal, another early mammal that may have swum with a beaver - like tail, the oldest dinosaurs preserved with feathers and a pterosaur that represents an important transitional form among these now extinct, warm - blooded flying reptiles.

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

«Studies of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs − such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor − keep finding more and more bird - like traits, such as feathers, wishbones, hollow skeletons and a three - fingered hand,» Lee said.

I know you don't like to talk about the products you use so people don't mistake it as a plug, but I am tempted to ask as it would really help me avoid the low - quality (crushed bird - feathers) stuff.

The truth is that when placed on a scale, one pound of fat is going to weigh the same as one pound of muscle — just like one pound of bricks is going to weigh the same as one pound of feathers.

Fur coats always look so great as they are like you have worn birds feathers that are so warm and hot.

The material is really as gentle as rose petals and lightweight like a feather.

As always, I like to add a striking accessory, so I went for the boho feather earrings to which I'm currently obsessed.

The brushes are merely like a feather touching skin, they are so delicate and give such flawless coverage it gives a nice healthy air brushed look as they pack the right amount of product.

After a little tailoring to give the dress a more form - fitting silhouette, attaching the crystals, and sewing on the feathers as a skirt, the dress looks like something straight from the red carpet.

, is light as a feather and has been so cool to wear in the recent hot spell (which I'm missing already, it felt like being on holiday!).

Kristi was shooting a fun look as well, how great is that feather skirt (it's actually a dress she turned into a skirt... she's so talented like that!)

The unfinished hem gave it a soft, feather like appearance making it look extra delicate as it created a balance with her structured topper:

We saw looks with feathers, ruffles and statement florals — and to see that all in one show may sound like a lot — but Siriano's imagination in his constructions was (as Tim Gunn would say), he made it work.

George Miller's strange - but - charming Happy Feet theorizes that if a papa penguin drops the egg, it won't kill the chick inside, as was so fervently, memorably anfd heartwrenchingly noted in March of the Penguins... it'll just rattle his innards, turning him into a mildly eccentric potential social outcast who can't sing like the rest of his breed, but can shake his tail feathers like Fred, Ginger AND Bojangles!

The cast themselves are exceptional to a man, playing off one another superbly as the stronger personas assert their dominance, brushing aside the weaker characters like feathers in the wind.

He penned feather - light romances like Roman Holiday, sweeping war pictures such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a swords - and - sandals epic in Sparta...

Referring to the next Super Duty as «an ornery sumgun,» my source at Ford tells me that it will make the other heavy - duty trucks look like «little dainty whirligigs that can't tow nothin» but a sack o» feathers.»

I wouldn't go as far as to call the Nook Tablet feather - light, but it's not so heavy that you can't put in a solid reading session without feeling like your arm is going to fall off.

The e-paper screen glides like a feather when dropped, as I found out.

Toys can be important to not only keep a bird active and occupied but also avoid the development of bad behaviors such as yelling, biting or self - destructive actions like feather plucking.

If the by - product is labeled as crude protein, items like the animal's hide, beaks and feathers are included.

A TYPICAL YEAR OLD LION DOG c. 1923 C.R. Edmonds, Farmer's Weekly, February 7, 1923) Height — 24 inches at the shoulder Weight — 60 lb Colour — Tawny, fawn or brindle Coat — short and hard Tail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as described.

As followers of Jackson Galaxy know, you only want to use a laser with something like a feather wand or other «prey» toy so your cat can actually catch something and end the game.

I also like to expose dogs to feathers as soon as possible.