Sentences with phrase «like a feather on»

The fossil has traces of crest - like feathers on its tail but was not preserved well enough to show signs of flight feathers.

Plus, the bristles are so soft, they feel like feathers on your skin.

We all agree to it but these days covers are like a feather on the cap.

When your cat is going after toys designed to mimic prey, like a feather on a pole or a catnip mouse, she's using her mind as well as her body.

Ms. Sterne, who arrived late, was positioned on a table in the back row, where, she later said, she stood out «like a feather on top.»

Insidious because it is not obvious and builds up over time like feathers on a scale each having an impact but only after a period of accumulation does the scale seem to tip.

Not exact matches

It has been excessively soft toward «acceptable» candidates like Mitt Romney and rough on those who would ruffle feathers.

I don't think that the lds was founded on a bet (like Scientology) but a religion founded on the run from angry mobs with tar and feathers is only slightly better.

I don't have a wedding board, but I confess that when I'm not busy changing the world through blogging, I like to scroll through the wedding images on Pinterest and daydream about doing it all over again, this time with a peacock feather in my hair and grilled cheese sandwich bites on the menu.

We would like to think that bishops had the good sense to junk the worthless questionnaire in favor of proclaiming the Church's message «in season and out of season» — no matter whether it ruffled the feathers of the IRS or gave an ulcer to USCC experts on the legal niceties of ecclesiastical pusillanimity.

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.

Use a mandoline or the slicing disc on your food processor to quickly transform these little cabbage - like veggies to a mound of feather - light fronds.

Loaded with Vitamin B, textured like a feather - light, grated cheese, and adds a nutty flavor to everything you put it on.

Nothing and what is he leaving behind coqoliin xhaka eleny monreal walcott!!!! So he has had 80 million in wages and thats what he cares about and that also goes for everyone running OUR club that do nt give a monkeys about the title or europe it will only change when totally fail and finish 10 - 12 for a few years and there pockets get hit and i can see it and that will make me hate wenger kronke gazidis and all those stuck up arrogant directors of our beloved club it will be like going back to Don howe managing the club and 17000 on the stands I hope i am wrong but can anyone see it any other way????? Time for change and change now Troy deemy is right no balls I wouldnt want to go into a battle with any of them backing me up White feathers all round

Unless he learns to hit like he's got something more substantial than a feather in his hands, no one's even going to claim him on waivers.

A 2 - 1 win over Blackpool at Bloomfield is the stand out result so far, for Sam Allardyce's combative side, who will no doubt look to rustle more feathers at Anfield on Sunday afternoon, much like they did a season ago when pushing the Reds right to the limit before eventually bowing down to a 2 - 1 defeat.

Nanea is also fun to dress up in her add - on Hula outfit which include a faux - ti - leaf skirt that rustles like the sounds of real hula skirts, red hawaiian top, colorful yellow leis and feathered gourd shakers.

Cut out a bird shape from the construction paper, then glue on googly eyes, feathers, pom poms, whatever your «bird» would like to look like!

In fact I have written a blog post about it on my website on fathers and their feathers, and it came about from a question that was asked to me about a dad that «my husband doesn't like to do skin - to - skin contact because he feels like the hair on his chest is going to bothered the baby,» and I have to tell them that it doesn't matter what the father's hairy chest looks like, the baby is going to love being there.

Then glue the turkey's body on top of the feathers, so it looks like they are sticking out from behind the bird.

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.

But a cloudlike G2 would feel a drag, like a feather moving through air on Earth, says Ann - Marie Madigan of the University of California, Berkeley, who's not affiliated with either team.

Slightly later, feathers would have looked like fuzzy down... and so on through the steps of feather development until you get a full planar feather.

For most of the past century, people hypothesized that feathers had evolved from elongated scales, like shingles on a house that got longer and longer until they hung off the body and provided aerodynamic function, catching air and enabling gliding and ultimately flying.

In the animal world, these qualities include things like thick, well - groomed fur, long feathers, big antlers, or, in the case of the stickleback fish, the size and hue of the red spot on his belly.

Unlike other long - distance travelling seabirds like albatrosses, frigatebirds» feathers lack waterproof oil so they can't take a break on the sea.

The fossil is built very much like a modern penguin, but when Julia Clarke of the University of Texas, Austin, inspected the melanin - rich grains called melanosomes on its feathers, she found a surprising difference.

Unlike feathers of other colors, which are pigmented, bright blue feathers, like these on the vulturine guineafowl, are the result of nanoscale structures in the feather barbs.

McAlister shows off the Diptera collection like an adoring parent: the lovely bee flies; the curious hairy legs of the robber fly; the amazing eyes of the stalk - eyed flies; the mosquito with feathered mid-legs that look like legwarmers; U.K. crane flies with wide wingspans and long, delicate legs; the horse fly with a 2 - inch - long proboscis; the bot flies that lay their eggs on mosquitoes for transportation.

After looking through the ornithology literature, Therrien says, the team concluded that the spacing of the dark marks looked very much like the distribution of the large, shafted feathers on the wings of an ostrich.

The feather - like projections on the back of the pre-dinosaur Longisquama insignis (24 March, p 8) remind me of a defensive...

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.

«They had broad feathers on their limbs and tail, and glided from tree to tree, like flying squirrels,» says Persons.

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.

Like Microraptor, the new specimen had feathers on all four limbs; but its feathery tail, which takes up about 30 % of its total length, is the longest known among flying dinosaurs.

This crow - sized Archaeopteryx displayed a mosaic of both bird - like and reptilian features: Plumage with modern feathers, but also clawed fingers on its wings, teeth in its mouth, and a long bony tail.

«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.

You see, many animals and birds are just like us humans in that they depend on the sun to produce vitamin D through oils that react with sunlight (UV - B rays) shining on their skin, fur, or feathers.

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.

And, while you can totally opt to wear feather - light cosmetics, for those of us who like to get our glam on, makeup that packs a skin care punch is where it's at.

The feather - like fringe on this skirt makes it instantly party - ready (see other pairing ideas here and here), but can be dressed down a bit with neutrals.

Run (or walk) like the wind with this shoe — its extremely lightweight design feels lighter than a feather on your foot.

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.

Soft, full, and well — feather - like, the Feathered Brow is both purposefully imperfect and hyper - focused on emphasizing each and every little hair.

There was feather - like sequin, then there was tiered lace, and on to patchwork suede... today it's velvet!

, 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!).

I love your floral feather creation and I bet you could wear it on the front of your shoulder (Like SJP in the opening credits of the SATC movie).

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