Sentences with phrase «well as feathers»

Indeed she sees the beauty of plant life year round, from wintry, frozen stalks to the energy of newly emerging buds, dried seaweeds, stones and shells are gathered for inspiration, as well as feathers and pottery.

They share many skeletal features, such as hollow bones, as well as feathers and nest - building behaviors.

His team cataloged 1,549 items, including the shapes of teeth, bones and skulls as well as feather type and distribution.

Joann Early Macken's story works as both a delightful educational introduction to the various aspects of a rainstorm, as well as a feather - light reassurance to a child who is curious and fearful about the weather.

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!

Synthetic pillows can be an inexpensive solution, but some can make you hot and sweaty in the night and the filling doesn't tend to retain its softness and shape as well as its feather - filled counterparts.

Not exact matches

The front end's as light as a feather and just as simple - you answer a few questions and you're good to go.

Be sure to check out the complete list as well as the detailed review of the Feather All Stainless here.

Feather's All Stainless safety razor also made the list of the top safety razors as well!

I personally use a safety razor as I really appreciate that close shave without the risk of ingrown hairs and the amount of money I save by purchasing feather blades is a great plus as well.

Constructed partially of plastic and metal, despite the low price the Feather Popular is still one of the best butterfly safety razors we've come across as unfortunately most twist to open razors don't function as well as they should.

He might as well grab a parakeet feather and make it his talisman.

Poverty elitism is just as exploitive as poverty tourism, for it turns the poor into feathers in our caps and once again presents them as the helpless victims of well - meaning do - gooders.

Archaeopteryx, along with the well developed record of feathered dinosaurs and very early birds, provides a wonderful example of transitional features within extinct forms bridging those features present in extant forms, just as evolution predicts they should.

Okay, Dad gets a bit pis sed... often... but that was the past... (well, He's gonna be pis sed in the future here soon if the FoxNews Christians get their way)... I mean really, my child, what kind of God am I if something humans do can ruffle my feathers... well, the Bird gets pretty pis sed as well... he's a puffy mess right now, actually... Somebody clean the mess of feather and poop up please... sorry... where was I...

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

Light as a feather, these subtle cupcakes are yummy alone, but also carry filling and frosting flavors well, and they pair particularly well with banana filling.

These gluten free vegan waffles are as light as a feather, free from oil, dairy, egg and gluten but best of all, absolutely delicious.

Nevertheless, it may well ruffle a few feathers but with a 16 - point gap at the top of the Premier League table, Guardiola will likely have his mind focused on winning trophies this season as he also prepares for the League Cup final this weekend.

This could be a barn burner and should serve as a feather in the cap of either an undefeated Baylor with an actual, quality win or an OU that could eventually have as good a résumé as any one - loss team outside of Tuscaloosa.

Only good thing to come out was Gabriel can certainly take over from mert no sweat... Coq had a good game... pointless keeping ozil if we don't have targets for him may as well cash in and feather the nest of the corporates destroying this club...

Sir Alex Ferguson, on the other hand, is on the brink of yet another milestone — another feather in his cap, but this one would surely rank as his best yet.

A savage Twitter post from an Arsenal fan involving Arsenal reserve keeper David Ospina took a dig at rivals Tottenham and judging by the reactions the post received, it did manage to delight the Gooners as well as ruffle a few Spurs feathers.

Dembele did well to make space down the right and as goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez failed to collect, Paulinho was perfectly placed to divert towards the corner, with Alcacer perhaps even feathering a final touch.

There's a myriad of stones, shells, feathers, dried flowers and seed heads from country or seaside, family walks, as well as various vintage objects to give me constant inspiration.

My sister - in - law Jennifer who lives in Kansas with her husband and 8 children, as well as numerous chickens, a cow, some pigs and goats told me, «Some people think that the feather mites that chickens have are a problem, but they are not transferable to humans.

Pros: This crib is exceptionally well made and as light as a feather (only 12 lbs.)

However, it is a durable, well - built and slim product that's figuratively, light as a feather (note, if you're all about lightweight strollers, be sure to also check out the ZOE XL1 stroller.

It might be a good idea, however, to agree on a «feathering the nest» budget as a lot of soon - to - be dads may start to suffer from Provider Panic, a fear that they won't be able to adequately provide for the family.

I'm excited to share some natural solutions to both of these problems, as well as our fun DIY feather embellished hair accessories!

Environmentalists contend that the project would be harmful to flora and fauna in the preserve, which covers approximately 130 acres and is home to an oak savanna as well as a variety of furred and feathered species.

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 if you have a convertible car seat that's safe and light as a feather, well, that's just one less thing to worry about.

Amanda Burden fairly gleamed as the roll - call of «Ayes» echoed through the Hall, each affirmation a golden feather on her legacy as the Angel of Good Planning.

Read how your grandparents» experiences may be impacting your behavior, as well as an unconventional ornithologist's theories on feathered dinosaurs.

«The best explanation is that the long stiff feathers, which originated in this group of dinosaurs and were similar to modern bird feathers, could perform equally well as social signals when compared to the bony displays in T. rex or Dilophosaurus,» Gates surmises.

eBird is one of several Cornell Lab citizen - science projects aimed at better understanding our feathered friends as well as other wildlife

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

As Abrams relates in this witty and well - researched book, the impulse to leap off a cliff or soar into the sky with homemade wings stitched together from feathers, leather, bones, canvas, or wood stretches far back into history.

Because many species of small - bodied theropods unearthed since the 1990s had been feathered, many researchers suggested that larger species of tyrannosaurs and their close kin could have feathers, as well, he notes.

As a result of not asking what feathers were good for, we actually made tremendous progress in understanding how they evolved.

«Our new hypothesis has lots of exciting implications about when and where dinosaurs may have originated, as well as when feathers may have evolved,» says University of Cambridge paleontologist Matthew Baron, lead author of the study.

Previous research has shown that the food consumed by a bird, as well as its general well - being, can influence the colour of its feathers.

How has the ancestral scaly skin given rise to the very different morphologies of scales, feathers and hairs, as well as the astonishing variety of forms that these appendages can take?

Fossils are not the only source of clues to the evolution of feathers; bird embryos are as well.

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.

The fossils clearly show a small dinosaur that had flight feathers covering its legs, as well as tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never before seen by palaeontologists.

Archaeologists have previously identified the outline of feathers in its smaller dromeosaur relatives such as the chicken - sized Microraptor — some of which have been preserved exceptionally well in fine lake sediments.

Muchhala thinks the feathers just don't hold pollen as well as fur does.

Although the best evidence for feathers has been found in a group of meat - eating dinosaurs dating back to about 150 million years ago, and from which birds apparently evolved at about the same time, there have been sightings of bristly, filamentous structures in very distantly related plant - eating dinosaurs as well.