"Feather boa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off Shaftesbury Avenue the parts of a woman were shown separate. In the left hand was her skirt. Twining round a pole in the middle was a feather boa. Ranged like the heads of malefactors on Temple Bar were hats—emerald and white, lightly wreathed or drooping beneath deep-dyed feathers. And on the carpet were her feet—pointed gold, or patent leather slashed ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... apply the inductive system before, and he was well pleased with himself. His somewhat melancholy eyes almost beamed on Miss Petunia, and he felt a warm glow in his heart for the poor little thing who had come to him in her trouble. As he stood waiting for Miss Scroggs to gather up her feather boa and her parasol and her black hand-bag, he felt the dangerous pity of the strong ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... tells you that a girl at the Junior Promenade had on a blue dress with feathers around her neck—which you must translate into meaning anything from blue satin to organdie, and that between dances she wore a feather boa. ...
— From a Girl's Point of View • Lilian Bell
... to button her gloves, and to readjust her feather boa with which she had been knocking the Easter cards off the counter. Then she suddenly ...
— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock |
