1 "Well, if you think I'll marry you to pay for the bonnet, I won't," she said daringly and gave her head a saucy flirt that set the plume to bobbing.
2 She stood back and viewed him with pride, thinking that even Jeb Stuart with his flaunting sash and plume could not look so dashing as her cavalier.
3 He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.
4 As soon as this slight salutation had passed, Montcalm moved toward them with a quick but graceful step, baring his head to the veteran, and dropping his spotless plume nearly to the earth in courtesy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 5 The keen weapon cut the war plume from the scalping tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 6 I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world; and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.'
7 With sword, and uniform, and plume so high.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 8 "But melancholy," interrupted Master Edward, snatching the feathers out of the tail of a splendid parroquet that was screaming on its gilded perch, in order to make a plume for his hat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 9 The white steam was ascending like a plume of feathers from the black chimney.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 113. The Past. 10 His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled expression of passion, in which pride seemed to contend with irresolution.
11 From over a distant rise there floated a gray plume of smoke.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 12 She had come from the direction in which the plume of smoke indicated the position of Merripit House, but the dip of the moor had hid her until she was quite close.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 13 "None at all, if you please, she doesn't wish her name to appear and has no nom de plume," said Jo, blushing in spite of herself.
14 When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the general's three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, till the general asked him to restore it.
15 "See, the prince is pluming himself," said one of the thieves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den.