Nearby was a slaughterhouse or chicken processing plant; as he entered the archive, he heard the birds squawking, smelled the stench of burnt feathers.

But now you can only mock and say, 'Mavovo the brave in battle, the great hunter, the loyal man, becomes a liar when he blows the burnt feather, or reads what the wind writes upon the charmed ashes.'

Or should I fetch a burnt feather, do you think?

There was a reek of burnt feathers, synthetic rubber, a whiff of molasses, attar of roses, old socks, new leather, dead fish.

Louise was summoning servants and ordering wine and ammoniac spirits and burnt feathers, all at once; I must have looked rather alarming.

He picked up one of the burnt feathers from the little pile by his side and looked at it attentively.

Gouts of flame flared in the air as arrows ignited, the acrid stink of burnt feathers drifting in the still air as the metal heads pocked the sea with a rash of stifled hisses.

The room stank of burnt feathers and charred flesh.

Graypatch spat out some burnt feathers and picked at his fangs.

The stench of burnt feathers assailed the air.