"Please, stop, stop, stop," Jilly chanted over that feathery voice.

"I owe you my life," she said in her feathery voice.

"I had a life that was out of sight," he began in a feathery voice that nonetheless carried through the stone-still conference hall.

I guess so,' Niles said, in a dry, feathery voice.

"She doesn't know what has hurt us," the feathery voice whispered.

He said in a soft, feathery voice, "I think they are forming over there, General.

And then, quite distinctly, came a rather feathery voice, right at Otter's elbow.

He had a cool, feathery voice that nevertheless carried clearly above the carnival din.

Then a feathery voice came from her bedside, the god's most soothing incarnation.

Guests crowded the main room, listening to Florrie tell stories in her feathery voice; other folks had spilled out into the garden.