Centuries ago, she added, "they used to bring out peacocks in full feather, and peacocks are not even very good to eat."

The majesty of overblown Top-40-aimed rock is in full feather on this triple bill of 1970's stalwarts.

The mandarin in full feather!

The rite itself included various secret rituals, after which the new king took part in several ritual dances in full feathered regalia.

WITH fireworks season approaching, piping-plover madness is in full feather in this privileged playground.

Kate, who had only seen him worried about his father, or being casual at Appledale, had not experienced the glossy splendor of George in full feather.

It showed a stick person lounging in the shade of a striped umbrella - birds in the sky, leaves on the tree, dandelions in full feather.

At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium yesterday fans streamed in, many with rubber axes at the ready, and some in full feather.

Previously known as the Penfield Chiefs with the Mascot of a Native American Indian Chief in full feather head dress.

There was a great ripple in the sky above the hut and down upon the dummy in a squawking, screaming cascade the birds fell in full feathered fury.

The professor took a small woven mat and cloth napkins from the rucksack and spread them out over the carved figure of a Mayan warrior in full feathered dress.

Still wearing their pancake makeup four hours later, they were accompanied to the door of their new home by two American Indians in full feather, who had earlier joined a Tibetan Buddhist monk in a sunrise prayer for their success.

As the aboriginal musician David Hudson, who had displayed great skill on the dijeridoo, an Australian woodwind drone instrument, did a primitive jitterbug with Ms. Johnson, a Native American dancer emerged in full feather to join in.

For instance, when Queen Elizabeth arrived in Stoney Creek, Ontario, five chiefs in full feathered headdress and a cortege of 20 braves and their consorts came to present to her a letter outlining their grievances, but were prevented by officials from meeting with the sovereign.

BIRDS OF PREY, including a peregrine falcon and several varieties of owls, will be in full feather tomorrow at 3 p.m. in Brooklyn, in Prospect Park at the Imagination Playground, near Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue.

Federal and provincial viceroys also met with First Nations leaders for more ceremonial occasions, such as when in 1867 Canada's first Governor General, The Viscount Monk, met with a native chief, in full feathers, amongst some of the first guests at Rideau Hall.

When the stage, suffused with red light, is suddenly awash with a dazzling whirlwind of Indian dancers in full feathered regalia and becomes clouded over when four huge "buffalo" emerge from a mist, the entire hallucinatory episode is no more unreal than the surreal scenes of the victimized hero's life.

"Here comes the other couple Steve, in full feather, with a big bouquet for Kitty, and poor Mac, looking like a gentleman and feeling like a martyr, I'm sure," said Rose, watching one carriage turn in as the other turned out of the great gate, with its arch of holly, ivy, and evergreen.

"I have never seen him in full fig before."

She was in full fig, fists on her hips, foot tapping, eyes all but glowing.

It had been an order, delivered by the Amyrlin Seat in full fig.

"These people want me to symbolize Brede, and so I'm going to do it in full fig.

With a prismatic palette, the artist paints her subjects in full fig, which often means little more than a headdress and jewelry.

Fussell turned up at his first Scout meeting in full fig right down to the official oxfords - and got laughed at.

Then the door bangs open and there's our friend in full fig - purple dashiki, orange turban all covered with those funny signs.

Elizabeth is the subject of numerous portraits, not a few of them anonymous, like the one in this display that shows her, again, in full fig.

It was as funny as Hermann Goering in full fig, and probably as deadly.

* * * "The first person I ran into was an English dragoon in full fig," I said.

The result evokes, on the one hand, an English judge in full fig and, on the other hand, Robert Rauschenberg's goat encircled by a tire.

Rob is nowhere when I'm in full fig'; and Ted took the stage with a tragic stalk, like Hamlet in a tail-coat and choker.

Ursula Hollis had dressed like a Pakistani immigrant in full fig whose only concession to the English climate was an ill-cut jacket in mock fur.

A moment went by, and then the door was drawn open by a buxom smiling older nun in full fig; not one of the ones Dortmunder had met his earlier time here.

Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him.

Travelling in full fig on the Tube to the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral, Lord West of Spithead was asked about his uniform by a schoolboy.

The food was opulent but of the play-it-safe variety - cuts from the roast of the day, wheeled round on a trolley by a chef in full fig and ceremoniously displayed with a flourish of the vast silver cover.

This may be deduced from certain traits in his work, including sensitivity to details like the asymmetry of a mouth and a feeling for negative space, which is particularly apparent in the figure of the singer Ruth Fernandez in full fig.

I chanced upon the ceremony several years ago, and saw two of the new year's lambs, garlanded with white and red roses, trot up a scarlet carpet (symbolizing martyrdom) to the altar where the priest, in full fig, awaited them.

This was Apollo in full fig, his curls skilfully arranged to hide a well-whitened patch over the eye, his handsome legs correctly poised, and his gifted fingers about to draw divine music from the silvered gridiron which was his lyre.

She was in full fig; jacket, ruffled shirt, kilt, plaid fastened over her shoulder with a brooch, down to the flat Scots bonnet with antlers-and-moon clasp and raven feather and the little sgian dhu knife tucked into her right stocking.

The majesty of overblown Top-40-aimed rock is in full feather on this triple bill of 1970's stalwarts.

WITH fireworks season approaching, piping-plover madness is in full feather in this privileged playground.

BIRDS OF PREY, including a peregrine falcon and several varieties of owls, will be in full feather tomorrow at 3 p.m. in Brooklyn, in Prospect Park at the Imagination Playground, near Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue.