I cannot imagine myself ever being thankful for pigeon feathers or saying "Woo!"

Looking around at the litter of bricks and pigeon feathers, he sees his vision, not the reality.

"My cats would have a ball with that," he said, noting their resemblance to pigeon feathers.

Each year, the town elders gave the pigeon feather to the Stikk family as payment.

Just an umbrella by the stairs, a few muddy footprints and what looked like a single pigeon feather.

"Featherweight" (1968), a folded piece of lead with three pigeon feathers, is expected to bring $12,000 to $18,000.

Over there, the remains of a fire - pigeon feathers in a narrow ashy wreath.

His hair was long and matted, and he had pigeon feathers in it.

I remember stumbling on "Pigeon Feathers," his second (and, for me, finest) book of stories, 30 years ago.

Pigeon Feathers is an early collection of short stories by John Updike, published in 1962.