Crossword-Solution: PLUMAGES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But if mine unappeasèd cicatrices Might get them lawful ease; Were any gentle passion hallowed me, Who must none other breath of passion feel Save such as winnows to the fledgèd heel The tremulous Paradisal plumages; The conscious sacramental trees Which ever be Shaken celestially, Consentient with enamoured wings, might know my love for thee.

Some of the phenomena surpassed anything Wilhelmina ever saw: such floods and rows of resplendent people crowding in to dinner; and she could not but contrast the splendor of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct "blue coat, white linen gaiters," and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.

When the difference between the two plumages is slight it may perhaps be attributed, as already remarked, to the direct action of the conditions of life.

There is also a great difference with many birds in the length of time during which the two annual plumages are retained; so that the one might come to be retained for the whole year, and the other completely lost.

But this view cannot be extended to the many waders, whose summer and winter plumages differ very little in colour.