From the surface, the Feather case by Incipio looks like the two aforementioned ones.
The feather-bedding that required firemen on diesel engines into the 1970s is gone, and most on-board personnel work hard.
Is there a fashion accessory more maligned, misunderstood or complex than the feather?
Note the artifacts on the feather's edge on the One S sample.
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And the feather-preening factories were mostly staffed with poor immigrant Jewish laborers.
Stein's decision to examine the feather trade through the prism of Jewish history may seem odd at first, but the correlation isn't forced.
Overall, the attention to detail was conspicuous, from the feather-filled duvets and gossamer cotton sheets to heavy oak hangers in the spacious walk-in closet.
Kaschei's efforts to keep his female captives in submission and put Ivan under his spell turn futile once the white-clad hero waves the feather he gained for granting freedom to the firebird.
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The feather's unceremonious fall from a symbol of wealth and elegance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to one of vulgarity--from the hats of fashionable women to the heads of Kewpie dolls--is not only a story of the fickleness of the fashion industry.
This notion that women's natural role as homemakers and mothers gave them a responsibility to act as nature's housekeepers led many socially conservative women to take up environmental activism, campaigning to protect the nation's bird population, which was being decimated by the feather trade, and promoting conservation education in their children's schools.
The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
The fluffy feather beds, overstuffed pillows, rich mahogany furniture and marble bathrooms befit a centuries-old Italian estate.
The reflection of my white cotton underwear neared opacity, realness, and the gold chain with the gold feather glimmered.
And they are unhappy - or can be ditto - over Barnett or, more precisely, the impression that Barnett feather-beds the Scots.
The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.
And the smooth transfer of power after the president passed away is another feather in the Ghana's democracy cap.
If the Democrats go along with the reforms, it will be a feather in the caps of the Republican House.
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He said the Bridgend plant will be the sole global source of the clean energy engine and it was a "real feather in the cap" for Wales.
Finally, the CGI chicken has a feather-ruffling adventure in the year 2059.
Politicians and media are going to tar and feather the company and ride it out on a rail.
Epic in its own way, The Hobbit starts as light as a feather and never manages the level of impending doom that the Lord of the Rings trilogy reached.
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Some of the larger events ask fighters to bring non-feather pillows to mitigate the mess.
"It's just a feather in the cap for this place, " insisted Turner, reacting to Humphrey's comments.
Still, three billion-dollar films would be a nice feather in the cap of the new Disney studio regime.
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So it's a bit of a feather in the cap and a reward for many many years hard work.
Zimmer's victory was a feather in the cap of the teachers union, which had denounced the donations by outside groups as interference.
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