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Or how can the delicate plumes borne by some seeds, and giving the wind power to waft them to new stations, be due to any immediate influences of surrounding conditions? Clearly in these and in countless other cases, change of structure cannot have been directly caused by change of function. So is it with animals to a large extent, if not to the same extent.
But the worst of Father Letrado's rulings was that there were to be no more prayers in the kivas, no dancings to the gods nor scatterings of sacred pollen and planting of plumes. Also this is not known, I think that the sacred places where the Sun had planted the seed of itself should be told to the Padres."
We have scripture for it, that he began his capers with the apple; then, why not go on with the brandy, which is but the fiery juice of the apple? At any rate, I am pretty sure I shall hardly ever be able to think of it again with tolerable patience, as long as I live. For, it was that vile filthy poison that cut me out of one of the finest plumes that I ever expected to feather my cap with.
Priests swarmed in the Alcazar, and soldiers belonging to every branch of military service, daily guarded or marched by the palace. On the journey he had met plenty of mules with gay plumes and tassels, oddly-dressed peasants and citizens. Gentlemen in brilliant court uniforms, princes and princesses he saw daily in the court-yards, on the stairs, and in the park of the palace.
The good-natured Nymphs had the helmet, with its dark tuft of waving plumes, all in readiness to put upon his head. And now there happened about as wonderful an incident as anything that I have yet told you.
Who can see the first daffodils of spring without feeling a sort of spiritual festival that the beauty of the flower alone cannot explain? The memory of all the springs of the past is in their dancing plumes, and the assurance of all the springs to come.
As they drew near the great gateway, it was noticed that in spite of the heat of the day every warrior was wrapped to the chin in his gayly colored blanket. The faces of all were streaked with ochre, vermilion, white, and black paint, while from their scalp-locks depended plumes of eagle, hawk, or turkey feathers, indicative of their rank or prowess in battle.
He took great pride in training these men, sent to France for black and white plumes for their caps, and tried to make them present as good an appearance as possible.
This consisted of a number of long, blackish plumes growing out of its occiput, and extending down the back of its neck nearly to the shoulders.
"Has he arrived?" asked Prulliere, entering the room in his Alpine admiral's costume, which was set off by a big sword, enormous top boots and a vast tuft of plumes. "Who d'you mean?" said Simonne, taking no notice of him and laughing into the mirror in order to see how her lips looked. "The prince." "I don't know; I've just come down. Oh, he's certainly due here tonight; he comes every time!"
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