penfeathers

Updated: May 26, 2025

Having no other means of making peace with the higher powers, he returned home sorrowful and malcontent, complaining to his confidants, "That every mutation or change in the state had hitherto been productive of some sma' advantage to him in his ain quiet affairs; but that the present had pize upon it! cost him one of the best penfeathers o' his wing."

Sir Walter Scott - The Bride of Lammermoor