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Updated: May 18, 2025
It is impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that is the aim of life.
There! one has reared herself half way out of the water; another stretches forth a delicate web foot to scratch her ear, as handily as a dog on dry land; and now the drake reflects his purple neck to preen his ruffled wing, and now bad luck to you, Peacock, why did you snort and stamp? they are off like a bullet, and out of sight in an instant.
He led them out to the aviary, where Methuselah, in effect, was sitting on his perch, most tremulous and woebegone. His feathers shuddered visibly; he could no longer preen himself. "Listen to what he says," the Frenchman exclaimed, in a very serious voice. "It is your last, last chance.
Lethargy had succeeded to her disturbed thoughts lethargy that made her look on life through grey spectacles. Instead of setting out for Preen, she walked aimlessly about the town, accompanied by Jill. Presently she went up Church Walk, at the top of which she saw that the church door was open.
I canna' say I preen my faith in sea-bogles an' the like, though there's a mony as claims to ha' seen a' that and waur.
For the fifteen minutes or so that I remained, his mate was perched in another branch of the same tree, not once shifting her position, and doing nothing whatever except to preen her feathers a little. She paid no attention to her husband, nor did he to her. It was a revelation to me that a chickadee could possibly sit still so long.
They do not strut about and preen themselves as who would say: "See what a noble man am I! See how I sacrifice myself for the welfare of society!" The attitude of cant and pose is entirely alien to the spirit of true service. Their delight is in doing, in serving, in producing. But beyond this, they have the faults and frailties of their kind, save one, the sin of covetousness.
Outside the gaunt box of the station, Io, from the saddle sent forth her resonant, young call: "Oh, Ban!" "'Tis the voice of the Butterfly; hear her declare, 'I've come down to the earth; I am tired of the air'" chanted Banneker's voice in cheerful paraphrase. "Light and preen your wings, Butterfly." Their tone was that of comrades without a shade of anything deeper. "Busy?" asked Io. "Just now.
If he is interested in books, it is advertising that made it possible. We handle all his copy I've written a lot of it myself. We have made the Chapman prunes a staple of civilization and culture. I myself devised that slogan 'We preen ourselves on our prunes' which you see in every big magazine. Chapman prunes are known the world over. The Mikado eats them once a week. The Pope eats them.
Even ducks, though living so much in water, dip and scatter cleansing showers over their backs, and shake and preen their feathers as carefully as land-birds. Watching small singers taking their morning baths is very interesting, particularly when the weather is cold.
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