sable-feathered

Updated: May 11, 2025

Like some huge and sable-feathered condor, we were slowly drifting down towards the Bridge of Sighs, when a thousand flambeaux flashing from the windows, and down the staircases of the Ducal Palace, turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2