1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
Dowley was in fine feather, and I early got him started, and then adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him hum.
1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
The little actress was in fine feather.
2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations, →ISBN:
Yes, indeed, Miss Jane, you look in fine feather! I couldn't be more pleased.
