He said I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …

After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.

It was the conferring of thaumaturgic powers. We can't do it now as rapidly as that.

They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.