Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.

According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

You're jest about the very woman I'm looking for, miss. Lithe—that's what I call you. I kin put you in the way of making your pile, I kin. This is a bonâ-fide offer. No flies on my business!

That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword, […]