Long thing covered in feathers

Usage examples of boa.

But a way was found, and they became, just as Boa had imagined they would, and just as Daniel had imagined too, lovers.

The three of them would form the Marspan Iowa Consort, to which end Boa had already sewn together a sort of banner of welcome and hung it across the whole width of the music room.

Additionally, Boa had twice spent the holidays with Miss Marspan at her Chelsea flat, being taken about to operas, concerts, and private musicals every night of her visit.

Daniel found this more disconcerting than Boa, who was used to similar equivocations from her father.

This plan of yours to precede Boa to Boston is almost certain to lead to unhappiness for both of you.

Not a very dark secret, since Boa had managed for a week now not to guess despite the broadest hints.

He had given them a sterling service for twelve as a wedding present, which Boa had insisted on cooing over privately, as they were driving to the airport.

He should, as Boa suggested, put the rest out of mind, relax, lie back and enjoy the beginning of what looked to be the endless banquet ahead.

But that would have meant surrendering Boa to her father, an act he could not, would not be driven to.

Teatro had closed early in June to have put aside more than a few dollars, and he was determined not to have recourse to Miss Marspan, who had already assumed the financial costs involved in keeping Boa functionally alive.

First National Flightpaths informed Daniel that the Annex could no longer supply him with the liquid nutrient by which Boa was kept alive.

Until the spirit of the new era reached the Rationing Board and moved them to reconsider the plight of such as Boa, it would not be possible to return her to the dismal wards of the First National Flightpaths annex.

But here he was in his room, with the moonlight coming in at the half-parted curtain and making a ghost of Boa under her single sheet.

By the terms of his agreement with Rey, Boa would be looked after for another year.

Congress, meanwhile, was drawing up a uniform code of laws concerning flight, a code that would certainly see to it that no one would be put in the impossible position Daniel had been in, of being able to keep Boa alive only by resorting to the black market.