But that does no harm in a blonde; a thin blonde is too much like a feather-duster.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
One day when it had just returned from one of these periodical visits, I was startled, but not surprised, to find that Field had appropriated my spotless linen duster to his own inky uses and left his own impossible creation hanging on my hook in its stead.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
You may please to take yourself off now, for I've no time to spend in gossip; and Miss Pinckney began her operations by flapping with a duster the counter of the shop, and taking from the drawers certain boxes of small articles in which she dealt.
"Little Miss Joy"
Emma Marshall