Doves definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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When they saw a human being they flew over to her, as if she would set them right There had been many flocks of doves at the manor when her parents lived there, for the doves were among the creatures which her father had taken under his special care.

—The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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The palm-groves are the favourite resort of the doves, as poetical as natural. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
Thus was I running; thus unrelentingly was he pursuing me; as the doves are wont to fly from the hawk with trembling wings, and as the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves, I held out in my course even as far as Orchomenus,[74] and Psophis,[75] and Cyllene, and the Mænalian valleys, and cold Erymanthus and Elis. — The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
Besides these, monkeys peeped inquisitively at the hunters from among the trees, and myriads of turtle-doves were seen in the covers. — Black Ivory
Two snakes and a large scorpion killed Turtle-doves, touracoos, thrushes, finches, and other birds of beautiful plumage become numerous 6th_.--Violent storm of thunder. — Six Months at the Cape
She pressed against him like the doves, clasping her hands together. — The Black Cross