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In that world of white they seemed even more beautiful: the soft, dove-like blue-grey of his crown, and the rich warm ginger of their upper parts.
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She enters and finds on a bed a book about a dove-like bird that carries her on its wings toward the moon and back to a home “full of light.”
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The gilded angel, whose dove-like wings formed one side of it, could have been the Hunchback of Notre Dame for all he cared.
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My immediate reaction was why didn't the look at the dove-like behavior or Chuck Schumer, Rahm Emmanuel, or Tom Delay for paradigms on how to climb the ladder while being nice.
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She enters and finds on a bed a book about a dove-like bird that carries her on its wings toward the moon and back to a home “full of light.”
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Eider were feeding alongside long-tailed ducks and common scoters, and the drake eiders were in full breeding plumage with their dove-like cooing calls echoing across the open sea.
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She enters and finds on a bed a book about a dove-like bird that carries her on its wings toward the moon and back to a home “full of light.”
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Washingtonians can ponder the new Peace Institute, with its dove-like wings, over the course of the coming year, and ask themselves: Duck or shed?
The architecture of the U.S. Institute of Peace on the mall 2010
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I couldn't marvel at not recognising her earlier, even at the closest quarters; she'd grown, for one thing, filled out admirably, and the brash, hard Mrs Candy was as different from the dove-like Creole as could be, in speech and manner-aye, and nature.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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And one can even imagine how it must have been, the "dove-like" Spirit gliding down, the voice of the Father in the wind.
January 7, 2007: Baptism of Jesus and Reminiscing on the Baptism of Mir Mirtika 2007
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