ringdoves

O ringdoves and roses, O dews and wildflowers, O waving greenwoods and balmy airs of summer!

The History of Pendennis 2006

Children are only led to accept the one after their delectation over the other: let us take care lest our readers skip both; and so let us bring them on quickly — our wolves and lambs, our foxes and lions, our roaring donkeys, our billing ringdoves, our motherly partlets, and crowing chanticleers.

The Newcomes 2006

Some assert that ringdoves and turtle-doves pair and procreate when only three months old, and instance their superabundant numbers by way of proof of the assertion.

The History of Animals 2002

'How beautiful they are --- how very beautiful!' said Clara, speaking of the ringdoves; 'and so gentle too -- they don't fight and squabble like my hens do over a few grains of wheat.'

Aunt Mary Mrs. Perring

Newlove, to see the rabbits, and the ringdoves, and the poultry in their respective habitations.

Aunt Mary Mrs. Perring

But there was little satisfaction in this; the wild pine-leaves and the grapevine-withes supplied the rebels with water, and their plantation-grounds were the wild pine-apple and the plantain groves, and the forests, where the wild-boars harbored and the ringdoves were as easily shot as if they were militia-men.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

More distant, a small wood of filbert trees served as a retreat to the ringdoves who cooed, and the nightingales who chanted the spring.

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

They were weary after their long journey, and soon, talking together softly as ringdoves coo in their nests, both fell asleep.

Folk Tales From Many Lands 1910

A mocking-bird in a tree over by the fence was pouring out showers of notes of liquid love, and ringdoves cooed and softly nestled up under the eaves above my head.

The Golden Bird Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Now the crows are holding vigil, and the ringdoves; and the owl at times utters lament with funeral note.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893