roe's

Between the couch and the fountain was a table on which were a tender white loaf, kneaded with roe's milk, and a goblet of red wine, sweet as a morning dream.

Roumanian Fairy Tales Various

Her feet agile as the roe's, her eyes lustrous and defiant, her hair dishevelled, her bosom heaving, her arms symmetrical as sculpture, but glowing with the roseate warmth of youth, the virgin still rejoiced, as it were, in the tumult of the dance.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

From the navel hung a great white object, like the traditional roe's egg of the Arabian Nights.

Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

He had never, however, seen anything like the De Willoughby claimants -- big Tom telling his straightforward story with his unsanguine air, the attractive youngster adding detail with simple directness, and the girl, Sheba, her roe's eyes dilated with eager interest hanging upon their every word.

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Her great roe's eyes stared at him through big, welling tears of agony.

His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

As they went on he realised that he need not even watch the path before her because she knew it so well and her step was as light and firm as a young roe's.

Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Before Grace had answered somebody else came to the door below -- a foot-fall light as a roe's.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Some held the cause of the return of youth to them and the ceasing of hoariness from them to be that they had heated the pot with arrow-wood, whilst others would have it that it came of eating the young roe's flesh; and this is indeed a wonder of wonders.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

So they made towards it and drawing near, found that it was a roe's egg and fell on it with axes and stones and sticks, till they uncovered the young bird and found it as it were a firm-set mountain.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

He was once cast upon an island, where he abode a long while and returning thence to his native country, brought with him the quill of the wing-feather of a young roe, whilst yet unhatched and in the egg; and this quill was big enough to hold a skinful of water, for it is said that the length of the young roe's wing, when it comes forth of the egg, is a thousand fathoms.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879