bill and coo
Example Sentences
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Sample: The birds come to their nest; At peace, they bill and coo; The wide world sinks to rest, And so do I And so do you.
From Time Magazine Archive
In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oho!" he thought, "I've hit upon it at once—this is the cage where these turtles bill and coo.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
He and Recta bill and coo like two old fools.
From Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier by Cornelius, M. A.
To be brave, handsome, twenty-two; With nothing else on earth to do, But all day long to bill and coo: It were a pleasant calling.
From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace
