bill and coo
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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
With never a pausing, They bill and coo, And twitter gently:-- "Do thou love, too!"
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
Capacious dovecote! where carrier-pigeons and fantails and croppers, intermingled with the more ordinary, bill and coo, ruffle and smoothen their feathers, and bend their versicolor necks to the same corn.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
"No, not into this hideous hole, perhaps, not into the house of the vihodar, but into a quiet little cot where the doves bill and coo on the gables."
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
