cooing
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Cooing contentedly, the little girl toddled out the front gate and started down the road.
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Minneapolis Amphibious Cooing Sirs: I note that the word "pigeons" contains the letters "g" and "e" placed consecutively, but your sentence construction connotes the idea that the letters "G.I." should probably be used in substitution.
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To distinguish which are the Males and Females among Pigeons, it is chiefly known by the Voice and Cooing; the Female has a small weak Voice, and the Male a loud and deep Voice.
From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Bradley, Richard
Interminable lines of truck-mounted guns rattle along, each great gun festively named, as for instance, "The Siren," or "Baby" or "The Peach" or "The Cooing Dove."
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
"But what do the papers—what does the Cooing Column say?"
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie