dove-like

Example Sentences

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Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passion's birth, and infant's play, Dove-like fondness, chaste concession, Glowing dawn of future day!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

A long, slim Dove-like looking bird alighted close to the caterpillar's nest.

From The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)

This is no place to reckon up your crime; Your Dove-like looks were viewed with serpent's eyes.

From Cromwell by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Dear is the message sweet you bind Dove-like to wings of the wafting wind.

From The Coo-ee Reciter by Various

Whom will you accept as husband, If they really come to woo you, As a life-companion woo you, Dove-like in his arms to nestle?

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)