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Sentences ending with doves

Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
You used to tell me I was a Turk,--that my heart was full of pigeon-holes, with accommodations inside for a whole flock of doves. [6]
Midway along the rope she turned, ran back to the cross-shaped trestle at the steeple window, handed the balancing pole to Loni, and received a cage filled with doves. [10]
Can't you let him feed the doves? [5]
I have no doubt you gentlemen are as wise as serpents, and I want you to be as harmless as doves. [6]
Now I am anxious to see what I shall get for my doves. [10]

Sentences containing doves two or more times

Not that Daphne, who is stifling in gold herself, would care about that, but whoever knows life knows--where doves are, doves will fly. [10]

More example sentences with the word doves in them

Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
If my cloak were only not so short; I would like to cover the doves with it. [10]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
I've no doves to shelter, and my skin is thicker than yours. [10]
The maiden heard the old woman's shrill, resounding voice very clearly, but heeded it no more than the cackling of the hens, the screams of the peacocks, and the cooing of the doves in the court-yard. [10]
As soon as she comes, the little brown birds and the doves all fly that way, and look up expectant at her. [4]
Yes, when rage seizes upon me, when my beard begins to tremble, my small share of sense flies away as fast as your doves when you let them go. [10]
The hawks which prey upon doves and hares, the crows and magpies, can thus easily be decimated. [10]
Like a flock of doves scared by the scream of a hawk, like autumn leaves driven before the wind, the multitude dispersed. [10]
But doves are not human creatures, and I know at once what my answer shall be. [10]
Philippus had as much work as he could do, but all his arrangements were made when carrier doves announced that the surprise intended by the Gauls had been completely thwarted, and his son Eumedes was empowered to punish them. [10]
The quickly-won treasure melted like snow in the sun, and returned again like stray doves to their open cote. [10]
It's enough to make you die laughing to see the two middle-aged doves cooing in there. [11]
He carries on love-making and abduction wholesale, and buys water-bearers by the pair, like doves in the market or sandals in a shoe maker's stall. [10]
He had borne for several years the name of Van Duivenbode (messenger-dove), which the city had bestowed on him, together with a coat of arms bearing three blue doves on a silver field and two crossed keys. [10]
The doves are fluttering so violently; they want air. [10]
Look at the flocks of doves fluttering around the ruins; they are seeking their cotes in vain. [10]
The doves now flew swiftly to and fro; but before the third arrived, Eumedes, the commander of the fleet just from Ethiopia, was already on the way to Alexandria with all the troops assembled on the frontier. [10]
After Wilhelm had fed his doves, he went to his room, where he paced restlessly to and fro. [10]
You can easily fancy, that five wives in one house do not live quite so peacefully as five doves in a cage; mine at least carry on an uninterrupted, mortal warfare. [10]
She dropped her eyes and caught sight of a dark stain on the snow-white plumage of the doves in the mosaic pavement at her feet. [10]
Prick up your ears, you little ichneumon--now once more repeat what you are to say in there--do you see where I am pointing with my finger?--to the master or to the lady who shall take the doves from you. [10]
The doves that cooed and clucked, flew away and returned to the cote beside him, could now do as they chose, their guardian neither saw nor heard them. [10]
The aristocratic doves brood badly, and we put their eggs under birds of more ordinary breed. [10]
Whoever shines very brightly and is seen from a distance, is set upon by opponents and envious people, and birds of prey pounce upon the white doves first. [10]
Perfect stillness was around him; the doves even had flown up, and settled on the roof. [10]
In the high arcade a colony of doves is domesticated; and I like to watch them circling about and wheeling round the spires of the over-decorated Theatine church opposite, and perching on the heads of the statues on the facade. [4]

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