dove-like
Example Sentences
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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)
Other discourses have been from time to time rendered into English, those by Shibata, entitled The Sermons of the Dove-like Venerable Master, being especially famous.
From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot
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
Dove-like lamenting, Be full of repenting, Lift vision supernal To raptures eternal.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
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)
