bill and coo
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In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Oho!" he thought, "I've hit upon it at once—this is the cage where these turtles bill and coo.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
"After lunch," Dennison went on, "I discovered some people in an arbour, the bill and coo business, and I fairly peppered them; I am no end of a shot with a peashooter."
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
Gilded ease and jewelled fashion Never own a charm for you; Ye love Nature's truth with passion, Pretty birdlings, bill and coo!
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
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