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
Capacious dovecote! where carrier-pigeons and fantails and croppers, intermingled with the more ordinary, bill and coo, ruffle and smoothen their feathers, and bend their versicolor necks to the same corn.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
You should just see them bill and coo!
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
Whether it is larger bliss to carry sticks or to bill and coo cannot be guessed, and perhaps it does not matter, for every stone in the perfect arch is bearing all the arch.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Ernest Thompson Seton
