bill and coo
Example Sentences
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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
In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor.
From Time Magazine Archive
To be brave, handsome, twenty-two; With nothing else on earth to do, But all day long to bill and coo: It were a pleasant calling.
From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace
So do I. She has shown a disposition to bill and coo from the first.
From Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
