dovelike
Example Sentences
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“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2015
Reason for these amenities was that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had sent Il Duce a dovelike message on the Spanish question.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Henry James, an American girl abroad was a dovelike creature, all too easily undone by the serpentine charms of Old World society.
From Time Magazine Archive
As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the lovely moon that lovelike Hovered over the wandering, tired Earth, her bosom grey and dovelike, Hovering beautiful as a dove….
From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
