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
Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, who is articulate, attractive and only 44, has virtually ruled himself out of presidential consideration�at least for 1968�with his dovelike stance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without warning, wearing an unbecoming dovelike look, tough, gruff John L. Lewis clumped out of his lair brandishing a proposal for �of all things�labor peace.
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 floated through the dim atmosphere into our consciousness, holding us as in a dream, dovelike and soothing.
From Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Shortall, Katherine
