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
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
In the Assembly this week, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky angrily rejected the compromise plan, and just as vituperatively departed from Moscow's usual dovelike cooings at India.
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
No small babe-smiles, my watching heart has seen, To float like speech the speechless lips between; No dovelike cooing in the golden air, No quick short joys of leaping babyhood.
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
