| 单词 | dovecote |
| 例句 | I leaned back in the chair, fighting the urge to smile like a tomcat in a dovecote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I used to play up there by the dovecotes,” she said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s this design for a dovecote that Dad and I have been looking at in our design book for years, but we never had the guts to try it before. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There was another castle half-way up the single mast, which gave it the appearance of a dovecote. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not a huge dovecote for actual doves, but it’s big and it has four floors for four different families and this cool conical roof covered in little handmade roof tiles. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Dee looks around and spots the nearly finished dovecote on the bench. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z They were always taking pictures of the garden bling they noticed, whether benches or dovecotes, and in time amassed approximately 10,000 slides. A new compendium of garden elements The best-known of these, “February,” from circa 1412-1416 and usually attributed to the more rustic of the Dutch Limbourg brothers, Paul, is exquisite: the snow resting on the sheep pen, the dovecote, the beehives. What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Beckoning to be explored, Tinos is dotted with villages, hidden inland to protect them from pirates during a bygone age, and an unusual network of 18th-century dovecotes perched on hillsides and above ravines. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Closer to the house are delightful flower and vegetable gardens as well as an enchanting dovecote—all completed before Kent. Designer Brian Sawyer Visits England's Stately Homes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z All of the narrators work in the dovecote. 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z The Victorian dovecote in the eaves of the coach house may even remain home to the family of jackdaws now living there. At Her Home in Suffolk, Olivia Laing Finds Fresh Inspiration 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It was eleven stories with a multitude of single rooms, very much like a dovecote, or, as everyone eventually suggested, a columbarium. “Chaunt” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But his latest, Manhunt, which premieres on Netflix on May 4th, has a moment when a careening car approaches a dovecote filled with birds ready for their big moment. John Woo’s Manhunt is a joyous parody of his action classics 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Her question reflected a conventional Republican gripe, namely that the State Department is a cooing dovecote, full of apologists for Abroad. The president has had enough of being challenged over foreign policy 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Surrounding the sanctuaries were mud-brick houses several storeys high, some with dovecotes on their roofs. Drowned worlds: Egypt's lost cities 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The window was open, and there was a dovecote nearby. Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The Surrey village of Westcott pushes this thatch-topped envelope by adding a thatched dovecote bearing a weather vane on top to the mix. The curious world of street furniture 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It caused fluttering in very many interested dovecotes. Are British Muslim Schools Teaching Hatred? In the garden of his country estate, Darwin built a dovecote. Pigeons, a Darwin Favorite, Carry New Clues to Evolution 2013-02-04T18:59:03Z "Yes," said I, "we just live, nothing abnormal, nothing cruel and extravagant—just natural—like doves in a dovecote." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The terror of the nuns may be imagined, and running to the cell where Clare lay ill in bed they cowered round her "like frightened doves when the hawk has stooped upon their dovecote." The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z In the broad court there were two dovecotes. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z Above the walls rose a gigantic roof with four chimneys in the middle, and two dovecotes at the gables. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Thomas Jefferson designed a grand dovecote for Monticello, complete with pillars. Pigeons, a Darwin Favorite, Carry New Clues to Evolution 2013-02-04T18:59:03Z Though he stood on the windward side, he still coughed occasionally from the smoke that threaded upward, over the "dovecote" and toward the hill above. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Then she added playfully: "What's ruffled the atmosphere of our—dovecote?" The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z 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. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z “I allude to the desecration of dovecotes, Don Jorge, and the introduction therein of strange flesh, for purposes neither seemly nor convenient.” The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z I had in my dovecote a beautiful pigeon—its plumage turned to all imaginable colors. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The citadel above us is Jacques's personal residence, what he likes to call his 'dovecote.' Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z By no means, for their intimacy soon came to an end, and news reached the private apartments at Hampton Court that the dove which had left that dovecote had further besmirched her beautiful plumage. A Double Knot There was a flutter and a chatter in the literary dovecote, and at length one of the starry ones—Mrs. Ellet—concluded it to be her bounden duty to inquire into the matter. The Home Life of Poe Should you come to my village, you will doubtless taste them, Don Jorge, at the venta where you will put up, for I suffer no dovecotes but my own within my district. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z But, alas! my dove flew away—she flew away from my dovecote. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Below him a string of prisoners, still shackled, was being led from the dungeon beneath the "dovecote." Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z There is a dovecote in the yard, so they eat the pigeons which eat the farmers' crops, who in turn forget to pay their rents. The Firebrand We jostled the loungers in a low-caste drinking shop and pushed on to a dark stair that rose like the ladder of a dovecote. Where the Pavement Ends The head could also be made use of, I should think, for the poultryman, my very good friend who lives on the square, said to me secretly that it would make a wonderful dovecote. Michelangelo That all sisters are doves—without mates—of one feather, In holy tranquillity living together, Whose dovecote the bigots have found a mare's nest in, Because its arrangements are rather clandestine. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) There is a dovecote, yonder is a cistern, beyond are the cypress and the evergreens that she loves. Mary Magdalen Tellingly sadly, the convent bell hung as silent as an empty dovecote, forcing the penniless Fathers to call to matins with an almond wood clapper!… Letters from my Windmill In a corner of the garden, at the angle of the parapet, rises that classic emblem of rural gentility, the pigeonnier, the old stone dovecote. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Pleasant little villas and old-time comfortable farm-houses are dotted all about with their dovecotes and outbuildings. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel There’s always hell enough in Sonora, but it’s a dovecote to what it’s bound to be before the end comes, and so, it’s no place for white men’s wives.” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Within were dovecotes and cisterns, the emblems of fecundity, and a block of stone which she did not describe. Mary Magdalen Discovery made when, six or seven years ago, he fluttered the decorous dovecotes of the Royal Academy by delivering at its annual banquet a memorable speech on condition and prospects of Navy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 He pulled open the whitewashed wooden door of the dovecote. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Here, at Holmwood Park, is one of those ancient yet still populous dovecotes that contribute so much to enhance the beauties of English rural scenery. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The rest was old red brick—I think I remember a great dovecote—and a quiet look of age and disuse. Highways and Byways in Surrey Life in the young Minthrops’ dovecote soon settled down into a glorified routine. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 A few dovecotes, the cupolas of which are whitewashed, and one or two minarets striped with red and white, alone impart to the antique appearance of that city the modern aspect of Islamism. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Fair little wing�d cooing dove, Thou'st fluttered down from thy far dovecote, Awhile to nestle in earth's sweet grove. Song-waves There was a low tower at the south-west corner, dovecote shaped, where the pigeons made their nests and brought forth their young. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria In the dovecote, however many birds it may contain, the breeder can be always sure as to the parentage of the young which he is rearing. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Are you the author of that story that fluttered the dovecotes? The House of Souls Many are so inconsiderable as to look almost like dovecotes. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II "Alas!" replied Brotteaux, "the doves flock to the bright new dovecote and light no more on the ruined tower." The Gods are Athirst And so sober was she that Jud, who was driving her to the dovecote on the hill, looked around inquiringly more than once, and finally ventured to ask, "Have you caught cold, too?" The Lilac Lady It were good enough for the dove to sit on the pigeon-house, and preen her feathers, and coo, and take decorous little flights between the dovecote and the ground whereon her corn lieth. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century But: it did flutter the dovecotes, and the St. James's Gazette and I parted. The House of Souls She wore the dovecote, and over it an open circlet of gold and gems, to mark her royal rank. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time The dovecote was a head-dress, a kind of round caul of gold or silver network, secured by gold or silver pins fastened in the hair. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him Some brought white bread, some black, some a pigeon or two from the lord's dovecotes, and every one his bottle of wine. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Am I meek pigeon to be kept in a dovecote? The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century The day following he laid his plans to meet and speak with Mrs. Brackett and the militant Susanna thereafter became as peaceful, so far as he was concerned, as a dovecote in spring. Fair Harbor The garden, orchard, mill, oven, dovecote, cider-press, &c., were all within the walled enclosure, for the abbeys were not merely convents dedicated solely to devotional exercises. Brittany & Its Byways “Would my Lady think proper to allow a dovecote with silver pins?” A Forgotten Hero Not for Him To W. M. Home, home from the horizon far and clear, Hither the soft wings sweep; Flocks of the memories of the day draw near The dovecote doors of sleep. Poems of To-Day: an Anthology So he brought in his bills, made his speeches, fluttered the dovecote of many a prejudice and many an interest, was the idol of the people, and never had a quiet hour. Half a Hero A Novel Home, home from the horizon far and clear, Hither the soft wings sweep; Flocks of the memories of the day draw near The dovecote doors of sleep. Later Poems To eastward and to westward Have spread the Tuscan bands; Nor house nor fence nor dovecote In Crustumerium stands. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 The tombs of the Ababdeh sheikhs have melon-shaped domes, and there are endless dovecotes, chiefly made of broken old amphoræ built into walls. Southern Arabia He took a prominent part in an unsavoury scandal that fluttered mid-Victorian dovecotes, when a Bond Street "beauty specialist," known as Madame Rachel, was clapped into prison for swindling a wealthy and amorous widow. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert The dovecote race, a gentle nation, Made offers of their mediation. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress There is a dovecote just opposite the window, and doves promenade up and down upon the roof of it, and fly about, and sometimes whirr down on the sill itself. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians It is said to have had twenty-four brass spouts, seven windows, and in its upper storey a dovecote, the roof of which was covered with lead. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See At first he only saw the blank wall of a cowshed and two wooden structures like old-fashioned dovecotes, connected by a high fence in which there was no gate. The Mermaid A Love Tale When the announcement appeared in print there was much fluttering among the Mayfair dovecotes. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert To eastward and to westward have spread the Tuscan bands; Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote in Crustumerium stands. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Barrie's room was small, and looked over a dovecote. The Heather-Moon To eastward and to westward Have spread the Tuscan bands; Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote In Crustumerium stands. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys The dovecote was quite cold, for the autumn days were running out, and they lighted a hearth fire. Bohemian Days Three American Tales Thither the airy folk came flying every evening as surely as doves to the dovecote. The Well of Saint Clare In the midst of that rose-crowned June and July, in the height of my innocent happiness, mamma fell upon us, as a hawk swoops upon a dovecote, dividing a cooing pair. Infelice "Let us stop at that dovecote for a few minutes and then we will continue our journey, so that we may reach the seashore by dawn tomorrow." Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet The enormous number of dovecotes was still a great nuisance, and the pigeons were reckoned to eat 6,000,000 quarters of grain annually. A Short History of English Agriculture I grieve you, dear Nanna," said she in a softened tone of voice, "I do not imagine you to be more than a dove which is still fostered within the dovecote. The Home in the Valley I dream of a dovecote with a tiled roof, and straightway build it; I picture a gallery and a chapel and a library away from the clack of tongues, and behold there it is. The King's Achievement But the pride of the garden was its dovecote, formed of a large cider-barrel on a mast. Corporal Sam and Other Stories They went into a deserted dovecote, where they found nothing but a basin full of water and a basket full of vetch. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet They looked like homing birds, settling in dovecotes of the masts and rigging. Out To Win The Story of America in France It stands in a farm-yard, and the nave made an excellent barn and the steeple a dovecote. Vanishing England When it miscarried a flutter was caused in the dovecotes of the illuminated. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference It came through the open window from the garden, and almost as he sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes it warned him that something serious was amiss with his dovecote. Corporal Sam and Other Stories But it seemed as if my head had been cleared like a room when a window is opened; memories were beginning to come back like doves winging their way home to the dovecote. Atlantida There were hundreds of new four-footed friends in the park and palace; and hundreds of two-footed friends in the trees and dovecotes. John of the Woods The Pigeons, deluded by this show of reason, admitted him to the dovecote as their king. The Talking Beasts The circular dovecote belonging to monastic times is carefully preserved. Evesham All our thoughts were fair; Our simple hearts, as dovecotes full of doves, Made home and nest for them. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Who, "like an eagle in a dovecote," then Will flutter them and discipline AUFIDIUS? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 As the music begins to stop and die away, the pigeons should return to their dovecote, and when the last note sounds they should all be settled again. My Book of Indoor Games The Kite and the Pigeons A Kite, that had kept sailing around a dovecote for many days to no purpose, was at last forced by hunger to have recourse to stratagem. The Talking Beasts Unfastening the inner end, I brought it forward and lashed it to a post supporting a dovecote on the river wall. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales So he entered the dovecote, and began preparations for a general slaughter. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Her "Evelina," with its somewhat starched gentility and simpering sensibility, was once a book to conjure with; it fluttered the literary dovecotes in a way not so easy to comprehend to-day. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities The bold avowal which fluttered the dovecotes of Cambridge would have sounded like the crash of doom to the cautious old tenants of the Hanover aviary. Ralph Waldo Emerson A mound to the north-east is supposed to be the site of a calvary, and until quite recently a "colombarium" or dovecote was allowed to stand which contained homes for over three thousand birds. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End The kitchen was repaired, then the stable, the dovecote, the poultry-house; the garden fences were restored; also those of the field. Strange True Stories of Louisiana That I will," was the cheerful reply; "and when I am admitted into the dovecote, I shall kill more of you in a day than the kite did in a century. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull It seems to me you are very much like the fox looking at the dovecote. Without Dogma The Pigeons in a certain dovecote were persecuted by a Kite, who every now and then swooped down and carried off one of their number. Aesop's Fables; a new translation He privily confided to me that it would make an excellent dovecote. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Gr. &?; a dovecote, a kind of verbena, fr. &?; a dove, pigeon; cf. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q I heard them fiddling with the door of the dovecote and for one horrid moment I fancied they were coming up. The Thirty-Nine Steps Suddenly, running round the dovecote, came A young man naked, breathless, through the dawn, Florid with haste and wine; it was Hipparchus. Georgian Poetry 1911-12 So they invited a Hawk into the dovecote to defend them against their enemy. Aesop's Fables; a new translation Now the dovecotes were fluttered by a new destroyer—a gentlemanly vulture, whose suave accents and perfect manners were fatal to the unwary. Birds of Prey Also it had yards for fowls, ducks, geese, guinea-fowls, and peacocks, arranged before the confiscation and allowed since to run down, but still productive and fairly well-filled with birds, as were the big dovecotes. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire He climbed up the ladder, in three steps and as carefully as he could, to the dovecote. The Path of Life Virginia leaned over the railing to look past the car and the dovecote station shading her eyes to shut out the snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks. A Fool for Love Frank Greystock escaped from the dovecote before Lady Fawn had returned. The Eustace Diamonds And now that he and Gilfoyle had an "open sesame" to the dovecote they grew impatient with delay. We Can't Have Everything This poem received scant notice from the reviewers, who had pounced like hawks on a dovecote upon Tennyson's first two modest volumes. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World The dovecote became a pale-grey twilight thing, with drab and black patches here and there. The Path of Life In his chance visits to that place, young Fielding appears to have become desperately enamoured of her, and to have sadly fluttered the Dorset dovecotes by his pertinacious and undesirable attentions. Fielding The coming visit had been spoken of almost with awe, and there was a general conviction in the dovecote that an evil thing had fallen upon them. The Eustace Diamonds Not far off stood the manor house, with its hall where the manor courts were held, and its farm-buildings, dovecote, and usually its mill for grinding the corn of the tenants. The Coming of the Friars They belonged to the middling-sized Doll with boots, who had clambered up to the dovecote, and had lost her balance in the gutter. The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales Then, too, his own crops might be eaten with impunity by doves from the noble dovecote or trampled underfoot by a merry hunting-party from the manor-house. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Afterward, the pigeons were all to be presented to Lady Alazais for her dovecote in the barbarous land to which she was exiled. Masters of the Guild What a lover to fall suddenly from the heavens into such a dovecote! He Knew He Was Right It may well be imagined that "The King" made a stir in literary and social circles, and quite noticeably fluttered the dovecotes of conventionality and conservatism. Björnstjerne Björnson, 1832-1910 Late at night he arrived at his own dovecote, tired and hungry, but happy to be safe at home again. Fifty Famous Fables Thy comrades are sleeping; go sleep thou with them.——The thought of the dove that has suggested this fairy picture of the dovecote. Such Is Life Here stood a neat tavern, the Blue Anchor, with its dovecotes in old English style, looking out for many a year over the river with its fleet of small boats. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Dovecote-pigeons are those which are kept in dovecotes in a semi- domesticated state; for no special care is taken of them, and they procure their own food, except during the severest weather. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 Here was a rabbit hutch, built of old boards, and familiar enough to the veteran's eyes; and a dovecote, which loomed now but a deeper shadow among shadows. Long Live the King! Home, home from the horizon far and clear, Hither the soft wings sweep; Flocks of the memories of the day draw near The dovecote doors of sleep. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 The mother perceived that they needed girls to play with; and as there was no scarcity of girls, the house hummed like a dovecote in spring. The Day's Work - Volume 1 Hurree Babu came out from behind the dovecote washing his teeth with ostentatious ritual. Kim The accurate Neumeister asserts that when dovecotes are crossed with pigeons of any other breed, the mongrels are extremely fertile and hardy. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 Owls have taken possession of the dovecote, but they are hereditary owls and must not be disturbed. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon And sometimes, also, do I find a fugitive creature in my dovecote, which is alien to me, and trembleth when I lay my hand upon it. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb factory, and is prepared for either eventuality. Reginald in Russia and other sketches He is in the quarters behind the dovecote.' Kim Colonel King, of Hythe, stocked his dovecote with young wild birds which he himself procured from nests at the Orkney Islands; and several specimens, kindly sent to me by him, were all plainly chequered. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 In the chicken houses and dovecotes, there was not a single bird left. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse They are rather smaller birds than the wild rock-pigeon, about the size of the common dovecote pigeon, white and mottled, slightly feathered on the feet, with the beak just perceptibly shorter than in the rock-pigeon. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 We have seen that Colonel King at Hythe stocked his dovecote more than twenty years ago with young wild birds taken at the Orkney Islands, and since then they have greatly multiplied. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 In these four birds the beak differed slightly in length, but in all it was decidedly shorter, more massive, and stronger than in the wild rock-pigeon from the Shetland Islands, or in the English dovecote. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 |
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