单词 | ringdove |
例句 | Enters your hostess with two ringdoves perched familiarly on her shoulder. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Yon palace, towering to the welkin blue, Where kings did bow them down, and homage do, I saw a ringdove on its arches perched, And thus she made complaint, �Coo, Coo, Coo, Coo!� The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The ringdove sate silent in the dell; and the wood-quests were gathering into groups. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Linger awhile upon some bending planks 5 That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings, They will be found softer than ringdove's cooings. Graded Poetry: Third Year Now in sight, perchance in hearing Of the melancholy plover, Of the bluebird’s thrilling whistle, Of the redbird’s gentle chirping, Of the blackbird’s noisy chatter, Of the whippoorwill’s soft pleading, And the ringdove’s tender cooing. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. Sauntering along on the new-fallen beechmast, struck by the gleams of a sunset that seemed to be giving satisfaction to the ringdoves overhead, it could not be necessary to prosecute the conversation. When Ghost Meets Ghost But, beneath its loose feathery garments, her body, hardly larger than that of a ringdove, is altogether out of proportion to her long, narrow head and wide-spreading talons. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Up yonder a lark was singing, in adjoining spruce thickets we could hear the croodle of the ringdove, and in the swaying branches of the elms the solemn-looking rooks were already building their nests. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Yet the ringdove could probably vie with any of them. Birds in the Calendar M.B.O.U., one of our greatest authorities, says that its note is lower and more of a querulous murmur than that of the ringdove. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter A lamb stands by her side, and a tame ringdove is perched on her wrist. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls In the pines on the margin of the river the blue ringdoves were busy constructing the rude makeshift that was to serve the purpose of a nest. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The fields are full of all kinds of game, wild cattle, does, deer, stags, bears, turkeys, partridges, parrots, quails, woodcock, wild pigeons, and ringdoves. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver. Birds in the Calendar V Say, shines the Star of Love, From the clear and cloudless sky, The shadowy groves above, Where the nestling ringdoves lie; From the south—the gentle south— Gleams its lone and lucid eye. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith More distant, a small wood of filbert trees served as a retreat to the ringdoves who cooed, and the nightingales who chanted the spring. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. It was very like the hawk perched over and clawing the ringdove she has struck down. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 The former gave the responses in the temple of Ammon, and the latter in the oracle of Dodona. ... beach or lime, Or that Thessalian growth, In which the swarthy ringdove sat, And mystic sentence spoke. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The ringdove occasionally rears a nestling in captivity, but it does not seem, at any time of life, to prove a very attractive pet. Birds in the Calendar It cooed and sang to him at times like the soft ringdove calling to its mate, and, at times again, it gurgled and piped like a thrush happy in the sunlight. Here are Ladies Can you keep the bee from ranging Or the ringdove's neck from changing? The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Far off the little owl cried; in the thick thorn-brake the lark and finches sang; the ringdove moaned; the yellow bees were flitting round the springs. Platform Monologues Their coo is not in any sense tuneful; yet it has a pleasant association; for the ringdove is pre-eminently the bird of the woods and forests, and rightly named the wood-pigeon. Nature Near London A mocking-bird in a tree over by the fence was pouring out showers of notes of liquid love, and ringdoves cooed and softly nestled up under the eaves above my head. The Golden Bird Of birds of passage, dormice, snakes, bats, swallows, quails, ringdoves, stare, chaffinch, hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, crossbill, rails and cranes. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Now the crows are holding vigil, and the ringdoves; and the owl at times utters lament with funeral note. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The noonday chime had ceased—she did not know Who watched her, while her ringdoves fluttered near: While, under the green boughs, in accents low She sang unto herself. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Pigeons and ringdoves, partridges and hares seem to be plentiful "as blackberries in September." A Cotswold Village "These Nightingales will in due time become ringdoves," sneered Punch. Essays in Rebellion ‘Very well, thankee, uncle,’ returned Mr. Sempronius, who had just appeared, looking something like a ringdove, with a small circle round each eye: the result of his constant corking. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The siskin and the ringdove vied with each other to do them pleasure, all day long their music rejoiced ear and soul. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted. My Antonia As though by magic butterflies appeared basking upon the rain-shattered lily blooms; bright birds flitted from tree to tree, ringdoves began to coo. The Ghost Kings The sparrow has a nest of hay, With feathers warmly lined; The ringdove's careless nest of sticks On lofty trees we find. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Calling with low and plaining note, Most like a ringdove chiding, Or flute faint-heard from distant boat O'er smoothest waters gliding. Paul Clifford — Complete Yet I had a home, and I once had a sire, A mother who granted each infant desire; Our cottage it stood in a wood-embower'd vale, Where the ringdove would warble its sorrowful tale. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas A small mungoose kept peeping out at me from the roots of an old india-rubber tree, and aloft in the branches an amatory pair of hidden ringdoves were billing and cooing to each other. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter It is through him that the turtle is fain to follow her mate; it is through him that my pigeons have learned to caress his ringdoves with fondest endearments. La Fiammetta Only, unlike our metropolitan doves, both the domestic kind and the ringdove in the parks, the Salisbury doves though in the town are not of it. Afoot in England Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. Ulysses Yea, I will laud thee while the ringdove moans, viii. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 Then, after ending his verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 Amongst them the ringdoves nested in hundreds, and on the steep rocks of the precipice the red-necked vultures fed their young. Benita, an African romance Can you keep the bee from ranging, Or the ringdove's neck from changing? The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Then the pigeon and ringdove were devoured to the bones and declared excellent. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Only the keeper sees That, where the ringdove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. The Lost Road O Eternal, I thank thee!" and he groaned and recited these couplets, "I heard a ringdove chanting plaintively, * 'I thank Thee, O Eternal for this misery!' The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 He brought down a white pigeon and a ringdove, which were briskly plucked, hung from a spit, and roasted over a blazing fire of deadwood. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A second well–polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
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