She had had enough of the billing and cooing or gammon and spinach of matrimony, and knew if she could not bring him to book at once, time would not assist her.
The little Siamese was flirting desperately with a vision in white standing near his friend, a Japanese, who, in turn, was listening to the cooing of a clinging bloomer girl.
For the first time, however, his wonderful spirits were dampened, and he was as moody and cross as a child, refusing to be comforted even by Madeleine's cooing voice.
An air of cheerfulness was not long of investing the melancholy Broom--the very swallows twittered more gladly from the window-corners, and there was joy in the cooing of the pigeons on the sunny roof.
The following spring it began to separate itself from its companions, and would fly to the porch, and sit therecooing by the hour every day.
An indescribably wild and desolate spot, redeemed from absolute savagery by the soft cooing of innumerable doves flitting among the fringe of trees which skirted the bank of the stream.
She gave a low laugh of ecstasy, and sitting upright in the long grass, began gently to fondle her prey, cooing as she talked to them, and trying to coax the terrified little prisoners to accept some kisses from her dainty red lips.
Pigeons were cooing near, and several dogs were lying flat out in the shade which the wide eaves of the house afforded.
The clatter of soldiers on their way down to the street came to her ears; the soft cooing of the pigeons, the whirr of sewing-machines from the workroom.
The pigeons, cooing on the window-sill, wakened her early.
More than once she heard him sobbing and wakened to the cooing of the pigeons on the window-sill.
I say, Anna, there's not going to be any billing and cooing or anything of that sort.
The soft cooing of the turtle-dove and of many pigeons, it may be presumed, pleases the female.
After a few seconds, in which he heard the fire and the slow bubbling of the gently boiling water and the cooing of the doves without, under the eaves, the Duchess said: "Listen to me.
At this moment, the window the Duchess looked towards opened part way: it was under the eaves and there must have been a dovecote near, for there came the soft sound of cooing like the call of a young bird.
One by one the birds hushed their twitter and went to rest, and only the softcooing of the pigeons floated down now and then from the lofty belfry.
Even billing and cooing like a couple of pigeons on the roof, however, must come to an end, and after some three weeks of it, the barrister one day discovered that there was a harmonium in the dark arches of the living-room.
Far-off a cuckoo called; a wood-pigeon was cooingfrom the first elm-tree in the field, and how the daisies and buttercups had sprung up after the last mowing!
It was only reasonable and proper that our pair ofcooing doves should acquiesce in his desire.
Far away upon the gentle winds I hear the soft cooing of the Colorado tom-cat, and the thump of the stove lid as it misses the cat and strikes with a hollow, mournful sound against the corral.
From all about came the soft, mournful cooing of wild doves.
Lafe could almost hear the wild doves cooing in the scrub-oak canon.
And I daresay my lady's right, for we've never heard them cooing like this year.
They were at some little distance from the spot her godmother was speaking of, and though the cooing was to be heard, it sounded muffled and less distinct than she had ever noticed it before.
Each bird sat singing to his mate Soft-cooing notes among the trees: The nightingale herself were cold To such as these.
She heard a voice like voice of doves Cooing all together: They sounded kind and full of loves In the pleasant weather.
My mother says that in a year The bird that I've adored Will maybe, lay some eggs and rear A callow, cooing horde.
Peace has a dwelling near a wood Where the cooing pigeons brood, Where the sweet-voiced nightingale Unto the moon her song doth pour, And songsters swell the echoing vale For evermore, for evermore.
We had been among signs of the blacks, too, for five days, but had not seen any thing of them, although we could hear the devils cooing at nightfall, calling to each other.
I call it the Cooing Column, because it's the place where all the doves of society, soiled and clean, get their little grain of personal advertisement.
Any number of anarchists are bred from the Cooing Column!
But what do the papers--what does the Cooing Column say?
That is to say, that he's expected back in town for the 'season,' as the Cooing Column of the paper says.
Swinging smoothly round curve after curve, the noble car running free and cooing in sheer joy of fiery life, as she swooped from height to depth, I, too, felt the joy of life as I had hardly ever felt it before.
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