T was for a voyage the young man was meant, As if a Spanish ship were Noah's ark, To wean him from the wickedness of earth, And send him like a Dove of Promise forth.
One day, when he was a boy, he was playing with his hoop near the banks of a deep river, and he spied a dove struggling in the water.
Yes, I was,' he answered, 'but I could not bear that the dove should die.
Where Dove had just come from, and where Mastamho rose from the river (par.
Breaking away from, rising above, all forms, the dove floats at last in the blue sky where no clouds reach.
When I think of Angelina, there comes to me the picture of the spotless dovein the tempest, as she battles with the storm, seeking for some place to rest her foot.
This time he dove behind the base, sliding in a half circle, and as Hanley caught Strickland's perfect throw and whirled with the ball, Reddie's hand slid to the bag.
He dove into the dust, came up with the ball, and feinting to throw home he wheeled and shot the ball to Cogswell, who in turn shot it to the plate to head Rand.
He swung hard on the third and the crippled Ashwell dove for it in a cloud of dust, got a hand in front of it, but uselessly, for the hit was safe.
The Natchez captain dove for it, made a good stop, bounced after the rolling ball, and then threw to Kelly at first.
He covered ground and dove for the bounding ball and knocked it down.
A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth.
Without paying the slightest heed, the dovefinished a wing, ruffled and settled her feathers, and opened her bill in a human-like yawn.
But the killdeer on invisible legs, circling the lake shore, replied instantly; so did the lark soaring above, and the dove of the elm thicket close beside.
A doveflashed across the road and settled in sight on a limb.
And John testified saying, I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
Captain Dove was up in the old wooden pulpit, gazing solemnly down upon his company, who, having stacked their arms in the porch, now sat in the bare pews singing a Sunday-school hymn with great vigour and relish.
I can love others, if I am not beloved," she murmured, and the dove of peace fluttered its white wing over her.
One dark and wintry day, as the child thus sported in the inner glad light and joy of her heart, and Gotleib and Anna as usual were watching the light of her radiance, a beautiful White Dove flew fluttering against the friendly window.
Thus both literally and spiritually the White Dove of innocence and peace dwelt in their midst.
The Dove is the pious diligent Christian; the Raven is the dissolute and difficult to be managed; and the proud, selfish professor is the Eagle.
When the gentleman threw wheat for the Dove on the pavement, the Raven would have a piece of an ear or the foot of a lamb in its beak; and the Eagle was for taking up some little child from the cradle to his nest.
The Dove fed on its own food, and hid herself in the clefts of the rocks, or in the dove-house near the palace.
O better at rest where the crooning dove May sing requiem o'er thy bed, Sweet Robin aflame with love's sign on his breast With quick light footstep tread; While over the sod the Birds of God Their guardian feathers outspread!
Then for Blakeley Oldhurst but the door was stop'd there Then bold Reynard was forc'd to take Staffordshire, Then he crossed the river Dove I declare, And straight for Durintwoods, for great cover was there.
When Cinna saw and heard her the first time, on returning home, he conceived the wish to rear an altar to her in the atrium of his house, and offer a white dove on it.
And meanwhile Hania, that mild, defenceless creature, was among us, like a dove among birds of prey.
In the month of April of the same year, the house-dove also took its flight.
I hope some day you will visit these beautiful scenes, or others as beautiful; and that the house-dove will take its flight to see all the beauties of nature, which he knows so well how to paint.
On a gold ground under three beautiful arches, in the midst of which the Dove hovers amid the Cherubim, Gabriel whispers to the Virgin the mysterious words of Annunciation.
He dove down in his pocket, but could not find it; so I told him he must have the paper, or I would not go with him.
My friend could hardly wait for Jack to say ready before he dove in and grabbed the one with the spot on it, but when he turned it over he saw it was not the one with the boy on it.
Be she meeker, kinder than Turtle-dove or pelican, If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be?
Just then another bird happened to perch above the branch where the dove had her nest.
One day, a sly old fox, passing underneath, began leering at thedove from the corner of his eye, as old men ogle pretty girls at windows.
No sooner had Mathias pressed the dove to his heart than, lo and behold!
The poor dove remained in her nest, mourning over her lost little one, and shuddering as she thought of the morrow.
And the dove laughed in her sleeve to see the fox look so sheepish.
Hughey Oldys sang one piece all alone about flying away on the wings of a dove to find rest.
Then our wearied hearts, like Noah's dove returning to its rest, will fold their wings and nestle fast by the throne of God.
She looks at Mr. Dove and gives that little laugh and runs forward, and he follows her, bowing and bowing.
She got up and took some yellow grains out of a bag on the roof of the dove house.
Nowadays, when one felt with one hand down the sides, it wasn't to come upon a sheep with three legs or a cow that had lost one horn, or a very fat dove out of the Noah's Ark.
To and fro, to and fro over the fine red sand on the floor of the dove house, walked the two doves.
And the dovecame in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
The Cock is France, the Dove is America, Columbia; their union is the epocha when America shall cease to love Britain.
There is a beautiful passage in Holy Writ from which, figuratively, we date the origin of first carrier or messenger: it is that of the dove that went forth from the ark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dove" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
