The situation or size of the dovecot will necessarily depend on convenience; but there is one point which must invariably be observed, and that is, that every pair of pigeons has two holes or rooms to nest in.
Yes, I was walking in the garden at the Dovecot after breakfast, considering this, when I came upon Lucy Gerard herself, and flight became impossible to me, being mortal.
Epistolary communication by hand was rendered impracticable, on the part of the baronet, by the removal of the Dovecot household to town.
Mr. Long arrived at theDovecot late that same afternoon, in a state of great anxiety.
There's a fine view of the dovecot though," said Katrine.
I'll be up in half a jiff," replied Mr. Freeman, laying his painting traps on the dovecot steps.
Sidonie often went to play in the beautiful gravelled garden, and was able to see at close range the carved blinds and the dovecot with its threads of gold.
Always on the road between Asnieres and Paris with an amorous message under her wing, that odd carrier-pigeon remained true to her owndovecot and cooed for none but unselfish motives.
For it had come to pass that while my investigations into the mystery of Dovecot House were in progress I had by chance got my foot in Cannon House.
I was eagerly looking out for the first white house, and when we were coming to it I cried out, "Now we are coming to Dovecot House, let's go slow and look at it.
And near it was a large dovecot with a cloud of pigeons usually flying about it, and we came to calling it Dovecot House.
Oddly enough it was but a short time after seeing the old man at his gate that I had my first sight of an inmate of Dovecot House.
I was mightily pleased that they, too, had felt the attractions of my Dovecot House as a place where a man, whatsoever his individual taste, might find a happy abiding-place.
First of all, we saw the door of the dovecot wide open.
Endeavoring to console ourselves by petting our four remaining birds, we could not forget this disappointment, and all day long the dovecot remained the center of attraction.
Late in the day Franz and his mother went out to provide for supper, but the child returned directly, exclaiming that we must hasten to the dovecot to see something beautiful.
Whether the semi-domesticated dovecot pigeon is more fertile than the wild rock-pigeon C.
So our industrial teacher decided to move the dovecot bodily to another place.
The dovecot was supported, as I said, by four great posts sunk in the ground.
The dovecot would hold firm by its own weight, and the builders had not seen the necessity of wasting nails and strength.
Elliot are white, slightly feathered on the feet, with the feathers on the head reversed; and they are rather smaller than the rock or dovecot pigeon.
We have seen that Colonel King at Hythe stocked his dovecot more than twenty years ago with young wild birds taken at the Orkney Islands, and since this time they have greatly multiplied.
Colonel King, of Hythe, stocked his dovecot 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 dovecot is rather dull in the winter, and the doves are somewhat moped; but even then they have the church to decorate, and the sentiment of Christmas to enliven them.
You did well to defend the honor of a woman; and as I am going to the Red Dovecot myself, I shall know if you have told me the truth.
Here chance led me to take up my abode in an old farm-house--a long building of one story, with dovecot raised above the roof, and massive walls that kept the rooms cool even in the sultry afternoons.
On the sea side of the House are the stables and what looks like a walled garden, and beyond them what seems to be open ground with an old dovecot marked, and the ruins of Huntingtower keep.
The House was now behind them on their right rear, and as they topped the crest they had a glimpse of an ancient dovecot and the ruins of the old Huntingtower on the short thymy turf which ran seaward to the cliffs.
I slipped across the space, got to the back of the dovecot and prospected a way of ascent.
On the dovecot I was almost on a level with the tree-tops, and could see what lay beyond.
Then they came outside, and stood just below the dovecot arguing fiercely.
Peeping out, I saw that between me and the dovecot was a piece of bare cobbled ground, where no footmarks would show.
When I looked from the dovecot I could see far away a blue line which I knew was the sea, and I grew furious to think that our enemies had this secret conning-tower to rake our waterways.
Those lentonite fumes had fairly poisoned me, and the baking hours on the dovecot hadn't helped matters.
The hawk will be taken up on the dead bird, and the live one liberated or returned to its dovecot none the worse for its perilous adventure.
Where formerly were pigsties is now a terrace walk, and the quaint old circular dovecot has been carried off bodily and planted where it balances to best advantage.
They had been walking together on the hill, and on their return to the Dovecot he had insisted, "in his old imperious way," on coming in to tea.
Miss Ailie was not the only person at the Dovecotwho admired Tommy.
But how did you get to the top of the dovecot when the door into the house was bolted and fast?
Up with you to the dovecot and see how my turnips are getting on.
In the top of the tower was a dovecot, and on the top of the dovecot was a flat roof.
She scolded him for sleeping too long, sent him upstairs, with a lot of cross words after him, to go to the top of the dovecot to see how those turnips were getting on.
How did you get on to the top of the dovecot when the door into the house was bolted and fast?
The old man did his best, and by evening the top of the dovecot was covered with earth, and he had sown it with turnip seed.
So the old man laboured up and down with his tired old bones, and covered the top of the dovecot with good black earth.
Next day, and the day after that and every day, the old woman scolded the old man till he went up to the dovecot to see how those turnip seeds were getting on.
Early in the morning the old woman woke the old man and told him to go up to the dovecot and see how those turnips were getting on.
And at last there came a day when the old man came down from the dovecot and said: "The turnips are doing finely--quite big they are getting; but all the best ones have been stolen away.
Further down the lane were the doors of the courtyard at the back of the house where the outhouses and the stables and the dovecot were; and beyond the courtyard there was a paddock, and you would have thought that was enough.
She only came down from the dovecot when she was frightened of her husband coming there to look for her.
You will be able to see the tower of the dovecot from the top of the rocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dovecot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
