I have an easier subject for you round at the back," said Miss Aubrey, leading the way to the rear of the house, where a timbered dovecote stood in the old paved courtyard.
For instance, when one or more pigeons arrive at the dovecote without despatches, and with the loss of some tail feathers, it is a sign that the troops have been attacked.
Two began to dispute, and the dispute increased; one or two more joined in, then several others, all of them at last: the dispute was about the disturber of the dovecote who had been at the door.
In the place of the dovecote he made a school-house, and permission was given to the people of the towns and villages within reach to send their children to be instructed under his supervision, and without payment or expense.
Anubis took great pleasure in the pretty creatures, and by the permission of his superiors a dovecote was erected on the roof of the treasurer's house.
There was a low tower at the south-west corner, dovecote shaped, where the pigeons made their nests and brought forth their young.
When I first went there as a boy, it was a most primitive-looking building, with its low steeple ordovecote (as it looked like).
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.
Elliot are white, slightly feathered on the feet, with the feathers on the head reversed; and they are rather smaller than the rock or dovecote pigeon.
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.
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.
Whether the semi-domesticated dovecote pigeon is more fertile than the wild rock-pigeon, C.
It has often been noticed that the dovecote pigeon seems to have an actual aversion towards the several fancy breeds (16/8.
On the 4th, about midday, the dovecote is visited by a poor wounded pigeon, which drags itself laboriously up to its resting-place.
At the military dovecote a soldier has put the bird on his hand--the bird, which, like some scout, was wounded on active service.
The Pigeons, deluded by this show of reason, admitted him to thedovecote as their king.
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.
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.
Would my Lady think proper to allow a dovecote with silver pins?
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.
Hauling off safely, which was worse than running in, they pulled across the narrow cove, and rounding the little headland, examined the Church Cave and the Dovecote likewise, and with a like result.
Their orders were to slip quietly round, and wait in the Dovecote till the diver came.
There was plenty of time for thought before quick action would be needed, although the Dovecote was so near that no boat could come out of it unseen.
His frequent choice of an old dovecote as a home was misunderstood.
Laurie came sneaking into the kitchen of the Dovecote one Saturday, with an excited face, and was received with the clash of cymbals, for Hannah clapped her hands with a saucepan in one and the cover in the other.
So they invited a Hawk into thedovecote to defend them against their enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dovecote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
