From the oaks of Dodona doves uttered oracles of the future.
Seven doves hovering around the head of Our Lord or the Virgin Mary symbolize, in Mediæval art, the seven-fold gifts of the Spirit.
The following enlarged copy of an early Christian seal exhibits the triumph of the cross over the Old Serpent, the Devil, while it is the symbol of salvation to the saints represented by the doves at its foot.
When grey and white mice are paired, the young are piebald, or pure white or grey, but not of an intermediate tint; so it is when white and common collared turtle-doves are paired.
Above the boxes is the place allotted to the negroes, who seem stationed there that their thickset figures and black faces may serve as a foil to the white doves in the boxes.
Then, indeed, the Doves so fill their crops, that bare places do not fail to appear on the ground.
The doves hovered above her head for an instant, and then gently lowered their burden until it was just in front of her.
As Lu-san's dovesdisappeared in the distant skies, a rosy light surrounded her flying car.
The doves crooned; the cawing rooks flapped black into the blue above the neighbouring woods; the earth drowsed on.
Fold back our arms, take home our fruitless loves, That must new fortunes try, like turtle-doves 30 Dislodged from their haunts.
Pigeons and doves strutted about the yard, and were evidently considered very nearly as sacred as those of St. Mark's, for they were as fearless as if the days of the millennium had come at last.
A lady in a mantilla graced them as we stood looking at the Norman archway beyond: the more interesting of the turtle-doves who had travelled with us from Monistrol.
The tender prayers that were in her heart for all the beasts and birds, for helpless children, and tired women, and for all who were old, were often seen flying above her head in the form of white doves of sunshine.
At sundown a flight of wild doves rose out of the pines, wheeled against the shine of the west and flashed out of sight, flames of purple and rose, of foam-white and pink.
Ring doves taken when old rarely eat, and die of hunger if they are not crammed, like young pigeons.
When the white doves flew past, they struck the bells with their wings and made them tinkle.
The Earth is going to be married, and this is her bridal dress,' whispered the Turtle-doves to each other.
Peace in the voice of the turtle-doves among the willows!
So absorbed was she that she did not notice that the doves had ceased to call, and that the eagle had fled away for shelter.
There are thirty-five varieties of doves and pigeons, all edible.
Trust then to me; these little doves they are my study day and night; happy the man whose wife taketh her fling before wedlock, and who trippeth up the altar-steps instead of down 'em.
It strikes in us chords that lie at the foundation, the combinations that unlock the doors, and the "Imprisoned Splendor" wings in and out like the doves of Hesperides.
The aristocratic doves brood badly, and we put their eggs under birds of more ordinary breed.
Whoever shines very brightly and is seen from a distance, is set upon by opponents and envious people, and birds of prey pounce upon the white doves first.
The doves that cooed and clucked, flew away and returned to the cote beside him, could now do as they chose, their guardian neither saw nor heard them.
Still, it was good to have Sam to myself for long, quiet, hot evenings out on the front porch under the brooding doves in the eaves above us.
Negro cooks were hustling suppers on their smoking stoves, and one of the doves that lives up in the vines under the eaves of my home moaned out and was answered by one from under the vines that grow over the gables at the Crittendens'.
Doves were sacred to her, and in the temples of Syria there were statues of this goddess with a golden dove on her head.
Being deserted by her mother, she was fed by doves in the desert; and when she was about a year old, a shepherd named Simmas found the infant in a rocky place, and he adopted the foundling as his child, calling her Semiramis.
In the high arcade a colony of doves is domesticated; and I like to watch them circling about and wheeling round the spires of the over-decorated Theatine church opposite, and perching on the heads of the statues on the facade.
As soon as she comes, the little brown birds and the doves all fly that way, and look up expectant at her.
Pigeons called softly to their mates, and doves cooed and sobbed as they nestled one to the other.
It lay so peaceful there and quiet, the curving roofs like flights of doves who had settled down with their wings not yet quite folded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
