So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
It was very like the hawk perched over and clawing the ringdove she has struck down. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Birds of the pigeon kind, such as the ringdove and the turtle-dove, lay two eggs at a time; that is to say, they do so as. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
M.B.O.U., one of our greatest authorities, says that its note is lower and more of a querulous murmur than that of the ringdove. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Then, after ending his verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Of wild pigeons we have three kinds: the common woodpigeon or ringdove, of which there are large flocks; the stockdoves, which go in pairs, and. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
There are other birds that live on fruit and herbage, such as the wild pigeon or ringdove, the common pigeon, the rock-dove, and the turtle-dove. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
That in hours when the ringdove coos to his spouse. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
Where the ringdove would warble its sorrowful tale. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
Yet the ringdove could probably vie with any of them. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
Yea, I will laud thee while the ringdove moans, viii. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
A lamb stands by her side, and a tame ringdove is perched on her wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
'Remember that the ringdove never made half such a fuss about her nest as the magpie.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
Her words rang out crystalclear, more musical than the cooing of the ringdove, but they cut the silence icily. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The siskin and the ringdove vied with each other to do them pleasure, all day long their music rejoiced ear and soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times] Reference
Only the keeper sees That, where the ringdove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Road] Reference
The ringdove occasionally rears a nestling in captivity, but it does not seem, at any time of life, to prove a very attractive pet. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
Only, unlike our metropolitan doves, both the domestic kind and the ringdove in the parks, the Salisbury doves though in the town are not of it. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
Britain, forming its nest in the holes of rocks, old towers, and in the hollows of trees; it never, however, like the ringdove, nestles in the branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Their coo is not in any sense tuneful; yet it has a pleasant association; for the ringdove is pre-eminently the bird of the woods and forests, and rightly named the wood-pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
A salt shaker to ketch it, but you were depending on nothing but a ringdove coo, as far as I can see, when it hopped in your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference
I heard a ringdove chanting plaintively. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I heard a ringdove chanting soft and plaintively. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Most like a ringdove chiding. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
= Better known as the ringdove. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
She broodeth when the ringdove broods. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference
The ringdove, tedious harper on five tones. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
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