Which preposition to use with dove
And you dove into the small boat, trying to reach the water.
Each made a dive for a paper and each face wore an expression of genuine delight.
"She has been fighting for your little dove of a sister," replied Percy; "the one that went West to finish her education.
If Eve is wise as the serpent in her, and harmless as the dove in her, she can lead Adam a willing captive to heaven or hell.
He was just by the edge of the rock, almost within reach of my landing net, when, with a last desperate effort to escape, he plunged towards the bottom, made a dive under the rock, the line came against its edge, slipped gratingly for a moment, snapped, and the fish was gone.
With an exclamation of wrath Fletcher made a dive in the direction of the offender, and in a moment the whole gathering was in a state of confusion.
As he switched up the lights it bounded to its feet and dived through the portières with such celerity that he saw little more of it than coat-tails level on the wind.
But during the winter, when the stream-banks are embossed in snow, and the streams themselves are chilled nearly to the freezing-point, so that the snow falling into them in stormy weather is not wholly dissolved, but forms a thin, blue sludge, thus rendering the current opaquethen he seeks the deeper portions of the main rivers, where he may dive to clear water beneath the sludge.
all three dived at me like a rock and bullets flew by me, cutting my plane, so I pulled up at them, fired, swerved so my gunner could let them have it also and then saw the iron cross flash by, so I knew it was the Huns.
After Buddha had attained to perfect wisdom, and in travelling about with his disciples arrived at this spot, he informed them that this was the place where he ransomed the dove with a piece of his own flesh.
a man had as good be ty'd to a stake and baited like Tom Dove on Easter Monday as be the necessary appurtenance of a great man's table!'
Even when they dived from the spring-board they had a certain kind of a way of jumping, they called it the tiger spring, and nobody could get the hang of it.
The pigeon being monogamous, the male attaches and confines himself to one female, and the attachment is reciprocal, and the fidelity of the dove to its mate is proverbial.
In the magpie's nest Dwells the dove at rest.
Finally they dived like rabbits into the forecastle hatch.
Frank dived after him quickly.
He makes you dive out of the Strand to see a beautiful doorway, and out of Fleet Street to admire the Henry room.
How splendid! He struck out with his legs; he struck out with his arms; he dived with his whole body.
and with a jerk of one long paddle he dives among the weeds.
" How refreshing to dive Below the Billow.
[Footnote 9: Korah, Kore, or Kárun, the Dives of his age, was an alchemist.
-So still the Nymphs emerging lift in air 110 Their snow-white shoulders and their azure hair; Sail with sweet grace the dimpling streams along, Listening the Shepherd's or the Miner's song; But, when afar they view the giant-cave, On timorous fins they circle on the wave, 115 With streaming eyes and throbbing hearts recoil, Plunge their fair forms, and dive beneath the soil.
Also, he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground: but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
Just another phase of the same thing which brings the doves out of Mr. Hermann's empty hat.
Yet, on second thought, I do not believe the Prussians call their war monoplane a dove by way of satire.