"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.

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!'

In the magpie's nest Dwells the dove at rest.

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.

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.

COLMAN, AUTHOR OF INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD, ETC. ETC. 1850. CONTENTS. ~THE TURTLE-DOVES OF CARMEL.~ CHAPTER FIRST.

A cloud of myriad wings, e'er fills the sky, As doves around their nests on earth here fly; The countless millions of the souls on earth, The gods have brought to light from mortal birth, Are carried there from the dark world of doom; For countless numbers more there still is room.

Yet, on second thought, I do not believe the Prussians call their war monoplane a dove by way of satire.

" He arrived the very next morning, and as soon as he met his sister, he exploded: "I was quite sure, Maxa, that you would immediately deliver the little dove into the vulture's claws.

We resumed our seats in the arba, and the yemtchik took us at the gallop of his doves along shady roads which the Russian administration keeps up with care.

A new sort of scene is about to open on our heroine, and we shall show her to you, for an evening at least, in new associations, and with a different background from that homely and rural one in which she has fluttered as a white dove amid leafy and congenial surroundings.

It is true I set the Dove as an invincible sentinel over you, but as a good soldier and loyal son of France I could do no less.

Let all the mournful sounds of earth be heard, The breeze hath carried stored from beast and bird; Join the sweet notes of doves for their lost love To the wild moans of hours,wailing move; Let choirs of Heaven and of the earth then peal, All living beings my dread sorrow feel!

"You have my dove inside your coat," said the Child, pointing.

His worshipping eyes looked down on her hands fluttering like white doves about his heart,for it was hard to keep away from that inner breast pocketand at last, when she could not wait any longer, she went deep down in it, and drew out a flat packet.

The palace had three rows of windows, one above the other; and while I was making my observations, I saw the swans fly into the palace through open windows in the lowest row, the birds of paradise through others in the middle row, and the doves through others in the highest.

" "A dove within a headpiece made her nest, 'Twixt Mars and Venus see an interest.

The fat, stumpy corporal, with his enormously broad pantaloons and automaton legs, went down to the fountain with his musket, and after taking a rest and sighting full five minutes, fired at a dove without hitting it.

CHAPTER XLIII THE EAGLE VISITS THE DOVES IN THEIR NEST Alphonsinaonly living property of Aurora and Clotildewas called upon to light a fire in the little parlor.