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During the deep snow which blocked the roads and covered the fields almost a foot deep, they were silent, but were constantly observed flying to and fro. Immediately it became milder they recommenced to coo, so that at intervals the note of the wood-pigeon was heard in the adjacent house from October, all through the winter, till the nesting time in May.
Coo! coo!" "What are you saying there?" asked Gerda. "Whither was the Snow Queen traveling? Do you know anything about it?" "She was probably journeying to Lapland, for there they have always ice and snow. Ask the Reindeer that is tied to the cord." "There is ice and snow yonder, and it is glorious and fine," said the Reindeer. "There one may run about free in great glittering plains.
Blackbirds often make a good deal of noise; but the soft turtle-doves coo gently, let the lightning be as savage as it will. Nothing has the least fear. Man alone, more senseless than a pigeon, put a god in vapour; and to this day, though the printing press has set a foot on every threshold, numbers bow the knee when they hear the roar the timid dove does not heed.
The face was white and drawn, and the great black eyes she had been an Oliver out of Megget were fixed in the long stare of pain. Her voice had the high lilt and the deep undertones of the Forest. "The bairn 'ill be gone ere ye ken, Sim," she said wearily. "He canna live without milk, and I've nane to gie him. Get the coo back or lose the son I bore ye.
There came into Lucy's eyes a sort of warning look to keep the secret, and the wonderful spectacle was, as it were, closed again, hidden with her arms and bending head. And the soft coo of the lullaby went on. Presently the women stole back, awed and silenced, but full of a reviving thrill of curiosity.
'I hope, he would coo to me, 'my friend Watts-Dunton, who' and here he would turn and make a little bow to Watts-Dunton 'is himself a scholar, will bear me out when I say' or 'I hardly know, he would flute to his old friend, 'whether Mr.
It ill becomes the eagle's brood to coo like the dove, and you have sharp talons though you hide them never so well under your soft feathers.
These two illustrations, as the minister says, are sufficient to show the character of the deficiency which I am now to supply, which young housekeepers of intelligence feel, when they have got their nests ready and begin to bill and coo in-doors. There are many things which every fool knows, which people of sense do not know.
"You have come to me safely from far away. You have come from the place where my dear father is. Have you brought me word from him?" With a soft coo the pigeon nestled closer in John's arms. Reaching under its wing, he found a scroll of writing tied there securely with a silken cord. "A letter from my father!" he cried, untying it eagerly.
When the Egyptian children began to cry or coo, the Hebrew children that were kept in hiding would join in, after the manner of babies, and betray their presence, whereupon the Egyptians would seize them and bear them off.
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