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"'Can Ah Moy walk home with pletty lady? he asked in dove-like tones. "Now Miss Cragiemuir's fads were invariably carried through to the last extremity, and Ah Moy's request, instead of embarrassing her, afforded a thrill of gratification.
But there was one which had a burden all its own. The demure Quaker maiden who had looked love out of her dove-like eyes three years ago when Pepeeta appeared for the first time among these quiet folk, was in her old familiar seat.
I love thee more than God, and would endure a thousand deaths for the happiness I ask of thee! Then he would kiss me, not after the manner of husbands, which is rough, but in a peculiar dove-like fashion."
I used to lie on my back on the roof of the wheel-house and look into the sky, and try to make friends with the sea-gulls which sailed around over me, curiously peering down with their dove-like eyes as if to see what this thing might be.
Then he took two pieces of card, wrote on them Re Penfold, and looked about for his other materials, to put them all neatly together. Lo! the profile of Robert Penfold was gone. "Now that is too bad," said he. "So much for her dove-like eyes, that you admired so. Miss Innocence has stolen that profile." "Stolen! she bought it of me." "Why, she never said a word." "No; but she looked a look.
I had often imagined her walking there at mid-day, dressed in white muslin with wide sleeves open to the elbow, scattering grain from a silver plate to the proud pigeons that strutted about her slippered feet and fluttered to her dove-like hand. I had dreamed of seeing that woman as I rode racehorses on wild Irish plains, of being loved by her; in London I had dreamed of becoming Sevres's pupil.
As Alice rose from her knees, where she had sunk by the side of Cora, she threw herself on the bosom of the latter; and sobbed aloud the name of their aged father, while her soft, dove-like eyes sparkled with the rays of hope. "We are saved! we are saved!" she murmured; "to return to the arms of our dear, dear father, and his heart will not be broken with grief.
The appearance of the dove-like grouse, Tetrao paradoxus, or Syrrhaptus Pallassi, in various parts of Europe, in 1850 and the following years, is a noticable exception to the law of regularity which seems to govern the movements and determine the habitat of birds.
She was clad in gray, a soft, silken, dove-like gray, that clung about her in picturesque, daintily draped folds, he approached her still more nearly, and then could scarcely refrain from a loud cry of amazement! What flowers were those she wore at her breast! so white, so star- like, so suggestive of paradise lilies new-gathered?
Her mother seemed again to stand before her; and she thought, as she heard her caressing voice, and met the glance of her dove-like eyes, she laid her head on her bosom, as she was wont to do in her happy childhood; and peace seemed to sink into her heart so blessedly, so deeply, that the very fever of her frame departed.
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