One was a dainty little magpie; the other a soft-eyed turtle dove.

You have been a turtle dove lately;-nowyou will be an ogre again.

She shall be Mimi, the turtle dove, the daughter of Onanguissé.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest A captive turtle dove preening in Norfolk.

He was as mild as a turtle dove, but they wouldn't stand for it.

Soft as the down of the turtle dove

Far, far away a turtle dove was calling-callingso softly that it almost seemed to be imagination.

Some of Britain's most familiar countryside birds like the turtle dove have plummeted in numbers since the 1990s.

I called her the turtle dove.

Petro's pretty little turtle dove informed him that at first light next morning they would take their children home.

With supply chains disrupted and "non-essential" work cut, the turtle dove feeding is likely to be curtailed.

Wood-duck, woodcock, turtle dove and bob-white.-(A.R.

For swearing, an offence to ears polite, rather than eternal justice, a female creature or turtle dove might be offered.

No lyricist wants to keep linking "love" with "skies above" and " turtle dove," but what can he do?

She had been cooing like a turtle dove, and now, "Oh, wondrous change," she wished to shoot him.

The turtle dove and robbin are the same of our country and are found as well in the plain as open country.