She will be as mild and as meek as a little dove.

The little dove is lying on my bed behind the partition.

Don't be frightened, little dove; he has the makings of a great soldier.

Not at all-nothingat all like that, little dove with talons.

I'm about the quietest, most harmless little dove there ever was.

What are you doing, little dove, there in the wineshop?

The " little dove" had found a secure nesting-place in his heart.

Not I, oh, no, not I, poor little dove.

But when they came to the hazel tree the little dove sat there still, and sang-

You need not fear for your little dove.

What have you to say, O little dove?

Then, approaching Marya, "Tell me, my little dove, why your husband punishes you thus?"

But when they came to the hazel-tree, the little dove sat there still, and sang as before.

He'll peck that little dove to death.

After seven days again he sent out his good little dove, and she did not come back.

Poor little dove in a hawk's nest!