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Cecil quickly dove behind a small block of cement but knew his hiding place wouldn't last long.
Also pictured are stalks of sugar cane, a palm tree, bananas, and a white dove.
Even if it doesn't get all the way home, a domestic rock pigeon stands a much better chance in the urban wild than a ring-neck dove.
Instead, I dove into the chapters as a reader entirely new both to this title and to the subject matter.
There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
The oldest recorded columbid is a mourning dove that lived 19 years and 4 months.
The rufous turtle dove which saw a flurry of birdwatchers descend on Stromness earlier this month is still attracting twitchers.
I instantly dove into the thick, uncut grass that was taller than me at the time.
Nothing was happening until a chipmunk poked his head through the flowers, looked at me, and dove back under.
I took a deep breath and then dove into the story, telling every single detail.
She dove into a sideways roll and made a lunge at his side, which he avoided easily by stepping out of the way.
When viewed from the underside, the collared dove appears grayer than a turtle dove, with black visible on the tail.
Yes, like the turtle dove she had fled, though very reluctantly and was now haunted by a seductive image.
Some of the other birds you get to see here are the African parrot, guineafowl, diamond dove, lutinos, cockatiel and ducks.
A gentler, less aureate Archangel, though still cloud-borne, points at the Holy Ghost descending as a dove.
George dove right into the pack of enemy aircraft and shot down five, starting with tail-end Charlie.
At last we dove into an old abandoned house, all the doors were locked and the windows boarded up with pieces of molding plywood.
Every year, she dove into the water, waiting for the dolphins to make contact.
And then Gloria Abrams, Robby's agent's assistant, dove in head first and swam her way to the bottom of the pool.
Upon return home, I dove into research about what was in pet products and why they affected my dog.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He dove in a wabble to the ground and, in his descent, his petrol tank was struck by one of our explosive bullets.
The dove of Paphos therefore, may be considered as synonymous with the dove of Venus.
Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven.
Rolling the pigskin in front of him, he dove for it, pouncing on it as a beagle on a rabbit.
Then I put the buckhorn extinguisher over the candle and dove into the feather bed as gleefully as a child on Christmas Eve.
They dove for him, hauled him out of the bed, and pummeled him with sheer delight.
You, sweet dove, pure and guideless, you have taught me what I could not ascertain in twenty years' application.
He let himself into his apartment, switched on the light and dove underneath the coffee table.
Some such look I had seen in the eyes of a dove which had been offered up as food for a constrictor.
And in the harlequinade she's Columbine, but that only means a dove, and a dove is the symbol of the soul.
Her face, shaded by a drapery of dove blue, was as fair as sculptured marble.
A red-tailed hawk soared in the valley below us and from the roadside we flushed flocks of mourning dove at every curve.
As most readers are aware, the stock dove is a dweller in wooded inland districts, as well as on the coast.
The breeding season of the stock dove begins in April, and extends over the entire summer into the succeeding autumn.
Its voice is also utterly unlike the well-known penetrating and musical coo of the collared dove.
The rock dove is an early breeder, congregating in colonies on such cliffs as afford it the necessary shelter.
The rock dove is found on almost all parts of the rocky coasts of Europe and the outlying islands.
It is a little smaller than our own rock dove, and has not the whitish plumage on the lower part of the back.
All the fancy breeds now raised come from the common pigeon, which is descended from the wild rock pigeon or rock dove.
Near the spring the goldfinches are still in full chorus, and just beyond them in the path is a mourning dove.
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