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He spoke to the sailors, and at the first sound of his dovelike, cooing voice they paused to hear.
Yet a dovelike strategy can be the best alternative, much better than persistently attacking, scientists say, depending on what other males are doing.
There was a fire in his knobby white knees and in his dovelike breast.
She was a quiet, gray, dovelike woman, of an outer softness that masked a stubborn inner core.
The call is a dovelike coo.
Eveningstar's voice was soft and dovelike, warm, smiling, almost mischievous: "It is a surprise, dear child!"
Their name was derived from the Latin columba, meaning dovelike, which refers to their shapely form.
"It's three o'clock," came McCoy's voice, still retaining its dovelike quality, but curiously muffled, as if from a long way off.
Yevgenia Ginzburg described her as a "dovelike heroine" and as "an eternal victim" in his memoirs.
The rare and edible all-white dovelike tricholoma (T. columbetta) has a satiny cap and stem and a faint, not mealy, odour.
She spoke to them, sometimes haranguing them shrilly, at others dropping her voice to a dovelike cooing and taking one of their faces in her cupped hands to whisper into an ear.
Fleydur, eagle prince of the Skythunder tribe, Stormac the mynah, and Ewingerale the woodpecker all play pivotal roles as companions to 013-Unidentified, a dovelike bird trapped as a slave.
She saw in a flash of clarity untouched by any petty emotion that beneath the gentle voice and the dovelike eyes of Melanie there was a thin flashing blade of unbreakable steel, felt too that there were banners and bugles of courage in Melanie's quiet blood.