Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovelets
Literary usage of Dovelets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"The comparison of her virgin bosom to ' two snowy dovelets,' is peculiarly felicitous.
' Never, since the world had its beginning, Never did a lovelier ..."
2. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert (1893)
"... if she does not throw down her dovelets to him. Sparrow tells her to reply
that, if Fox manages to climb the tree, she will swallow the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Borrowed. Borrowed as beautifully as the moon The fire of the sun. — STEPHEN
PHILLIPS. Bosom. White her bosom, like two snowy dovelets. — SERVIAN BALLAD. ..."
4. Star-names and Their Meanings by Richard Hinckley Allen (1899)
"... flit thither to the free and happy land, or because the united bird-songs once
were turned into a cloud of snow-white dovelets still seen overhead. ..."
5. The Silence of Amor [and] Where the Forest Murmurs by William Sharp (1910)
"... and to-day their compatriots speak of the " seven dovelets." It would be
tiresome to go through the popular Pleiad- nomenclature of all the European ..."
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