Try to lift his pinions." "Heaven knows the little thing has marrow in its bones! How the tiny wing pinches; the falcons are not much stronger." "It's a carrier-dove too, that finds its way alone." "Why do you keep no white tumblers?
I should think they could be watched farthest in their flight." "Because doves fare like men.

Whoever shines very brightly and is seen from a distance, is set upon by opponents and envious people, and birds of prey pounce upon the white doves first.

I tell you, Captain, whoever has eyes in his head, can learn in a dove-cote how things come to pass among Adam and Eve's posterity on earth." "There is quarrelling and kissing up here just as there is in Leyden." "Yes, exactly the same, Captain.

If I mate an old dove with one much younger, it rarely turns out well.

When the male dove is in love, he understands how to pay his fair one as many attentions, as the most elegant gallant shows the mistress of his heart.