Dove-like

Through your veil we see your dove-like eyes.

Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…].

While he went on, and learnedly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his choſen Text, / I caſt my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the ſounding Board. / That Bird, thought I, was put there as a Sign / What Kind of Spirit guides a good Divine: […]

She had her pets as well as he, and her life and that of her future partner promised to be as dove-like as possible.

As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!