1 "Kiss it," cried the little girl, and flung the pigeon in Gerda's face.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 'I am looking back at my little pigeon which is sitting on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me,' answered Hansel.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 3 The "pigeon house" stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected.
4 He gave this people the nature of the pigeon; wings that never tire; young, more plentiful than the leaves on the trees, and appetites to devour the earth.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 5 A pigeon, alone on a low branch, allowed Pearl to come beneath, and uttered a sound as much of greeting as alarm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 6 A plump, dark-blue pigeon flew into the road, and hurriedly went to drink in a puddle near the well.
7 With his strong hand he uprears the mast of Serestus' ship, and on a cord crossing it hangs from the masthead a fluttering pigeon as mark for their steel.
8 The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
9 The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells.
10 For some weeks nothing was known of her whereabouts, then the pigeons reported that they had seen her on the other side of Willingdon.
11 She appeared to be enjoying herself, so the pigeons said.
12 According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms.
13 In addition, four pigeons were sent to Foxwood with a conciliatory message, which it was hoped might re-establish good relations with Pilkington.
14 But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington.
15 The pigeons swirled into the air, and all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies and hid their faces.