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doves
faithfulness reflected in their pairing for life. [Christian Symbolism: Child, 211]

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The children especially going to school, the bluish doves flying down from the roofs to the pavement, and the little loaves covered with flour, thrust out by an unseen hand, touched him.
Gentiles and kings thy light shall view, And shall admire and love thee too; They come, like clouds across the sky, As doves that to their windows fly.
He had been all day in the hills west of the Napa Valley, looking for doves and such small game as was in season.
 
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