sucking dove , także: sucking-dove

He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quaker's meeting.

But the lion within is still there and, although it roars as gently as any sucking-dove, let us hope that it can heard again.

I prooted like a lion, I prooted mellifluously like a sucking-dove; but Modestine would be neither softened nor intimidated.