"Culver" Quotes from Famous Books
... little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance. He considered it awhile and seeing it mazed and brooding in its cage, shed tears and ... — The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous |