How To Use Dovecote In A Sentence
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He wanted to restore the elegant dovecote, which has 880 nesting boxes in 16 tiers, and turn it into a versatile glass-and-steel living space with a glazed extension, without losing the integrity of the original building.
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Not far away, silhouetting the pleasant pastures, is an ornate dovecote with other attractive buildings.
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He said one suggestion made to the town council, and apparently successful in other towns, was to erect dovecotes to attract the birds, give them feed containing a contraceptive and have their eggs removed regularly.
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Sheltered from the wind, our table overlooked the renovated ‘lake’ and active dovecote.
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He has just spent the evening opening up the three of the six holes in their dovecote that were previously blanked off to make more room.
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And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
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She saw a wall with espaliered fruit trees and the turret of a dovecote.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Eggs laid in the dovecote will be removed regularly in an effort to humanely reduce the size of the flock.
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She saw a wall with espaliered fruit trees and the turret of a dovecote.
DISPLACED PERSON
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The dovecote was his escape, his only friend, and he wouldn't abandon it, even to prolong his life.
365 tomorrows
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The new doves were allowed to fly for the first time today (they have to be kept in an aviary over their dovecote for the first few weeks to develop/re-set their sense of ‘home’).
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Town clerk Graham Gittins said Chester City Council had halved the city's pigeon flock by introducing dovecotes in strategic areas and attracting birds to roost in them by providing food.
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They live with his parrots and pigeons in a dovecote.
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So theft could not apply to pigeons that are flying in the air, but it may apply to pigeons in a dovecote.
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Then passed 12 years of me gazing longingly at dovecotes in stately home gardens, and becoming increasingly fascinated by the metaphorical possibilities of dovecotes in my soul.
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The dovecote was the second most likely rendezvous.
City of Glory
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In his practical inventory of farm assets, Palladio simply lists gardens together with granaries, storerooms, fishponds and dovecotes.
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At the back, a private garden for the residents, complete with sun room, summer house, duck-pen and dovecotes, as well as several bird-tables, the largest shaped like an old schoolhouse.
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The Oorya, not unanxious to play off one parasite against the other, slunk away towards the dovecote.
Kim
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The three-story "tower" that stands on the property today and graces the wine label is actually a pigeonniere, or dovecote, built in 1625—and is not, as is commonly imagined, the tower that gave the estate its name.
A Towering Bordeaux
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And sometimes, also, do I find a fugitive creature in my dovecote, which is alien to me, and trembleth when I lay my hand upon it.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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The council is also launching a leaflet campaign to aimed at people who feed the birds on a regular basis, asking them to feed the pigeons at the dovecote.
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We sat on the village bench, pulled on our boots, speculated on how many of the pretty sandstone houses were holiday cottages and eventually realised that the immobile pigeon in a dovecote was not alive, but not dead either.
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The dovecote was a head-dress, a kind of round caul of gold or silver network, secured by gold or silver pins fastened in the hair.
A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
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It possesses a pigeonry much like that at Brantôme, but on a smaller scale, that wiseacres have pronounced to be a Columbarium, not for doves, but for the reception of jars containing the ashes of the dead, and have attributed this dovecote to Roman times.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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The nearby dovecote is unusually capacious, with 1,380 nesting holes.
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Last Tuesday the council's town development committee voted to put aside £10,000 in next year's budget to provide dovecotes in the hope of coaxing the birds away from the town centre.
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He carried a notebook in which he jotted notes or sketches of anything which caught his interest - an unusual design for a dovecote, or the resemblances between eddying water and braided hair.
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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By the barn pond, a Scandinavian-looking dovecote stands starkly above the water, complete with two carved wooden doves.
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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We emerged from the kitchen garden and walked around a roofless octagonal dovecote and into an artificial glade.
TOY SHOP
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A review of where dovecotes and designated feeding areas could be located in the town should get under way by mid-July, with egg removal or egg-oiling methods used to control the population.
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Some nominations are illustrated here, and other examples range from a dovecote complete with nesting boxes in an old barn at Askham Richard, a community hall at Nether Poppleton and the butchers' shop at Bishopthorpe.
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One remedy being considered is the provision of a dovecote where controlled feeding could take place.
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As finance minister under hiss leadership he had the ‘modernising government’ brief as well, and began to ruffle many feathers in the bureaucratic dovecote.
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The dovecote was an exquisite conceit painted snow white and the blue of a robin’s egg.
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