Wuthering Heights vocabulary

Some doves went to a hawk, and asked him to protect them from a kite. "That I will," was the cheerful reply; "and when I am admitted into the dovecote, I shall kill more of you in a day than the kite did in a century.

Ambrose Bierce. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

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setting the thatch of the dovecote on fire—that was an accident, I didna do it on purpose

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I swung over a partition and went brushing past a huge cote and arousing a flight of frantic white birds,

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And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]

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there were no pigeons in the dove-cot, no horses in the stable, no pigs in the sty, no malt in the storehouse, no smells of grains and beer in the copper or the vat. All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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He hailed me to follow him, and, after marching through a wash-house, and a paved area containing a coal-shed, pump, and pigeon-cot, we at length arrived in the huge, warm, cheerful apartment where I was formerly received.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)