There's Misthress Ashatea and the young chief billing and cooing at her tent-door like two turtle-doves; and if they were to see you moving about, maybe they'd think it necessary, out of courtesy, to come and help you-and it would be a pity to disturb them.
"Afar in the Forest"
W.H.G. Kingston
As if to taunt me, They gather every Sabbath afternoon In noisy congregation on my roof, billing and cooing.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Candles were scarce in those days, so that billing and cooing was done by very dim fire-light.
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson