The prose is fascinating, the matter is important to every thinking man, the treatment is so attractive that one is compelled to read the book from cover to cover at once.
His best books stand upon our shelves in every part of the English-speaking world, but the name that appears upon the cover is not that of Theodore Watts-Dunton, but of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
It so happened that the attack developed in a direction which made it necessary for him hurriedly to advance his men to a flank and away from his reserves, whom he had posted where they were under cover and out of sight of the enemy.
Ain't I the real young cover design for the Out-of-door number?
The numerous children scuttled for cover like quail, but immediately peered forth again.
One may journey diligently throughout the season, and cover but one corner of the three great maps that depict about one-half of them.
Well, I'll cover your retreat from the ladder," he said, and up he went.
Under coverof it both he and the bearer gained the loft.
Three guns we must have, to coverthe ground properly.
Seen there it was indeed black and venerable with age, and the lettering on the cover so blurred that the old eyes of Ain Asraf were hardly equal to the task of deciphering it.
Not a plant, not a moss can find a slope or a crevice wherein to insert its roots, or cover the rocks with those waving garlands which so often in Savoy clothe the cliffs, where they flower to God alone.
Brown laughed of course, and so did we all; while the dean tried to cover his confusion by wiping his clothes--the cup having been an empty one.
The Guards were ordered to cover the operations of the pioneers; and all was soon in readiness for the night on which the first trench was to be opened.
In pursuing the enemy towards the fortress, a battalion, which had attempted to cover the retreat, broke at the moment when my company were on the point of charging them.
He wanted to wallow in her, bury himself in her flesh, cover himself over with her flesh.
She continued at college, in her ordinary routine, merely as a cover to her dark, powerful under-life.
The taking of tea was just a mechanical action, to cover over her existence.
The new order was begun to last for ever, the living life, palpitating from the gleaming core, to action, without crust or cover or outward lie.
Truly the best thing would be for me to die, and cover my fantasies for ever.
The invention of that fine silke, tiffanie, sarcenet, and cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them.
Hell shall not hold thee--nor vast Mountains cover thee, but I will find thee out--and lash thy filthy and Adulterous Carcase.
But the only safe method of experimenting is to cover up a whole plant, which then never suffers.
The houses in this city (Philadelphia) are worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the rice swamps of South Carolina.
This plea is sufficiently broad to cover all the oppression and villany that the sun has witnessed in his circuit, since God said, "Let there by light.
Some of the slaves have rugs to cover them in the coldest weather, but I should think more have not.
Now, it would cover any one with infamy, who would stir them up to vindicate their rights by the massacre of their masters.
This assumption of their obligations to the government might cover the whole of the servant's time of service, or a part of it, at the pleasure of the parties.
The cane fields and provision grounds in alternate patches cover the island with one continuous mantle of green.
This plea is sufficiently broad to coverall the oppression and villainy that the sun has witnessed in his circuit, since God said, "Let there be light.
I am well aware that prophecy has often been urged as an excuse for Slavery, but be not deceived, the fulfillment of prophecy will not cover one sin in the awful day of account.
The weather was cold, and the negroes were barefoot, with hardly enough of cotton clothing to cover their nakedness.
This plea is sufficiently broad to cover all the oppression and villany that the sun has witnessed in his circuit, since God said, "Let there be light.
Here men are despised not merely for "the vile raiment," which may cover their scarred bodies.
But very careful was he to let fall no word of the citizen's dress he had conveyed to the "Baby-chile" in the grotto, under cover of night.
She willcover her eyes with her snow-white hands and weep silently, as she used to do once on a time, years ago.
But now, in the Tabernacle, when she was blessing the Festival candles, she could cover her face with her hands and weep in silence without any one knowing it.
These payments used to be entered on the inside cover of my mother's prayer-book.
When we were in my room, my mother smoothed out for me, with her beautiful, snow-white hands, the white cover of my bed.
The Parson was a better judge of the physiognomy of man than that of the horse; and after a satisfactory glance at the civil, smirking landlord, who removed the cover and set on the wine, he ventured on an attempt at conversation.
Men and women, selling different articles, walk about under the cover of the colonnade.
Rex's table-cover robe floated behind him, and the style of his wig was certainly unique.
All my trust on Thee is stayed, All my help from Thee I bring, Cover my defenceless head, With the shadow of Thy wing.
But when at last He has gone, in the removal of the body, then darkness indeed will cover the earth.
Thus it will be seen and cover the earth as the waters cover the deep.
This glory during the Millennium will no doubt not only hover over the land, but will be visible over the entire earth, and the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters the sea.
The Lord of Hosts shall cover them; They shall devour and tread down slingstones, And they drink and make a noise as from wine, And they shall be filled like bowls, as the corners of the altar.
The Armenian refugee could cover himself completely in the coat.
When we sail for Marseilles in June, I will put the tub into the basket, pillows, didies and mattress into the tub, cover the whole with a Turkish cradle shawl we bought yesterday, and fasten it with a big strap.
Odland writes: when they had finished their work outside, they were obliged to lie down on their beds and cover up with robes in order not to freeze.
The flat cover of a chest, brought from Norway, served for a table, and the cooking was done on the ground.
Then I cover my head with both my wings, like this.
Then the clouds began to lower, and seemed to cover the earth with a ponderous lid.
After the dreary black gorges behind them, the light of the sun seemed boxed in here under a leadencover of cloud.
At least cover it with the pretext of some mission.
The guerrillas got back to cover quickly enough, and so did Don Tiburcio, grinning over his stratagem.
You can cover a brick wall with it, or a railroad car, or the deck of a steamboat, and you can't do a better thing for either.
If people could earn money enough to cover their nakedness, they cared little about the color of their covering.
His younger brother declared that he was accustomed to stop, when he was plowing in the field, and solve problems on the fence, and sometimes cover the plow handles with figures.
The captain of the Claverhouse, however, got underweigh, but before getting very far his engineer reported that the hot-well cover had broken in two.
It was common knowledge that smugglers drew lots as to who had to escape if severe fighting or capture became inevitable, and the battle became the more fierce in order to cover the escape of those few.
I slept, generally, in a little closet, without even a blanket to cover me.
The outspread wing of American christianity, apparently broad enough to give shelter to a perishing world, refuses to cover us.
At all events my bearing, in a situation without precedent of etiquette, found sufficient favor to cover my retreat and I went down to the sea unfollowed.
There was instantly a confused, snorting, splashing stampede for the cover of the opposite shore.
Quail started up before us with their whir of softly drumming wings and disappeared into the thick cover of timber.
It was fired into the group and fired from cover on the attorney's own property.
The best we can do is to make a litter of twigs and cover it with moss, and we will bear you into the mountains, and present you to our king.
As for the colour of the mountain, that comes from the soft hue of her cheeks and mouth, which shines through the seven veils which cover her.
Now the tower was situated in the midst of a forest, so the queen thought that, under cover of the dark trees, it would be quite easy for her to drop to earth unseen.
There was one with a verse attached somewhat like the following: The old wife drew a chess-board On the cover of a book, While the child transformed a needle Into a fishing-hook.
In the inside of the cover there was a depression three inches square in which was kept a piece of lead, wood or pasteboard, divided into fifteen pieces as in the following illustration.
They lifted the cover of the basket, and there in quietude the barn-cat was sleeping his long last sleep.
If Morse surprised her, it would be easier tocover up her work.
It was a pretext for an activity tocover her embarrassment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cover" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
