I'll leave the light on for a little while just to try it," decided Nora, her yellow head buried so deeply beneath the covers that it was quite impossible to tell light from darkness.
She drew the covers closer and with her head buried from sound she could no longer listen, and not possibly hear.
The bed covers were turned down--Vita must have been determined that Nora should use that bed, and the window was properly opened, for the soft breeze stirred the scrim curtains, and a wonderful woodland scent stole into the room.
The covers were pushed down just a little, and the princess peered out.
He tore back the covers of Derby's bed, but it was empty.
Movable covers of netting over the ponds are most certainly advisable, particularly if the rearing ponds are in an unfrequented spot near a stream.
These should be kept partially on after the young fish have hatched out, and be replaced by covers of fine wire netting spread on closely-fitting frames, when the fry have begun to feed.
Without that knowledge he will know no more of what is in the other fellow's mind and the bluff that covers it in a critical clash of wits than a baby sucking its bottle in a perambulator.
The Gothic arcading which covers the later portions of the facade varies considerably in detail; this is particularly noticeable on the north and south ends, where narrow lancet doors in deep porches give access to the western chapels.
The two stone coffin-covers in the pavement do not appear to have been originally placed here; they apparently date from the twelfth or thirteenth century.
We may be quite safe in assuming that the new tower was begun soon after, and the reticulated pattern which covers its lower part, both inside and out, may be taken as a mark of Grosseteste's work.
The hexagonal stone structure at the north-east corner, with a pyramidal roof, covers the minster well.
There is no document remaining which records the precise date of the erection of the nave at Lincoln, but it would not be difficult to shew that the first half of the thirteenth century practically covers the whole period of its construction.
We are at war with Mexico now; and the message which covers the marching and sailing orders is still more extraordinary than they.
Mr. Adams has just sunk down in his chair, and has been carried into an adjoining room, and may be at this moment passing from the earth, under the roof that covers us, and almost in our presence.
Upon this title and argument, she gets a slice from Maine, and gains the mountain barrier which covers Quebec; and, upon this title and argument, she means to have the Columbia River.
It coversher new road to Quebec, removes us further from that city, places a mountain between us, and brings her into Maine.
Z--Another workman covers the outside of the furnace with lute where the dome fits on it.
In order that the heat of the fire should not burn his face, he covers it entirely with a cap, in which, however, there are holes through which he may see and breathe.
In order that the wind should not blow into the caldron, the helper covers the front with a board seven and a half feet long and one foot high, and covers each of the sides with boards three and three quarters feet long.
The crucibles and their covers are crushed, washed, and the sediment is melted together with litharge and hearth-lead.
If he fears that it may rain, he covers it up with a cover, which may be moved here and there; at the back this cover has two legs, so that the rain which it collects may flow down the slope on to the open ground.
Then the master covers over the charcoal, placed at the mouth of the furnace, with lute and extracts the wooden rod, and thus the furnace is prepared.
Then he places the lid over the dome, and the assistant covers over the joints with lute.
A dome which has the shape of half a sphere covers the crucible.
The muffle is made of clay, in the shape of an inverted gutter tile; it covers the scorifiers, lest coal dust fall into them and interfere with the assay.
Why, Rutherford's deed for them is burned up, and there is no record of it, and mine coversit all.
The development of North Queensland has taken place since separation from New South Wales; the period of a single generation covers the time that it has taken to settle this large extent of country.
One player stays in the base, covers his eyes and counts a hundred, while the others run off and hide.
Each player then takes one-half of the paper andcovers it with, say, sixty dots.
If he misses it, another one tries, and so on; but if he hits it the bag breaks, the candy covers the floor, and the party scramble for it.
Tell me that you, will honour the habit which covers you, by an inward retirement.
You tell me, that it is for me you live under that veil which covers you; why do you profane your vocation with such words?
The completion of the duel, according to the Comment regulations, by sword stroke and not by lunging, and with defensive costume, which covers almost every exposed part of the body, renders any dangerous consequences almost impossible.
The rapier is similar to the Schlaeger, but, of course, blunt; a thick leather stulp covers the arm, and a mask the face.
The second clothes himself in similar duel-trousers, and puts on a cap with a large front, or a hat, and the large leather stulp-glove covers his arm.
For, in you, I seem to perceive some strange phenomenon of a spirit changed to twilight gloom which covers all your hills and valleys with the mournful shadow of approaching night.
By superimposing a map of China over that of the United States you may see that China more than coversthis country; China is considerably larger than the United States.
The propagation, selection, disease and cultural work covers the field that is handled by the Bureau of Plant Industry.
The city covers an enclosed space about twenty miles in circumference.
The second unit is given at the Rock Island arsenal and covers eleven days as a minimum.
The report of the New Jersey commission appointed to study military training in its relation to high schools covers this point admirably.
On the lakes the active season covers the period of navigation, from about April 1st to early in December.
The diocese covers the greater part of Staffordshire and about half the parishes in Shropshire, with small portions of Cheshire and Derbyshire.
The series of the first five librarians at Alexandria appears to be pretty well established as follows: Zenodotus, Callimachus, Eratosthenes, Apollonius and Aristophanes; and their activity covers a period of about a century.
This volume covers a period of profound interest--political and literary--and is written with great vivacity.
If I tell a story it is not to raise a laugh, but to lift a corner of the veil which covers these dull minds, to show how little they have reached the level to which we have ascended.
The head is the noblest part of man, and when he lifts his hat that covers it, he implies, or rather did imply at one time, that his head was at the disposal of the person to whom he showed this homage.
But at times in winter it is bad enough, for when the snow covers the frozen ground we get but little warmth-giving food.
Last week a family quarrel arose among some sparrows in the large wistaria that covers the front of my cottage, and during the row an immense hammock of a double nest was knocked down.
The borderers were soon compelled to fall back, even within the shadows of the hill, and to seek such covers as the stockades offered, in order to avoid the aim of the arrow or the bullet.
In a few more minutes the little band was scattered behind the covers of the fields, and the rattling of fire-arms succeeded to the quaint and characteristic manner of their march.
I fear that some of our young men have not regarded the covers with the attention that prudence requires.
We are on the trail of one fled, as the truant fawn seeketh again the covers of the woods," said Content.
I draw aside the slender curtain whichcovers those mysteries, witnesses of such gross indecencies?
This paragraph is the longest La Bruyère has written; it covers between eight and nine pages in the original edition.
At a first and single glance we ought not to judge of men as of a picture or statue; there is an inner man, and a heart to be searched; a veil of modestycovers merit, and a mask of hypocrisy covers wickedness.
This view "covers more history," as Lyman points out, than that from any other of our peaks.
Often this queenly upland flowercovers great areas, hiding the desolation wrought by forest fires.
The weakling, crowded and overshadowed, inevitably deepens the forest floor with its fallen trunk, adding to the humus that covers the lavas, and nourishing in its decay the more fortunate rival that has robbed it of life.
A tramp of three miles from the Inn covers the easier grade, and brings the climber to a height of eight thousand feet.
A period of freezing weather is shortly followed by the melting of the snow upon the distant mountains; by night the warm Chinook sweeps up the Columbia canyon and across the passes, and in a few hours the mildness of spring covers the land.
Sometimes reaching a height of more than 250 feet, it grows in remarkably close stands, and covers vast areas with valuable timber that will keep the multiplying mills of Oregon and Washington sawing for generations.
Beyond the Deschutes drainage, where spurs of the Blue mountains rise to the levels of clouds and moisture, the forest again covers the hills, spreading far to the east until it disappears again in the broad, treeless valley of Snake river.
Adams district are described in Balch: Glacieres, or Freezing Caverns, which covers similar phenomena in many countries; by L.
With birds shy and scarce, flooded furze and no stubble, To beat dripping covers is scarce worth the trouble.
It reveals a cruelty more perverse than that of the Boxer or Bashi-Bazuk, and it covers the reputation of the German soldiery with eternal shame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
