At this Nisus could no longer restrain himself, and leaping from the covert he shouted, "I, none but I, am the guilty cause.
Beneath this covert he made a great bed of fallen leaves, and heaping them above him, soon fell into a deep slumber sent in mercy to restore him by the ever-watchful Minerva.
Effie was to pay for her morning's holiday by an hour or two in the school-room, and Owen suggested that he and Darrow should betake themselves to a distant covert in the desultory quest for pheasants.
He had an almost physical sense of struggling for air, of battling helplessly with material obstructions, as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle.
With the knife poised Johnse cast a covert look at Bud.
It was this beautiful Grecian countenance that inspired even the well-bred people about her in the station to pause for a second covert look.
Those in the covert knew not whether most to dread a shouting which should agitate their horses, or a silence which might betray a movement on their part.
There, finding a covert sheltered by intermingling branches alike from the sun and the rain, he collected a pile of leaves and formed a bed, on which he stretched himself, and heaping the leaves over him, fell asleep.
From out of some covert of seeming friendship an unlooked-for arrow whizzes.
Let me dwell a guest in Thy tent for ever, Let me find refuge in the covert of Thy wings.
The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the glowworm lights her spark, The deer, half seen, are to the covert wending.
But, the time had come to meet thesecovert preparations Herman Mordaunt now held a consultation, on the subject of our proceedings.
I thought I could detect a covert gleam of contempt in his dark countenance, at this boast of Guert's; but he made no remark.
This covert satisfaction, however, was not exhibited without certain misgiving looks, as if the neophyte in these innocent enjoyments distrusted his right to possess his share.
The good-natured beast, though as yet it was hardly past Christmas-time, had consented to bless at once so many anxious sportsmen, and had left the back of the covertwith the full pack at his heels.
With startled cry the maids Shrank clamoring round their mistress, or made flight To covert in the hazel thickets.
Whooping like discovered fiends, they flew from their covert upon the unarmed laborers, shot and tomahawked those within reach, and sent the others in panic flight to the fort.
Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.
This is a covert chiding of my faults, So deep repented, love.
The barons to covert slink, Saying their loyalty binds them to fight No farther than the shore.
Not contented with thus varying the earlier outlines of the legend, Euripides in more than one passage directs a covert criticism against his predecessors.
Historians have not omitted to record the covert proceedings of William of Orange during this general commotion, who labored to conduct to one end these various and conflicting passions.
By taking this office upon them they exposed themselves to the charge of having in no very covert manner lent their sanction to the enterprise of the confederates.
The solitary hut on the flat green island seemed unsheltered and desolate, and yet not wholly so, for it was but a broad river’s breadth from the covert of the wood of the other island.
Yon cottage seems a bower of bliss, A covert for protection Of tender thoughts, that nestle there— The brood of chaste affection.
I did not move as he let his covert eyes dwell for a moment or two on my lounging figure.
I was also not unconscious of the quick and covert glance of the man who sat so close to me.
There was a sort of covert decisiveness about their movements, in fact, as they stepped back into the room and swung the door shut behind them.
In the corridor his valet stood aside to let him pass, and regarded his pale face with covert curiosity.
The color came and went in her face, her eyes grew downcast, while both men looked at her; Blair with loving adoration, Austin Ambrose with a covert and concealed intentness.
At last, having finished the tune, he turned and surprised the covert look from under her curling black lashes.
He turned, frowning a little, to look down at her and, catching those covert sparkles of her side-glance, smiled.
The order that Leech had mentioned; the Provost’s positive manner; the warning that he had given; the covert threat he had dared to employ, all began to recur to Middleton and worry him.
From his covert he had recognized the visitors, and could not resist the temptation to join them.
There was a slight return of a look which had been once or twice in Still’s downcast eyes, and he raised them to take a covert glance at Jacquelin’s face.
His eyes grew calm and steady again with that covert amusement in them.
The war went on, but it was a silent, covert struggle, and though Beck suspected happenings, he could not know all that transpired.
She wore, too, the covert coat I remembered from the day I saw her first from the wall.
Her hands were thrust into the pockets of her covert coat; she wore a red tam-o’-shanter, that made a bright bit of color in the wood.
She did not wear thecovert coat of the morning, but a red knit jacket, buttoned tight about her.
By and by the shooting party came out of the covert and advanced slowly up the glade.
He stalked it scientifically, and from nearer covert looked at it again.
Four miles of meadow-land lie between Knockdane and Kiltorkan Hill, but Redpad had a map of the country in his head, and he knew that no covert in the country was a surer refuge for a hunted fox.
In fact, there was little enough covert in that part of Knockdane in the winter, and in January, when the foxes were ravenous, the woods were quite bare.
The early January evening began to close in when the home covert was still three miles away, but the scent lay stronger than ever on field and bog.
He had no time to double back into the gorse, and here there was no covert but a few bushes, therefore he headed for the wood.
It was time to be stirring--a strange covert is no refuge to a hunted fox.
His heart failed him--he swung round to the covert again, leaped over Redpad with a snarl, and galloped back up the hill.
He addressed an elderly matron as he spoke, but he gave a covert glance at Pauline, to whom he had just received, through request, the honor of a presentation.
He bent his head and looked at her intently, for a moment, with a covert play of mirth under the crisp, dark flow of his mustache.
Sagaciously hiding in a covert that overlooked a little path leading down to the water's edge, he awaited developments.
And, gracefully lifting up the long skirts of their silk dresses, they lightly ran across the open space between the lake and the thickestcovert of the park.
When she smiles, on the contrary, nature resumes her jollity, and the birds, for a brief moment silenced, recommence their songs amid the leafy covert of the trees.
The sound of his voice was like a clap of thunder coming to interrupt the warbling of birds under the leafy covert of the trees; a dead silence ensued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
