Not a leaf is stirring here; but the moon overhead (now of a good bigness) is obscured and partly revealed in a whirling covey of thin storm-clouds.
For instance, if a neighbouring vicar has given notice that after a certain date he means to shoot over his own glebe, your delight is all the keener when you all but annihilate a large covey of birds whose home is on the glebe.
A covey of water-fowl, which hoarsely shrieking rose up from the rushes, corroborated the truth of this exclamation.
With a melancholy expression he cast a look at thecovey of wild ducks in the distance.
George, it turned out, had knocked down a whole covey of small birds, and several of them got busy plucking the feathers from these.
I see that there is a covey of flying fish already finished.
As some baskets of shells and cement for sticking them on were in the grotto, Harry, with May's assistance, tried his skill and produced a very creditable flying fish in addition to the covey she had commenced.
As long as any of the covey remain unsprung, you ought not to pick up one dead bird, though you should have a dozen on the ground.
Send him in the direction the covey has taken--the chances are great that the bird is travelling towards the same point.
If the dog that found the covey be not able to wind the bird you have shot, make one of the other dogs take a large circuit.
Three hen pheasants and a covey of partridges that have been dusting themselves here move away without much haste at the approach of footsteps--the pheasants into the thickets, and the partridges through the gateway.
Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey of young men around him.
And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of partridges.
As a matter of fact, he was near by, hidden in some high straw, pointing a covey of birds.
At six months he set his first coveyof quail, and remained perfectly staunch.
Presently he noticed a covey of partridges flying in a westerly direction, and shortly after, another covey going the same way.
Pete Rustad owns this farm, and he told me he saw a small covey of chickens in the west forty, last week.
Swede farm boy, and these foreigners, they all got hides like a covey of rhinoceroses .
Among the berries we came upon a covey of ptarmigan feeding.
I have known pot-hunters to shoot into a covey in the early morning before they began to feed, killing almost every one.
They do," he admitted, "but they never tried to stalk a coveyof boom specialists before.
Is it not rather a whole covey of quail, mother and young creeping along the vine?
So he pretended to hunt quail--in a country where a covey rose and scattered beyond gorges over which neither dog nor man could follow.
A covey of partridges rose, and Valentine, who was a little in advance, fired both barrels without effect.
His sight is dull and sinews stiff; never again will Andrew Fisher mark a covey down as they skim across the uplands.
From the grass nine Indians arose, stooped, and scuttled off like a covey of running quail.
What was left of the Mexicans disappeared quicker than they had come, and the three of the Winchesters scuttled back to cover like a spent covey of quail.
He didn't know that every covey he found, every bird he retrieved, was setting a price as it were on his head, dooming him in his old age to exile under a strange master in a strange land.
And here came all the hens to him, half flying like a covey of quail about to alight.
In the edge of a straw field looked down upon by stars he rushed a covey on the roost.
That case has been tested in this very state, where a dog was on the track settin' a covey of birds in the adjoinin' field.
Then Peerless II found a coveyand Larsen flushed them and shot.
All excited, Tom advanced, and a coveyof birds rose.
On top of that steep hill, yonder by that dead pine, Prince had held a covey an hour one stormy day in a gale of wind that threatened to blow him off his feet.
At six months he set his first covey of quail, and though he was trembling with the excited joy of one who knows he has found his life's work, still he remained staunch several minutes.
The former grows up and during the fall and winter forms one of the covey which is content to wander a mile or two, here and there, in search of good feeding grounds.
As we walk through the October woods a covey of ruffed grouse springs up before us, overhead a flock of robins dashes by, and the birds scatter to feed among the wild grapes.
When a covey of quail is flushed, occasionally two birds will collide, at times meeting with such force that both are stunned.
More than half the covey of partridges were bagged; and they had such capital luck, as the men called it, that Stephen soon entered into the daring spirit of the adventure.
Whilst exploring it we startled a large covey of shag, numbering quite a thousand, which, to judge by the accumulation of guano, appeared to roost there habitually.
I soon descried the ostrich, which was hurrying along as fast as its legs would carry it, wings drooping and neck outstretched, with the whole covey of dogs close on its heels.
A covey of partridges flew over only just above the stone, and within a few inches of their heads which were concealed by it.
They counted fourteen--the covey went straight out across the New Sea, eastwards towards the Nile.
The old forester was mightily diverted, and laughed aloud at the notion that I could be frightened in such manner by a covey of partridges, and that I had then only shot at random among them.
Then we go to our appointed station, where Franz has informed me, that there are a noble covey of partridges.
How silently and swiftly the birds of prey come wheeling round the curve of the cliff, and, skimming the ground, pick up and carry off one of a covey before even its companions can collect their wits to raise an alarm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
