We fell in with several coveys of these birds during the day, and my dog ever after gave them the double, and kept them between the gun and herself.
The destructive net sweeps off whole coveys at a time.
It may be fancy, but I have imagined that coveys hatched near railway stations have less than other birds regarded the sportsman's whistle.
In mid-day, when there was but little scent, their nasal organs seemed quite to fail them, and being fast they constantly ran into coveys before they could stop themselves.
The scatt'red coveys meet secure; While here I wander, prest with care, Along the lonely banks of Ayr.
I have before hinted at some of my Friend's Exploits: He has in his youthful Days taken forty Coveys of Partridges in a Season; and tired many a Salmon with a Line consisting but of a single Hair.
Hermann, too, is a fraud, for did he not declare that there were eight fine coveys within a radius of a mile upon this very moor.
When the snow is on the ground, whole coveys are taken in traps, and brought alive to market.
Ten coveys of birds, in the hour and a half that remained to him, he found.
They advanced side by side; the staccato of their shots rang out in the amber air; out of whirling coveys birds tumbled.
Them's the kind of coveys I likes," responded the soldier.
There's no getting work out of the coveys while they is alive, and you know it.
O, what is the bloody use of my telling you coveys any thing?
They should have given the coveys a pint of brandy each, and then they would have been all right," grunted the fellow whom the bushranger called Bill.
Them coveys hain't got much respects for beings of this world or 'tother, I should judge by their treatment of the best specimen of a goblin ever got up in any country.
Them coveys are safe enough," replied Day, pointing to the mountain, from which we were separated by a wall of fire that almost blistered our faces where we stood.
We three coveys ain't no match for thirty coveys, is we?
The turnip-fields are bright green with hope and expectation--and coveys are couching on lazy beds beneath the potato-shaw.
I don't know what would become of these here young chaps if it wasn't for such old coveys as we are--Oh, here comes that cursed Gas!
We remembered the gorse bushes, and knew that the coveyswould not be far from them.
We always considered partridge good game, and sometimes were watching a dozen coveys at the same time.
It was not often, however, that more than three coveys were marked for a night's work.
When abundant, they fall freely before the sportsman's gun; but when the coveys are either small or few, they are treated with forbearance, and enough are left to stock the preserves for the ensuing year.
But the woodpeckers went screaming by, and the shy yellow-hammers flitted noiselessly from tree to tree; while, in the thicket, the cock quails were calling out the coveys for an early breakfast.
Coveys of quails with half-grown chicks were coming out from cover.
Three coveysare marked for a night's work--one in turnips, another among stubble, and a third on grass.
The fluttering coveysfrom the stubble rise, And on swift wing divide the sounding skies; The scatt'ring lead pursues the certain sight, And death in thunder overtakes their flight.
The partridge coveys had whirred up noisily in full view of the passing woodsman, and craned their necks to watch him from the near-by branches.
But now the young coveys were full-fledged and strong of wing, well able to care for themselves.
The manners of the pheasant are solitary, they are seldom found in coveys of more than four or five together, and more usually in pairs, or singly.
The partridges are nearly full grown by the beginning of September, and associated in the usual coveys of from twenty to thirty afford considerable sport to the gunner.
Where the grouse lead their coveys thro' the heather to feed, And the shepherd tents his flock as he pipes on his reed.
Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide, That nurse in their bosom the youth o' the Clyde, Where the grouse lead their coveys thro' the heather to feed, And the shepherd tents his flock as he pipes on his reed.
The partridges were lying well, springing up in fine coveys from the turnips, or from corn-sheaves on the stubble, or in twos and threes, as the coveys were broken up.
Ahead of the wagon coveys of quail broke and ran swiftly in the track until tired, when, with a side movement the tall grass by the border absorbed them.
Coveys of quail, tame as barn-yard fowls, played about the beaten paths, and ran pattering in the dust ahead of each passing team.
Dey's twocoveys runnin' fer Alderman over on de Eas' Side.
As the season advances the coveys break up, and their call is then heard on every side, and often all day long, from dawn until after dark.
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