cove
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But south of the tunnel, Highway 1 still parallels a stretch of towering cliffs overlooking a sheltered cove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
We headed not for an orchard but to an island estate in downeast Maine where apple trees overlook a quiet cove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
There have been a number of similar rockfalls at the same cove, including a major landslip earlier this year, which occurred after days of heavy rainfall.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024
With an approaching storm threatening hurricane-force winds, the Allankay abandons the krill fleet and finds shelter in a quiet cove protected by the craggy rim of a still active underwater volcano.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
She would take them bathing from the boat, she would have a picnic supper at her cottage in the cove.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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It centers on a romantic home still in touch with its original design; across 8,000 square feet are carved stone columns, stained glass windows, arched doorways, colorful tile and coved ceilings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2021
Though it is state-of-the-art, the gallery looks splendidly 19th-century, with a coved ceiling and an overhead window that lets daylight in.
From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014
There are 26 rooms featuring coved ceilings, cornices and natural light from skylights in 18 of the galleries.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2012
This led by the late 1960s to works known as light encasements, squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2012
The ceiling was coved, and surrounded by a rich frieze of carving.
From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William
Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
This day of proceedings was characterized by those coving the trial as tense, as LaPierre repeatedly "tried to insert justifications for expenditures which Sheehan elicited in his questions."
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2021
I like to think the old face is still underneath like a piece of buried Victorian coving, snarling and bantering to itself behind the immobile corporate façade.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
In the bratini and kovsh the bulging form of ornament, the coving up of the bottoms of the bowls, and the use of twisted lobes are very common.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
As at Hope Lodge a broad plaster coving is the principal feature of the simple cornice.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
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