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The dogs have struck the running trail, and their action is totally different from what it was with the first covey.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCEVARIOUSNow Sancho comes up and catches the cold trail, for a covey has certainly been in that place to-day.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCEVARIOUSFrom the grass nine Indians arose, stooped, and scuttled off like a covey of running quail.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEWe were just in time to see Pritchard disappear into a vineyard, and a moment afterwards he raised a covey of partridges.
THE ANIMAL STORY BOOKVARIOUSIf spared by boys and house cats until the hunting season began he would captain a covey.
THOSE TIMES AND THESEIRVIN S. COBBThus a partridge will tumble along before a sportsman, in order to draw away the dogs from her helpless covey.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTSOne startled bird would fly up, followed by several more; then a whole covey would disturb the rest of the flock.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONKnights, if I had known you would have let this covey of partridges sit thus long upon their knees under my signpost.
A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS, VOLUME 10 (OF 15)VARIOUSThe air, freshening with a coming covey of clouds, swayed the tops of the trees with mournful sound.
DAVID DUNNEBELLE KANARIS MANIATESKim ducked under a Mewar camel-driver's greasy armpit and cannoned off a covey of jabbering Sikh matrons.
KIMRUDYARD KIPLINGWORDS RELATED TO COVEY
- agglomeration
- assemblage
- assortment
- band
- batch
- bevy
- blob
- bouquet
- bundle
- caboodle
- chunk
- clump
- cluster
- covey
- crew
- crowd
- fascicle
- flock
- galaxy
- gang
- gathering
- group
- heap
- host
- hunk
- knot
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mob
- multitude
- number
- oodles
- pack
- parcel
- party
- passel
- pile
- quantity
- sheaf
- shebang
- shock
- shooting match
- spray
- stack
- swarm
- team
- thicket
- troop
- tuft
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