break covert

Example Sentences

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We stood waiting silently for an eternity, as one waits for a hare to break covert before the beaters.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Only the face of the elephant was exposed, and as this was grayish brown, something similar to the colour of the leafless bushes, we were hardly noticeable to anything that might break covert.

From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

"Therefore wait with me," she said;   "For on this little knoll, if anywhere,   There is good chance that we shall hear the hounds:   Here often they break covert at our feet."

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

This was not more than 80 yards across; thus I could command both sides should a bear break covert, when disturbed by my two beaters; there could not have been a more favourable locality.

From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The fox never even had occasion to break covert, and the gay assemblage rode away towards Branspath before two o'clock in the afternoon.

From The Romance of the Coast by Runciman, James