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 Joseph Conrad
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 Sir Samuel White Baker
This would compel him to break covert, either directly from the swamp, or by one of the dry gorges mentioned.
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert
First to break covert was Frederick, Mr. Fletcher's assistant.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
"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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
