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Sentences starting with cover

Cover yourself with your pistol! [2]
Cover him with the quilt. [11]
Cover title reads, in pale red ink, Caxton type, Conversation As It Was By The Social Fire-side In The Time Of The Tudors. [5]
Cover your head, and don't be afraid if you meet bats. [10]

Sentences ending with cover

The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. [4]
The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. [4]
Beyond that end Venters wanted to get, and he concluded the cedars, few as they were, would afford some cover. [13]
The most painful subjects are the unfortunates that have lost a cover. [6]
The hounds are sent into the forest to rouse the deer, and drive him from his cover. [4]
Next came the rattling of chains, the scramble of hoofs in the mire, and here was a wagon with a big canvas cover. [9]
The kerosene lamp on the stand at the head of the bed casts a spectral light on her flushed face, and the thin arms that are restlessly thrown outside the cover. [4]
Thousands of tons of freight on the shore--no cover. [5]
Existence was decorous, marriage an irrevocable step, wives were wives, and the Authorized Version of the Bible was true from cover to cover. [9]
It was a long four-wheeled equipage, over which, as a protection against wind and storm, arched a round, sail-cloth cover. [10]

Sentences containing cover two or more times

It is certain that the present one does not cover the case; and if he got it honestly, it is still clear that he was fool enough to pay for an assignment that does not cover the case. [7]
He gave me Dr. Eliot's "Essays on Field Husbandry," and Mill's "Husby," which I read from cover to cover. [9]
An hour passed, and a shadow came along our line, darting from cover to cover. [9]
Well, now, there ain't anything in this world that sells a book like a pretty cover, and we're going to have a pretty cover for 'Every Other Week' every time. [8]

More example sentences with the word cover in them

We'll see that you get a cheque to cover what you've put out. [9]
When the old woman uses the litter the cover will be removed and people will see her; when it is closed, the most sharp-sighted can not discover who is within. [10]
When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
When the great winds and rains come down from the hills, do not let the floods drown us, nor the woods cover us, nor the snow-slide bury us; and do not let the prairie-fires burn us. [11]
I believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leaving 50,000 who have left otherwise. [7]
This was Diodoros, who, while Alexander was giving his directions to the charioteer, had, under cover of the darkness, sprung into the vehicle from the opposite side. [10]
If my cloak were only not so short; I would like to cover the doves with it. [10]
But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off. [12]
Only a few were burned,--enough to give no cover for Hamilton and his six hundred if they came. [9]
Books are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. [5]
When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. [5]
And Schoolma'am would wear it,--though I made her cover it, as well as I could, with a tea-rose. [6]
In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
A burly wine-grower was elected to represent Dionysus and was seated with nothing but some wreaths of flowers to cover his naked limbs, in a four-wheeled sacrificial car of beaten brass. [10]
Above these the walls were covered with a beautiful dark green material brought from Sais, and the same stuff was used to cover the long divans by the wall. [10]
Nothing in this volume is more amusing and at the same time more poetic and romantic than the story of "Governor Manco and the Soldier," in which this legend is used to cover the exploit of a dare-devil contrabandista. [4]
My hair--oh, a veil will cover it! [10]
He was levying upon the vital forces remaining in him, which, distributed naturally, might cover a year or so, to give him here and now a few moments of unnatural strength for the completion of a hopeless struggle. [11]
He would slip upon her, you see, under cover of innocent and unimportant questions. [5]
From this material, under cover of "liberty of speech," "liberty of the press," and "habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. [7]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
If the Caliban told Rudyard what he knew, there could be but one end to it all; and Jasmine's life, if not ruined, must ever be, even at the best, lived under the cover of magnanimity and compassion. [11]
The chase led to the right cover, and how well the hounds had done, how stoutly Emir, his swift hunter, had followed. [10]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
As he intended to make the move under cover of darkness, he wanted most to be able to tell where to climb up. [13]
In his anxiety to keep under cover he must have lost himself in this offshoot of Deception Pass, and thereby in some unaccountable manner, missed the canyon with the trails. [13]
Procure a carpet to cover the empty place for the present. [10]
One whole day to cover ten miles--an endless path of agony, in which Jim went down again and again, but came up blinded by snow and drift, and cut as with lashes by the angry wind. [11]
So we 'ad to cover 'em back into the zeriba of the seraphim--which is our glorious selves. [11]
The cover and title-page were lost, but at the head of the first page these words were written in large letters: "The Book of my Life. [10]
At the same time two of the soldiers above lowered their barrels to cover him. [9]
There--let me cover thy head also--thou'lt be warm the sooner. [5]
Owning the property through her Board of Waxworks was safe enough, still it was sound business to set another grip on it to cover accidents, and she did it. [5]
I smiled at this, for my Lord was never within his income, and I made no doubt he had signed a note to cover my indebtedness. [9]
The woods warn't thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Harney cover Buck with his gun; and then he rode away the way he come--to get his hat, I reckon, but I couldn't see. [5]
Farther and farther they went afield for game, and always they grumbled sorely against this horde which had driven the deer from his cover and the buffalo from his wallow. [9]
For some natures there is no nurture of love like the security of family protection, under cover of which there is so little to excite the alarm of a timid maiden. [4]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
Let us make the world pleasant, and throw a cover over the refuse. [4]
Had they seen the thing done, there would have been sensation, but no mystery; but night, secrecy, distance, mystery, all begot, not a reaction in Mazarine's favour, but a protest against the thing being done under cover, as it were, unhelped by popular observation. [11]
The men pitched the tents with some little show of cheerfulness, and we were snugly under cover when the night shut down. [5]
Under cover of the shelter, she turned and smiled at him. [11]
Pound had set the seal of his approval, with a glazed picture cover, representing Daniel in the lions' den and an angel standing beside him. [9]
If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your operation, you can be reinforced by thirty thousand men. [7]
I travel on the pass which the Northeastern gives me as a legislator, and I'm thinking seriously of getting Mr. Flint to send me an annual, now that I'm in politics and have to cover the State. [9]
He hadn't run the others to cover yet, but was on their track. [5]
So long as the mother's wings cover it, the young bird doesn't fly so thoughtlessly out of the warm nest into the wide world. [10]
He had marked the man's charitable action, and admired his attempt to cover it. [9]
It is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. [5]
When he gained the cover of cedars he paused to rest and look, and it was then he saw how the trees sprang from holes in the bare rock. [13]
Then they take the bodies and wound them round some casks in a great hole, and cover it all up. [11]
It is said that the cap and gown will be used to cover untidiness, to conceal the makeshift of a disorderly and unsightly toilet. [4]
Mrs. Pomfret will tell you how he means to cover the State with good roads next year, and take a house in Washington the year after. [9]
Then, stooping, he stole from one cover to another, taking advantage of rocks and bunches of sage, until he had reached the thickets under the opposite wall. [13]
The sky was still bright, but if the north wind continued to blow, the clouds which seemed to be rising from the sea must soon cover it. [10]
Lady Helen.--Nay, it sprouted two yeres syne; I can scarce more than cover it with my hand now. [5]
Shall I be so unnatural, as not to give bread to the hungrie, or uncharitable, as not to cover the naked? [4]
The reigns of six of the Henrys cover 227 years. [5]
Spies had been sent under cover of the rain and darkness to inquire into it. [5]
I want you, said I, to look up an old book of mighty little value,--one of your ten-cent vagabonds would be the sort of thing,--but an old beggar, with a cover like this, and lay it by for me. [6]
It had a rude brass-wire cover to it, and a little coarse iron chain suspended from the bowl, with an iron splinter attached to loosen up the tobacco and pick your teeth with. [5]
The tree is rotten to the core and can crush no one in its fall, but it will cover all who stand near it with dust and rubbish. [10]
His disordered imagination represented to him a crowd of persons stealing towards them beneath the cover of the bushes, lurking in every ditch, and peeping from the boughs of every rustling tree. [12]
He did not reckon with a voice which, under cover of easy deliberation, had a convincing quality; with a manner of old-fashioned courtesy and stateliness. [11]
But besides the reading there is now and then some talking, and persons talking in an arbor do not always remember that latticework, no matter how closely the vines cover it, is not impenetrable to the sound of the human voice. [6]
As to the proviso to Section 114 I think it was put in to cover possible cases, by way of caution, and not to authorize the J. P. to go forward and finish up whatever might have been begun by him. [7]
Although she has provided so many ways of getting rid of unsatisfactory members and officials, she was still afraid she might have left a life-preserver lying around somewhere, therefore she devised a rule to cover that defect. [5]
But now, vast property, gigantic interests, family connections, webs of party, cover the land with a net-work that immensely multiplies the dangers of war. [6]
Ulrich had been present when the artist gave her his portrait, and saw her, overwhelmed with joy and gratitude, cover her face with her hands and burst into loud sobs. [10]
Dermestes lardarius,--he said, pointing to a place where the edge of one side of the outer cover had been slightly tasted by some insect.--Very fond of leather while they 're in the larva state. [6]
Rake away a place among the embers, lay it there, and cover it an inch deep with hot ashes. [5]
It is a perfectly still morning, with a brilliant sun, and very hot--outside; but I am under cover of the linen hood, and it is cool and shady in here. [5]
Jethro stepped out, passing Mr. Worthington as though he had already forgotten that gentleman's existence, and seized an armful of bark that lay under cover of a lean-to. [9]
There were seven papers in the number, and a poem on the last page of the cover, and he had found some graphic comment for each. [8]
Between the last page and the cover of the blank-book, which was confided to me, I found a continuation by a later Ueberhell. [10]
If they attack our center we, having the center battery on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and retreat to the dip by echelons. [2]
M. T. Ciceronis Opera,--a dozen of 'em,--one of 'em minus half his cover, a poor one-legged cripple, six months ago,--now see him. [6]
Then I ran on again up the creek, heedless of cover, stumbling over logs and trailing vines, when all at once a dozen bronze forms glided with the speed of deer across my path ahead. [9]
Toward the center of this circle the sage-brush grew smaller and farther apart He was about to sheer off to the right, where thickets and jumbles of fallen rock would afford him cover, when he ran right upon a broad cattle trail. [13]
Here, under cover of the tall brush, he turned west and ran on to the place where he had hidden his rifle. [13]
On the morning of November 4th, under the cover of a thick fog, the treacherous Spaniards, commanded by Romero, Vargas and Valdez entered the fortress. [10]
What a city of idiots we must be not to have covered this glorious bay with gondolas and wherries, as we have just learned to cover the ice in winter with skaters! [6]
Let the dust of forgetfulness come and cover the past. [11]
The pretty town of Asheville is seen to cover a number of elevations gently rising out of the valley, and the valley, a rich agricultural region, well watered and fruitful, is completely inclosed by picturesque hills, some of them rising to the dignity of mountains. [4]
What then becomes of all their sophistry about Adams not being fool enough to forge an assignment that would not cover the case? [7]
These men were of a class who run for cover before a battle begins, and can never be kept in the fighting-line except with the bayonet in the small of their backs. [11]
Under cover of obtaining help of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and which attracted him. [2]
The Judge has not yet seen fit to find any fault with the position that I took in regard to those seven interrogatories, which were certainly broad enough, in all conscience, to cover the entire ground. [7]
This Spaniard is not deaf and dumb; you've let that slip without intending it; you can't cover that up now. [5]
Then I heard my name called again, and I stepped at once from under cover, and there indeed was Joan, but not looking as she had looked in the dream. [5]
How wet must my Hans be, who had ridden forth in court array, without a cloke to cover him. [10]
Riches cover a multitude of sins in the most virtuous community in the world. [9]
You know how much I value your taste, and I'd like to have you look at the design for the cover of the first number: they're going to have a different one for every number. [8]
But what is most important is, that the ladies should crochet nets to cover over the strawberries. [4]
When the proper moment arrives, I lift the cover of the urn and take out any manuscript it may contain. [6]
Such alone can meet and cover all cavils. [7]
The noise was meant to cover the advance of David's men. [11]
Then they fling me beside the fire, and they cover up the hole with the gold and the bodies. [11]
The "two simple lines," of course, were the train rails under the bear's feet, and completed the striking cover design of the Overland monthly. [5]

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