There by a little fire we found Shalah, and the sloop riding at anchor below a thick covert of trees.

Imogen's two brothers then carried her to a shady covert, and there laying her gently on the grass, they sang repose to her departed spirit, and covering her over with leaves and flowers, Polidore said, "While summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I will daily strew thy sad grave.

" THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE SWALLOW A Swallow, conversing with a Nightingale, advised her to quit the leafy coverts where she made her home, and to come and live with men, like herself, and nest under the shelter of their roofs.

And now the moon had nine times lost her light, When Dian, fainting in the mid-day beams, Found a cool covert, and refreshing streams 80 That in soft murmurs through the forest flow'd, And a smooth bed of shining gravel show'd.

" The clamour and the clang of arms passed down the street as the headlong fury of the chase sweeps by the secret covert where the trembling deer is hidden.

Up to this time the caribou had been let severely alone, though they were very numerous, scattered through the dense coverts in every valley and on every hillside.

Those two rows of feathers are the greater and middle coverts, and all the smallest feathers, next to the front edge of the wing, are called lesser coverts.

Where you have coverts handy to a stream of any kind, there will foxes congregate.

And with the calm, as in vague dreams astray, Hang wan and silver-grey; Like sleepy mænads, who in pale surprise, Half-wakened by a prowling beast, have crept Out of the hidden covert, where they slept, At noon with languid eyes.

For three days Sharon sprayed out over the landscape, into ideal golf-ball covert, where many forever eluded even the keen eyes of Wilbur Cowan, one hundred balls originally purchased by the selecter golfing set of Newbern.

The linings of the wings are pure white with the exception of a brown spot on the tips of the great interior coverts.

Birds sang from invisible coverts; a quail sent up clear flutelike notes; and a lark caroled, seemingly out of the sky.

We got the woodcocka somewhat rara avis in small, isolated coverts on the hills; in addition, the bag contained one snipe, one wild duck, two pheasants, six rabbits, a pigeon, a heron, and some moorhens.

This was the period of the year when the Rockland people were most cautious of wandering in the leafier coverts which skirted the base of The Mountain, and the farmers liked to wear thick, long boots, whenever they went into the bushes.

A splendid audience greeted me in the Opera House, and I gave "Our Girls," bringing many male sinners to repentance, and stirring up some lethargic femmes coverts to a state of rebellion against the existing order of things.

Had one of the fairy-tale heroes materialized, after all, and slipped out of magic coverts to walk with him?

280 He dons his coat of darkness; on the stage Walks, and achieves his wonders, from the eye Of living Mortal covert, "as the moon Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."

They halted at last before a curious shadow in the silvered covert.

It bears upon its churlish face No sign of beauty, art or grace; Not here the silvery coverts glow That April and the angler know.

We saw many suspicious looking coverts, where they might have hidden.

It could hardly have been Belle Isle; since, from its size, it could not be described as a "Sister Isle" to the one where the lily of the valley grew "beneath the oaks' umbrageous covert.

Those on top are the upper coverts; those underneath are the under coverts, or lining of the wings.

Yet despair Touches me not, though pensive as a bird Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare.

Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love.

But he caught her just as she got behind its welcome covert.