Six great steamers full came up from the Lower River, and still the small craft kept on flocking like coveys of sea-fowl through the Upper Lakes, each party saying, "The crowd is behind.

To speak freely, there are such Coveys of Coquets about this Town, that if the Peace were not kept by some impertinent Tongues of their own Sex, which keep them under some Restraint, we should have no manner of Engagement upon them to keep them in any tolerable Order.

"I'll handle this covey for Mr. Swygert," said Larsen to the judges, his voice smooth and plausible, on his face a smile.

They are amazingly prolific; I have often found twelve or fourteen coveys in the course of a few hours shooting; this will appear extraordinary, when you are informed there are no game laws in America, and that all ranks of citizens, or even a negro, may destroy them in any manner he pleases.

The master, who would have lost his slave's wages for a year if he had broken the contract with Covey before the year's end, sent Douglass back to his taskmaster.

[Footnote 60: Letter of Charles Covey to Howell Cobb, Nov. 30, 1853.

In an endless long procession, Formless, countless of their kind Circle us in flying coveys Like the leaves in Autumn wind.

we set each other like two pointers backing in a stubble, with a covey between them, while the femme Dixon kept fussing with an introduction'Sir Hicks, Sir James,Sir James, Sir Hicks!'