The dog roused the covey of quail while searching for the ball in the bushes. From LearnThat.org.
I suppose this is what they call a covey in these parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference
II found a covey, and Larsen flushed them and shot. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
In attendance around her, a covey of supple young gangsters. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream Lay In Wait] Reference
"You have flushed a new covey," said Winthrop, with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Apparently, this gentleman knocked down a bird out of a covey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference
"Because I want the whole covey at one bag," Field said coolly. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
During the night they had fled and scattered like a covey of quail. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
All of which, assisted by the advent of a covey of flying fishes and a. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
The vice president and two others got out of the car to walk up the covey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006] Reference
At six months he set his first covey of quail, and remained perfectly staunch. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Activity beats about a cover like an untrained dog, never lighting on the covey. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
A covey of prairie chicken, fat and fit, whirred into the air and rocketed away. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
He'd nearly always get eight or ten out uv a covey an 'sometimes the whole covey. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives] Reference
"He is a strange-looking old covey any how," said one of the boys in an undertone. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
You move in to break the covey of quail, and they explode in a flurry of activity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference
Ayla took Wolf, who ran ahead and in a short time flushed up a covey of ptarmigan. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Gloucestershire, a covey of mixed white and brown partridges were reported in 1897. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
"Well, what did they squeeze you into this jug for, my covey?" asked the eldest boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton] Reference
He has the sportsman's eye which, in a covey of partridges, marks its bird at a glance. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As a matter of fact, he was near by, hidden in some high straw, pointing a covey of birds. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
M. O'BRIEN: Well, over the weekend, the vice president's quarry was a covey (ph) of quail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference
I once shot on the moor three brown and one red-leg, out of the same covey, all young birds. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
A covey of young men loiter by the exit, voices excited, muscle tees framing black-inked tats. From Wordnik.com. [Statistics (or: Walking to Work through Lexington Market)] Reference
Now Sancho comes up and catches the cold trail, for a covey has certainly been in that place to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
'When the monarch of Scotland sprung this strong covey of his favourite game, they afforded the Privy. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
He hauled them out, and the light revealed the hems of a covey of sheets and a half dozen pillow cases. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
A covey of quail sprang up before her and she screamed, frightened at the sudden thunder of their wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
There was a covey of partridges on the lawn this morning, and my squirrels come up to the porch to be fed. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The king hath no more chance than a butterfly three days at sea amongst a covey of Mother Carey's chickens. From Wordnik.com. [Cromwell] Reference
The dogs have struck the running trail, and their action is totally different from what it was with the first covey. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
She darted from the shop, the reporter right at her heels, but the chasing of his covey to corner was not easily accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
An entire covey numbering sometimes twelve or fifteen will settle for the night in a compact circular group with heads pointed outward. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
England, with the scent of autumn leaves, and the whir of a covey of birds rising from the stubble, and he longed for partridge-shooting. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
Early this morning there was a large covey up in a tree just across the creek from our tent, looking over at us in a most insolent manner. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
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