How To Use Covey In A Sentence
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Sadly, the 38 bobwhite reported by only 5 observers, plus a covey of 6 seen before the count, confirms the rapid decline of these once abundant Cape birds.
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As I strolled along a heavily used game trail, a covey of wild turkeys fled before me and hid in a thicket of wild roses.
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I met a police officer that works the canine unit in Albany last year that invited me to hunt some of his fine timberdoodle land he said it looks like the forest floor is comeing up like a huge quail covey.
Doggone Good!
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The covey was a large one, composed of two or three broods of young prairie fowl, and I struck on the exact place, a slight hollow filled with low brush and tall grass, where they were lying.
III. The Grouse of the Northern Cattle Plains
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During the breeding season, coveys break up into breeding pairs that spread out across the home range to nest.
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Looking for a shotgun sport that is as unpredictable as a covey of quail?
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In two days, I walked past staunch points into approximately 70 coveys of wild birds.
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Instead of holding individual territories, both species form coveys, which are flocks of 4-6 fused family groups.
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With my experience in dogfighting, it seems to be people who have extra time on their hands and have a need to exhibit some sort of macho image," Covey says.
Sayers: Vick 'should be punished' if allegations true
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We've continued to fund your research, even though the only results we've seen is a covey of crayfish.
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A sighingly lovely covey of youths stares at the cartography with a smouldering incomprehension.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hullo, my covey! What's the row?
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Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of ... mariners | Comment | Recommend
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Over our feet, like coveys of snipe in a bog, rose shoals of fish, of the genus monoptera, which have no other fins but their tail.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English
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For Covey, the solution to reactivity is to subordinate impulse, moods, and feelings to chosen ideals.
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Covey Island Boatworks, award winning builders of hand-crafted yachts, power and sailboats, has brought that idea into dry dock developing a prototype wood and epoxy prefab that applies boatbuilding principles directly to an extreme Arctic home.
2008 January | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
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Asked why a high-profile athlete would risk so much by engaging in dogfighting, Humane Society of the United States director of disaster services Randy Covey said he's seen this sort of thing before.
Sayers: Vick 'should be punished' if allegations true
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In non-breeding seasons, Northern Bobwhites congregate in coveys of up to 20 birds.
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While previewing a new manuscript from my friend Stephen Covey, I came across some terribly dispiriting figures from a Harris Poll of 23,000 full-time U.S. workers in key industries.
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And, as with feral hogs, many coveys go unhunted during the deer season for fear of disrupting the pastures.
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Anyone who has ever winged a bird in an area holding other birds knows that a dog can be tracking a wounded bird and then come along another covey.
Training Your Dog to Track Wounded Deer
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The dogs had flushed a skulking covey of bobwhites.
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Quail coveys broke up and the male birds staked out breeding territories.
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The working stiff is not a white-collar writer rubbing elbows with a covey of billionaires.
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Our covey of jurors were all handed a 27-page questionnaire.
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She took immediate command of the little covey of groupies.
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I got a strange feeling and looked behind me and there he was a real nice 8 point buck no more than twenty yards away staring at me like a bird dog pointing a covey of quail.
Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Week Three!
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When we had put up a covey out of range and marked where they went down in a potato patch or field, perhaps of lucern or clover, a small boy would fly a kite made in the form of a hawk over the field.
Face to Face with Kaiserism
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While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a _paisano_ bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.
Sixes and Sevens
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With the covey gone, I decided to photograph the turtle.
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Across the meadow, to dine on the remembrance of field mice -- alas! safe now under the crust; along the brook, where he once caught frogs; through the thicket, where the grouse were hatched; past the bullbrier tangle, where the covey of quail once rested nightly; into the farmyard, where the dog is loose and the chickens are safe under lock and key, instead of roosting in trees; across the highway, and through the swamp, and into the big bare empty woods; till in the sad gray morning light he digs under the wild apple tree and sits down on the snow to eat a frozen apple, lest his stomach cry too loudly while he sleeps the day away and tries to forget that he is hungry.
Secret of the Woods
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The idea of course being that one could rack out the slug and rack in shot when a covey is encountered.
Bucking Slug Recoil
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Got into alot of good bobwhite coveys over the years, the last year we went we got into some blue quail which havent been in our area for a long time, kind of exciting.
What are the best states and best areas within the state for quail hunting? Are Rattlers a problem?
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Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of home run balls at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby and 78th All-Star Game from San Francisco.
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He cribs liberally from Stephen Covey, the author of the bestselling business guide Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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A covey of quail took off, too, and I began feeling like Attila the Hun tromping through the forest.
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And whan thei of the contree herden it, thei senten messangeres to him with lettres, that seyden thus: What may ben y now to that man, to whom alle the world is insuffisant: thou schalt fynde no thing in us, that may cause the to warren azenst us: for wee have no ricchesse, ne none wee coveyten: and alle the godes of our contree ben in comoun.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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One morning he pointed the only covey of quail I saw in Iowa all season.
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I had now to this extent "backslidden" from this point in the slave's religious creed; and I soon had occasion to make my fallen state known to my Sunday-pious brother, Covey.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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A covey of sprightly grey partridge look back and trundle on.
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That was Conner's first thought when the revelers exploded out of sight like a covey of quail.
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He flushed Cochrane from the woods like a frightened covey of Mississippi quail.
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At least they were on time; he spotted a covey of white uniforms clustered around the guards, signing in.
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Wood is the oldest boatbuilding material and the best, according to Covey Island Boatworks.
PREFAB FRIDAY: A ‘House Boat’ for the Arctic | Inhabitat
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The former grows up and during the fall and winter forms one of the covey which is content to wander a mile or two, here and there, in search of good feeding grounds.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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Flocks of migratory shorebirds are yet to arrive, but small coveys of rock ptarmigan are already roaming about.
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I suppose this is what they call a covey in these parts.
The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
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The Big Nurse comes into the day room with her covey of student nurses and her basket of notes.
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It's like quail hunting: A short, light 20-gauge gun is faster than a big, heavy 12 in covering a covey rise.
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We park in the draw where the hunter's dog first jumped a small covey of Hungarian partridge.
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A little covey of fingernails scratched down into the corner, and when I tilted it back the other way, they slid to another.
GENIE ON THE LOOSE
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Small indigenous birds, such as titmice, chipmunks, pipits and squinches, are constantly seen in coveys or even bevies just now.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920
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They let me stumble about on the trails for a time before my clumsiness flushed a covey of doves from their rest.
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That mother plant rewarded me with a covey, each bloom yielding numerous seeds.
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A fluttering of buona seras filled the air around us, as if, in crossing the threshold that separated the stone landing from the wooden porch, we had startled a small covey of happy birds and they were brushing our ears with their soft, warm wings.
The Italian Summer
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You remember Covey from his megaseller, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," which has helped millions organize their lives and their thinking.
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Now, however, a covey of intellectuals have suggested that technology has changed the battlefield again.
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The first crisp, clear day of moderate wind should provide a glorious backdrop for staunch points over big coveys.
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Just past a covey of restaurants, is well-established facility that can handle any problem.
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Grey partridge are down to a handful of coveys and look as if they will become extinct unless concerted effort is made.
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The five remaining huddled close to one another, rocking nervously side to side like a covey of quail before a bird-dog.
NAKED EMPIRE
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A covey of museums of modern art sprang up on these shores.
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President Reagan's lack of interest in the details might be fine fun for the coveys of arms control quails.
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We put up 13 coveys during the morning and 12 in the afternoon and quit at 5 p.m. with a four-man, 60-bobwhite limit.
