"Covered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... formed openings, escaped the marvelous mass of basaltic stones with which the plain we were now crossing was covered. We were trampling our way over heavy rocks of dark grey color, which, while cooling, had been moulded into six-sided prisms. In the "back distance" we could see a number of flattened cones, which formerly were ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne
... There are only one or two small wooden houses visible, and three thatched cottages. Down at the water's edge, and deep in the surf, crowds of soldiers, civilians, and half-naked natives are busy hauling on the ropes attached to the large surfboats, which are covered to overflowing with human beings. Those in the boats, as well as those in the surf and on the beach, are in a state of high excitement, and more or less demonstrative, while the seamen from a neighbouring sloop of war, who manage ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne
... county in common with others, the practice of building what are called head-dykes was of very remote antiquity. The head-dyke was drawn across the head of a farm, when nature had marked the boundary betwixt the green pastures and that portion of hill which was covered totally or partially with heath. Above this fence the young cattle, the horses, the sheep and goats were kept in the summer months. The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. (4)Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. (5)But every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same as if she were shaven. (6)For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... scarcely a week passed without our captain taking us ashore to play at soldiers, and sometimes two or even three times a week. The bar has many qualities suitable for military operations; a rocky grass-covered mound at the western extremity in particular forming an excellent position for the field guns and assaulting parties. This spot will be always remembered by our ship's company by the name of Fort Cleveland, a name they themselves bestowed on it, because the captain, who conducted these landing ...
— In Eastern Seas - The Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 • J. J. Smith
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