Length -- 7 to 7.3 inches. About one-fourth smaller than the robin. Male -- Head, throat, upper back, tail, and part of wings black. Breast, rump, shoulders, under wing and tail coverts, and under parts bright reddish brown. Whitish-yellow markings on a few tail and wing feathers. Female -- Head and upper parts olive, shading into brown; brighter on head and near tail. Back and wings dusky brown, with pale-buff shoulder-bars and edges of coverts. Throat black.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Raffles, however, had seen the place by daylight, and had come prepared for the special obstacles; already he was reaching up and putting champagne corks on the spikes, and in another moment he had his folded covert-coat across the corks. I stepped back as he raised himself, and saw a little pyramid of slates snip the sky above the gate; as he squirmed over I ran forward, and had my own weight on the spikes and corks and covert-coat when he gave the latter a tug.英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
He left Satan and Bart well outside the town, for even in the dark they might easily be recognized, and then walked straight down the street of Alder. It was a bold thing to do, but he knew that the first thing which is seen and suspected is the skulker who approaches from covert to covert. They knew he had ridden into Alder before in the middle of the night and they might suspect the danger of such another attack, but they surely would not have fear of a solitary pedestrian unless a telltale light were thrown upon his face.英文原著 · 《The Seventh Man》
Seid: seed. Shaw: covert of the wood. Shear: in different directions. First English - sciran, to divide. Shend: blame; shent: blamed. Shete: shoot. Shot-window: according to Ritson, is a window that opens and shuts. Sicker and sad: sure and firm.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
JUNE came. The wild rose swayed above its image along every little shadowed stream, and the scent of wild grapes was sweet in the air and as vagrant as a bluebird's note in autumn. The rhododendrons burst into beauty, making gray ridge and gray cliff blossom with purple, hedging streams with snowy clusters and shining leaves, and lighting up dark coverts in the woods as with white stars. The leaves were full, woodthrushes sang, and bees droned like unseen running water in the woods.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
So up we went past Bee Rock, Preacher's Creek and Little Looney, past the mines where high on a ``tipple'' stood the young engineer looking down at us, and looking after the Blight as we passed on into a dim rocky avenue walled on each side with rhododendrons. I waved at him and shook my head--we would see him coming back. Beyond a deserted log- cabin we turned up a spur of the mountain. Around a clump of bushes we came on a gray-bearded mountaineer holding his horse by the bridle and from a covert high above two more men appeared with Winchesters. The Blight breathed forth an awed whisper:英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
Covert ops are what's forcing Al-Qaeda-- Covert ops were behind Iran-Contra美剧 · 《The News Room》
You should see how I roll on covert hostile actors.美剧 · 《Billions》
They simply don't have the security intelligence to second-guess covert operations while we're facing threats on multiple fronts.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, the security of American citizens is the reason our drone program and other covert operations exist.美剧 · 《House of Cards》