All 3 Uses of
covert
in
Oliver Twist
- 'The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot.†
Chpt 16 *
- During the silence, the Jew looked restlessly about the room, as if to assure himself that there were no appearances of Sikes having covertly returned.†
Chpt 26
- A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(covert as in: a covert plan) done in a secret or hidden way