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  • Anyone who implies that Lord Darlington was liaising covertly with a known enemy is just conveniently forgetting the true climate of those times.†   (source)
  • Chronicler watched him covertly, finding it hard to believe that this man humming to himself and cutting sausage could be the same person who had stood behind the bar just minutes ago, dark-eyed and terrible.†   (source)
  • He glanced covertly at the male guests nearest him.†   (source)
  • I retrieved the list of questions from my handbag and covertly positioned the paper under a glass salt shaker.†   (source)
  • She looked, covertly, at him again—her guilt began.†   (source)
  • Yet he smiled covertly as he examined the drawing she had made of the thing she wanted.†   (source)
  • I came down off the roof and covertly went next door.†   (source)
  • Maybe because Drew shows up, knocks on the door, and asks her to be a guest at a well-chaperoned dinner on a Sunday evening, while I let her covertly hole up in my garage, late at night, with no adult supervision anywhere.†   (source)
  • "Well, once you've dried off a bit, you'll have to leave," said Charles, covertly hiding the good bottle of brandy behind the inferior brands.†   (source)
  • Nately stared at her covertly from his over-stuffed yellow armchair, marveling at the bored, phlegmatic strength with which she accepted the mass rejection.†   (source)
  • In Yongming County, all women who want a healthy child steal outright—but with the pretense of covertness—a pair of shoes from the goddess's altar.†   (source)
  • In other words, her soul did condone the proceedings, albeit covertly.†   (source)
  • I went to Sunday school, not so much to study the Bible as to sit, covertly, by pretty girls.†   (source)
  • Further, and at great expense and risk to myself and my associates here in Moscow, I have covertly funneled monies to you so as to make your lives more comfortable.†   (source)
  • She saw no-one who showed any interest in her, either openly or covertly.†   (source)
  • Every eye on the block, either openly or covertly, was on the door of the car when it opened.†   (source)
  • Unless she's been spying, completely covertly, for a very long time.†   (source)
  • I let her think that I and my colleagues went to a company and covertly observed a warehouse or laboratory or retail floor, then exposed all the cheats and criminals.†   (source)
  • And then an evil thought, again covertly insinuated into his will by the crystal shard, came upon the wizard.†   (source)
  • And so late the following morning he journeyed across the channel to inform Graham Seymour, the chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, that the Office had been covertly watching a high-ranking ISIS operative living in the Bethnal Green section of East London.†   (source)
  • They would point to him covertly as he went by, as men will point to an athlete of the past, 'and say: "That's Leainas.†   (source)
  • Andrew covertly glanced at the mantel clock.†   (source)
  • I was in two minds as to what to say and looked covertly at him.†   (source)
  • Then his eye caught the tall, ominous, familiar figure crossing the square, watching him covertly over its shoulder.†   (source)
  • And she would linger there for hours, staring at the piles of sticky colored sweets, letting the fine grain stored in the sacks round the walls trickle through her fingers, looking covertly at the little Greek girl whom she was not allowed to play with, because her mother said her parents were dagoes.†   (source)
  • covert funding for the rebels
  • covert intelligence gathering
  • Jace was studying the menu, which gave Clary the opportunity to covertly study him.†   (source)
  • Catching Harry's eye, he nodded covertly to a point some fifty yards away.†   (source)
  • I was by this point well on top of the situation, but the gentlemen went on laughing covertly.†   (source)
  • Passmore deeply moved, yet quiet, studied him covertly.†   (source)
  • Conroy smiled covertly at the simplicity of this young beauty.†   (source)
  • I covertly used some sympathy to start the fire while Denna cobbled together a couple cooking skewers out of forked willow branches.†   (source)
  • She had watched him as he'd talked—covertly, she'd thought, but she knew now that Jace noticed everything—watching the light glint off his pale hair, the quick movements of his graceful hands, the flex of the muscles in his arms as he'd gestured.†   (source)
  • On his part Conroy studied her covertly, trying to adjust his slow mind to this astonishing new state of things, and to decide what a man's proper attitude might be toward such a girl.†   (source)
  • Covertly, I watched her face, which was the face of an old woman; it had fallen in, the eyes were sunken and lightless; soon she would be dying, too.†   (source)
  • I watched him covertly, wondering whether I should say, "You must be prepared: this new association will not be taken at face value, there will be vilifiers who will say it was done not for you, but for your mother, who will seek to destroy your peace"; but then I thought resolutely, I will not take the fire from his resolve or sow suspicion between them, and so I held my peace.†   (source)
  • Often, during the day, she watched him covertly, not like a mistress watching a servant work, but with a fearful curiosity, remembering those dreams.†   (source)
  • Covertly, she studied the girls at the long table.†   (source)
  • Everybody was looking, covertly or openly, at Emily Brent.†   (source)
  • His voice was a little sullen, quite alert, covertly alert.†   (source)
  • …urchin I had once seen in Naples, capering derisively, with obscene, unambiguous gestures, before a party of English tourists; as he told the tale of his evening at the gaming table, one could see in the roll of his eye just how he had glanced, covertly, over the dwindling pile of chips at his step-father's party; while we had been rolling one another in the mud at football and gorging ourselves with crumpets, Anthony had helped oil fading beauties on sub-tropical sands and had sipped…†   (source)
  • But Scarlett never lost the old feeling that he was watching her covertly, knew that if she turned her head suddenly she would surprise in his eyes that speculative, waiting look, that look of almost terrible patience that she did not understand.†   (source)
  • The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper whom he met before his entrance into this region.†   (source)
  • He watched her covertly: was this all there was in marriage, this evasion and suspicion and lack of ease?†   (source)
  • So she seems to muse upon the mounting road while the slowspitting and squatting men watch her covertly, believing that she is thinking about the man and the approaching crisis, when in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives.†   (source)
  • Of course he would hate her now—now that they had both been saved by the indignant squaring of Melanie's thin shoulders and the love and outspoken trust which had been in her voice as she crossed the glassy floor to slip her arm through Scarlett's and face the curious, malicious, covertly hostile crowd.†   (source)
  • People covertly stared at her on the street.†   (source)
  • The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse.†   (source)
  • Don Carlos, who had been covertly watching them, now made his scrutiny open, even aggressive.†   (source)
  • During two or three days, Hugo, in whose ward and charge the King was, did what he covertly could to make the boy uncomfortable; and at night, during the customary orgies, he amused the company by putting small indignities upon him—always as if by accident.†   (source)
  • Quite lately he (Claggart) had begun to suspect that on the gun decks some sort of movement prompted by the sailor in question was covertly going on, but he had not thought himself warranted in reporting the suspicion so long as it remained indistinct.†   (source)
  • And when she had uttered her request, she would watch my aunt covertly, trying to guess from the expression on her face what she thought of it, and how she would reply.†   (source)
  • Life shuddered at such perfect precision, regarded it as something deadly, as the secret of death itself; and Hans Castorp thought he understood why the architects of ancient temples had intentionally and covertly built little deviations from symmetry into their rows of columns.†   (source)
  • I watched him covertly, just as though I had suspected him of an intention to take a jolly good rise out of me.†   (source)
  • His eyes were covertly upon her.†   (source)
  • His father, remonstrative, but covertly proud of the excess, had paid his bills and brought him home.†   (source)
  • It meant a pretty tidy lot of discussing, what with the doctors warning each other about the bad effects of discussions on the health of the old ladies, and warning me covertly against each other, and saying that old Mr Hurlbird might have died of heart, after all, in spite of the diagnosis of his doctor.†   (source)
  • Another day went by, in which he worked less and pondered more and all the time covertly watched Bess.†   (source)
  • So I tell him honourably (you are to know I have written to him about all this) that we are at issue and that we had better be at issue openly than covertly.†   (source)
  • In the compliments which Dom Claude addressed to Jacques Coictier, there was that sardonical, biting, and covertly mocking accent, and the sad cruel smile of a superior and unhappy man who toys for a moment, by way of distraction, with the dense prosperity of a vulgar man.†   (source)
  • 'The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot.†   (source)
  • An observer would have perceived that he wished to take a better look at Newman, whom he covertly examined, while he stood stroking his mustache.†   (source)
  • Here the lecture began, but Jo heard very little of it, for while Professor Sands was prosing away about Belzoni, Cheops, scarabei, and hieroglyphics, she was covertly taking down the address of the paper, and boldly resolving to try for the hundred-dollar prize offered in its columns for a sensational story.†   (source)
  • "Then you shall know, Deerslayer," returned the girl, gladly availing herself of the opportunity of indirectly extolling the qualities which had so strongly interested her in her listener; hoping by these means covertly to approach the subject nearest her heart.†   (source)
  • Beyond this; it might have restored her wit to my lady your mother—might, under the pressing little suspicion your wisdom has recognised, have persuaded her at last to announce, covertly, in the journals, that the difficulties of a certain contract would be removed by the appearance of a certain important party to it.†   (source)
  • Slipping along here covertly as Time, Bathsheba fancied she could hear footsteps entering the track at the opposite end.†   (source)
  • One day the soft airs of spring seemed to be stealing along the valley, and, in unison with an invigorating sun, attempting covertly to rouse the dormant powers of the vegetable world, while, on the next, the surly blasts from the north would sweep across the lake and erase every impression left by their gentle adversaries.†   (source)
  • He was too apt to reason as if "earning" this boon consisted above all of covertly aching for it and might be confined to that exercise.†   (source)
  • She thought Isabel a glorious creature, and had spoken of her covertly in some of her letters, though she never mentioned the fact to her friend, who would not have taken pleasure in it and was not a regular student of the Interviewer.†   (source)
  • She had thought it extraordinary that June should be of the party, and, improbable as it seemed, she had fancied that the woman had covertly followed the Iroquois in her own canoe, and had got in their advance, merely to give her the notice which had probably saved her life.†   (source)
  • Jo, shaking and chattering, slowly rises and stands, after the manner of his tribe in a difficulty, sideways against the hoarding, resting one of his high shoulders against it and covertly rubbing his right hand over his left and his left foot over his right.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She was of course accompanied on this journey by her niece, who now had plenty of leisure to measure and weigh and otherwise handle the windfall on which Madame Merle had covertly congratulated her.†   (source)
  • …taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable…†   (source)
  • But Merlin warned the king covertly that Guenever was not wholesome for him to take to wife, for he warned him that Launcelot should love her, and she him again; and so he turned his tale to the adventures of Sangreal.†   (source)
  • I glanced covertly at my hand.†   (source)
  • I had watched her covertly now and then, since the day when I had seen her on the landing outside Colum's study.†   (source)
  • I viewed them covertly from the parlor door, wondering just how accurate his mother's assessment had been.†   (source)
  • They emerged from the cabins and struggled up the sharing levee to the road—men in staid, hard brown orblack, with gold watch chains and now and then a stick; young men in cheap violentblues or stripes and swaggering hats; women a little stiffly sibilant,and children in garments bought second hand of white people, who looked at Ben with the covertness of nocturnal animals: "I bet you wont go up en tech him."†   (source)
  • Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (died 266 A.D.), suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree.†   (source)
  • And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta, Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city, Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children, But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.†   (source)
  • Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no dishonesty shall appear in me.†   (source)
  • But Merlin warned the king covertly that Guenever was not wholesome for him to take to wife, for he warned him that Launcelot should love her, and she him again; and so he turned his tale to the adventures of Sangreal.†   (source)
  • And although my eyes were somewhat confused, and my mind bewildered, those could not flee away so covertly but that I clearly distinguished Puccio Sciancato, and he it was who alone, of the three companions that had first come, was not changed; the other[3] was he whom thou, Gaville, weepest.†   (source)
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  • And she channeled her frustrations into the most productive activity imaginable: covert war.†   (source)
  • My progress must have prompted the Sixers to end their covert attempts to clear the Third Gate and make its location public by barricading it before I or anyone else could reach it.†   (source)
  • I wonder if those who hear this story will understand that my behaviour was not an act of insanity or a covert suicide attempt, but a simple necessity.†   (source)
  • A very old covert brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Not my choice of covert operations, but a necessary one in order to report back to my dad that night at dinner.†   (source)
  • Ron kept shooting Bill and Fleur covert looks, as though hoping to pick up tips.†   (source)
  • Until now, their approach had been covert; they'd traveled only over the desert's black squares of tar and volcanic rock to camouflage themselves from Redd's lookouts.†   (source)
  • He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent.†   (source)
  • Roger called from the coverts.†   (source)
  • The covert glances and quiet murmurs I usually evoke are nothing compared to the reaction brought on by the sight of my bizarre-looking prep team.†   (source)
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  • 'It's a covert kinda thing …'†   (source)
  • We are the silent professionals; we're covert operators and inviting the media to the airport is not in the program.†   (source)
  • She too had resented LuLing's speaking Chinese in front of others, knowing they couldn't understand her covert remarks.†   (source)
  • What we are doing here is more of a covert operation.†   (source)
  • Was she covert, like Malcolm?†   (source)
  • I was listening to the same genial, slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert.†   (source)
  • Bast made a frantic, covert gesture from where he stood near the door, but Kvothe was busy trying to catch the mercenary's eye.†   (source)
  • Wind screamed through the lapped coverts and primaries of the wings' leaves.†   (source)
  • These women had their undying, if covert, affection.†   (source)
  • Since our date I have spoken to him only in covert messages.†   (source)
  • And he was, indeed, beginning to attract a certain, covert attention; he did not look American, exactly: they were wondering how to place him.†   (source)
  • Black policemen have often been severely criticized during the struggle, but many have played covert roles that have been extremely valuable.†   (source)
  • It was a burial by night, a covert act performed in the darkness.†   (source)
  • As the five of them sat to dinner, Albriech and Baldor discussed the various people they had seen making covert preparations.†   (source)
  • Which, of course, only drove everyone's already hormone-drunk brains crazier, and turned some of my cabinmates into an elite breed of covert stalkers.†   (source)
  • Finn, who cared so little about enforcing most of the prison rules, had been waging a somewhat covert war against Officer Scott and Cormorant.†   (source)
  • Our procedures were covert enough that an enemy wouldn't know a signal was being given, and although we kept the procedures simple enough for our assets to remember, we spent hours reviewing the procedures with them.†   (source)
  • In addition to their covert plan to take over American territory, they also brought a "silent invasion" of diseases.†   (source)
  • Over the next two weeks, Gabby became an expert in making a covert entry and exit, at least when it came to her house.†   (source)
  • I was the cause of his joy and would be the cause of his destruction: a secret delivered to his enemies, a letter written in my own hand, a covert signal given by me, poison in his glass, a dagger in his ribs, a fall from a parapet.†   (source)
  • Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.†   (source)
  • This I would tell them, not under covert, but in words as clear as the sun in its meridian brightness.†   (source)
  • His name was Alexander Conklin, and he was a retired covert operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency.†   (source)
  • Though we were by no means close, I had always felt as a child that Grandmother was a covert ally.†   (source)
  • Isabelle cast a covert glance at her brother.†   (source)
  • Curious faces peered, unblinking, at the many wounds, pausing now and again to give shocked and covert glances at one another.†   (source)
  • CIA director Alan Dulles, an urbane and wealthy gentleman in his late sixties, epitomizes that aura of secrecy and covert intrigue.†   (source)
  • "You're like a little girl demanding answers to questions during a covert operation.†   (source)
  • Women are quicker than men to adopt "prestige forms" of language, but also quicker to adopt symbols of nonconformism, new or "stigmatized forms" that can acquire a kind of "covert prestige."†   (source)
  • There they lay for a while, too tired yet to eat; and peering out through the holes in the covert they watched for the slow growth of day.†   (source)
  • But the idea of spies—Daddy's, Mom's, or some unknown covert operatives—nags.†   (source)
  • He wrote The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA and teaches journalism at Case Western Reserve University.†   (source)
  • This was said with a covert glance at the tiny new baby, Minta or Minty, who lay close by Old Ries side, in a corner of the cabin.†   (source)
  • Covert negotiations.†   (source)
  • In fact he did what everyone else was doing — and still does in the Far North, with the covert permission of Governments: he spread strychnine so indiscriminately over an immense area that almost the entire population of foxes, wolverines and many lesser flesh-eaters was wiped out.†   (source)
  • So where the paddies represented ripeness and age and depth, the hedgerows expressed the land's secret qualities: cut up, twisting, covert, chopped and mangled, blind corners leading to dead ends, short horizons always changing.†   (source)
  • Bill Covert had one of 'm--it must be some forty years ago now.†   (source)
  • RICH (A covert jeer) Do you still think you can frighten him?†   (source)
  • "Covert mission behind enemy lines," Solomon said, laughing.†   (source)
  • One of the most covert and feared fraternities ever to walk the earth had called on him for service.†   (source)
  • The boar's note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters Ralph lay in a covert, wondering about his wounds.†   (source)
  • They surrounded the covert but the sow got away with the sting of another spear in her flank.†   (source)
  • '1 didn't say that,' shot back the man from covert operations.†   (source)
  • I'll ask him to make a CS-a covert search-and say that I'll call him back.†   (source)
  • They said it was the CIA moving heroin to finance some covert operation.†   (source)
  • I'll have Alex call her, confirming that he's in touch with all the heavy covert firepower in Paris.†   (source)
  • Even a hint of covert action would be disastrous.†   (source)
  • "Yes, you did," agreed the once-formidable Monk of Covert Services.†   (source)
  • Ninety miles from Florida, Fidel Castro is in a rage about ongoing American covert activity in Cuba.†   (source)
  • 'Certainly,' answered the diplomat of covert operations.†   (source)
  • … I'm vital to him-his killing me is vital-because I was the product of our covert operations.†   (source)
  • A man was killed in the Place Fontainas-a covert dealer in diamonds between Moscow and the West.†   (source)
  • "Glad to see you, Major," said the former Silent Monk of Covert Services, extending his hand.†   (source)
  • You are authorized covert personnel from the French SEDCE-†   (source)
  • They were locked away in the deepest archives of covert operations!†   (source)
  • "A covert broker," corrected the CIA director.†   (source)
  • Well, the American juggernaut of covert operations is going to be handed a bloody setback!†   (source)
  • Such men could make a pact with Carlos, if only for the covert power it gave them.†   (source)
  • 'No,' said the diplomat whose expertise lay in covert operations.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Jesus!' whispered Alex, mesmerized by the cold, precise elder statesman of covert operations.†   (source)
  • Why don't you get yourself processed instead?" said the man from covert operations coldly.†   (source)
  • We checked; they're in your covert division and still practising.†   (source)
  • 'We smelled a covert scenario from the beginning!' exploded Bourne.†   (source)
  • He threw Hermione many covert glances, plainly fearing an angry outburst, but for all the notice she took of him he might not have been there.†   (source)
  • With covert help from Iran, the insurgents had gathered arms and started launching mortars and rockets into Baghdad's Green Zone.†   (source)
  • Like we succeeded at a covert mission?'†   (source)
  • All the way to the arena, though, the Baron sat back among the armored cushions of his car, casting covert glances at the Count beside him, wondering why the Emperor's errand boy had thought it necessary to make that particular kind of joke in front of the Houses Minor.†   (source)
  • The troop resumed its climb up into a crack in the rocks, but there was a stillness of breath about the Fremen now that filled Paul with caution, and he noted covert glances toward Chani, the way she seemed to withdraw, pulling in upon herself.†   (source)
  • With covert glances, the Baron had studied the metal-walled room and its occupants — the noukkers, the pages, the guards, the troop of House Sardaukar drawn up around the walls, standing at ease there beneath the bloody and tattered captured battle flags that were the room's only decoration.†   (source)
  • If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.†   (source)
  • Many were shooting Jocelyn and Luke covert glances; a few were coming up to greet them, while others stood back looking curious.†   (source)
  • Covert gazes watched him as he moved toward the wall and leaned against it, looking intently toward the front of the room.†   (source)
  • Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom.†   (source)
  • The orchestra was in its covert mode, somewhere under the pit, playing faintly at first, a soft accent edged against the strong visuals.†   (source)
  • Advocates of a freer policy say it isn't working, because there is still covert harassment, and discharges for outed homosexuality continue.†   (source)
  • In Second Phase, Land Warfare, we learned covert infiltrations, sentry removal, handling agents/guides, gathering intelligence, snatching the enemy, performing searches, handling prisoners, shooting, blowing stuff up, etc. As a child, I learned attention to detail—making sure that not one single pecan remained on the ground when my dad came home saved my butt from getting whipped.†   (source)
  • They are also increasingly often being appropriated by some Hispanic and Asian Americans, and by middle-class white youths finding a covert prestige or generational protest in imitating black speech.†   (source)
  • The CIA has joined in the fight in Vietnam, conducting covert search-and-destroy missions in the Communist north.†   (source)
  • Kennedy has authorized a covert invasion of the island nation, sending fourteen hundred anti-Castro exiles to do a job that the U.S. military, by rule of international law, cannot do itself.†   (source)
  • Perversely perhaps, the current younger generation tends toward a "subversive prestige" or "covert prestige," as linguists put it, in adopting the speech of less privileged minorities; for instance, wiggers are privileged white teenagers who wish to sound and dress like blacks.†   (source)
  • If Bourne was plucked from Medusa, it has to follow that our covert operations were working with it-with them.†   (source)
  • The number of women who have access to the president is, of course, a security breach that could bring down the presidency, whether through blackmail or even, say, covert assassination via hypodermic injection.†   (source)
  • A brilliant man, Rusk attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and served as a chief of war plans as an army officer in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, organizing covert missions very much like the Bay of Pigs.†   (source)
  • You didn't want to believe London or Brussels, either, or a commander of the Sixth Fleet or the keeper of the covert keys in Langley.†   (source)
  • Who better to relay those moves to Cain but the one man on the Forty Committee who's given reports on every covert operations conference.†   (source)
  • On the page below the photograph showing the assassin and the American attorney together was the following: Subject with as yet unidentified contact during covert meeting at St. Basil's Cathedral.†   (source)
  • The Silent Monk of Covert Operations had been the sobriquet given him by his colleagues in the intelligence community.†   (source)
  • Over the years, with his facile mastery of languages and the expertise that came with survival, he had become the Agency's point man in clandestine operations, its primary scout and often the on-scene strategist for covert activities.†   (source)
  • The wires have been burning on all the back channels between Moscow and Washington, every covert phone on both sides damn near paralyzed thinking there could be a leak and theirs would be held responsible.†   (source)
  • He had the presence of mind to call the Pentagon and insist on speaking with covert transmissions, domestic.†   (source)
  • The stumbling block, and it was more of a hard rock, was the CIA's inability to spell out the covert operation in terms of one Jason Bourne, for only Alexander Conklin could release the name and he refused to do so, knowing that the Jackal's penetrations in Paris extended to just about everywhere but the kitchens of the Tour d'Argent.†   (source)
  • Brigadier General Irwin Arthur Crawford, current ranking officer in charge of Army Intelligence data banks, former commander, Saigon, attached to covert operations-still classified.†   (source)
  • A man could take only so much, and no one knew that better than Alexander Conklin, once among the finest covert field officers in the intelligence community.†   (source)
  • He's openly exposing his involvement, and given his background in covert to black operations, he wouldn't do that lightly.†   (source)
  • It was a sterile house, the headquarters of a covert operation so sensitive that even the President and the Prime Minister knew few of the details, only the objectives.†   (source)
  • The former officer was given a name and a brief sketch of defection, including a covert trip to the United States during which the defector in question on special assignment had eliminated those controlling the strategy.†   (source)
  • The directors of a covert operation that required a sterile house in foreign territory would stay within the protective confines of the house itself for two reasons.†   (source)
  • He's an analyst and one of the best, but he is not qualified to be a case officer, to say nothing of a station chief, and don't even consider his being the strategist behind a major covert operation.†   (source)
  • Marie St Jacques was a friend of mine — is a friend of mine — and her life became nothing in the eyes of self-important men who ran a covert operation that didn't give a holy damn about her and her husband.†   (source)
  • Two years of imposed castration until a man known as the Monk — a Rasputin of covert operations — sought him out because one David Webb had been selected for an extraordinary assignment and Conklin had known Webb for years.†   (source)
  • The waiting at the covert side-then they sound the tally-ho, do they not?†   (source)
  • He raised his crest, his shoulder coverts and the soft feathers of his thighs.†   (source)
  • There was no uproar in the covert or yelping from the lymers.†   (source)
  • It was nothing like badger-digging or covert-shooting or fox-hunting today.†   (source)
  • The two lymers plunged immediately into the covert which the hunters surrounded.†   (source)
  • I shall leave Bridey at the first covert, hack over to the nearest good pub, and spend the entire day quietly soaking in the bar parlor.†   (source)
  • Oh, she could stand the cuts, the slights, the covert smiles, anything the town might say, if she had to stand them—but not Melanie!†   (source)
  • It springs from the ecstasy I felt, in my covert, behind the folding doors of the Hyde Park Gate drawing room.†   (source)
  • And as the name of Duffy flashed across my mind I saw Duffy's face, large and lunar and sebaceous, nodding at me as at the covert and brotherly appreciation of a joke, and even as I opened my lips to speak the syllables of his name, he winked.†   (source)
  • He waited impatiently, mind beating the coverts … Nothing … Like a fabric the unknown speech flowed on riftless, opaque, until— "Bah!"†   (source)
  • And, even literally, Mrs. Renling was very strong, and as she didn't do any visible work it must have come, the development in her muscles, from her covert labor.†   (source)
  • All night they walked, and in the first dawn Kino searched the roadside for a covert to lie in during the day.†   (source)
  • Jack Burden stood in the main hall, which was cool and dim, with dully glittering floors, and in the silence of the house, recalled that period, some seventy years before, of the covert glances, the guarded whispers, the abrupt rustling of silk in the silence (the costume of the period certainly had not been designed to encourage casual vice), the sharp breath, the reckless sighs.†   (source)
  • Selfish Einhorn was, nevertheless; his nose in constant action smelled, and smelled out everything, sometimes austerely, or again without manners, covert, half an eye out for observers but not to be deterred if there were any, either.†   (source)
  • Sheltered from the downpour, children in the dry covert of hallways relayed the cry-a mocking gauntlet for those who hurried in the rain.†   (source)
  • She glanced quickly at her lover, a covert glance, then gave a new, reserved attention to her husband.†   (source)
  • The dozen feathers of his tail, with the double deck-feathers in the middle, grew out in the twinkling of an eye, and all the covert feathers of his back and breast and shoulders supped out of the skin to hide the roots of the more important plumes.†   (source)
  • Then the Wart was two yards further down the screen, and Colonel Cully was standing on one foot with a few meshes of string netting and the Wart's false primary, with its covert-feathers, vice-fisted in the other.†   (source)
  • He feared that his coverts would be disturbed by a lot of wild royal retainers—never know what these city chaps will be up to next—and that the King's huntsman, this fellow Twyti, would sneer at his humble hunting establishment, unsettle the hunt servants and perhaps even try to interfere with his own kennel management.†   (source)
  • He leaned from his covert and peered over the rim.†   (source)
  • It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.†   (source)
  • Gaunt shadows hovered always near; the great timber-wolves waited in covert for prey.†   (source)
  • One evening, as he stole out from a covert where he had camped, he saw the lights of a village.†   (source)
  • As we sat at the table, Otto Fuchs and I kept stealing covert glances at each other.†   (source)
  • Therefore she rode out of her covert and hailed him.†   (source)
  • The covert flight of the ladies was therefore also an expression of a certain modesty.†   (source)
  • Then Tom peeped out from behind his own covert.†   (source)
  • Hare stood calm and cold behind his green covert watching the three men stroll up the garden path.†   (source)
  • Bidding her dismount, he led the burros into a covert of stones and cedars, and tied them.†   (source)
  • Duane sat up at the moment the dog entered the little shaded covert.†   (source)
  • Joan's keen-wrought perception registered his covert, scarcely veiled implication.†   (source)
  • Joan watched them awhile from her covert.†   (source)
  • And a plaintive, sweet peeping came from the coverts.†   (source)
  • If he clung to his covert there was a chance, a merest chance, for his life.†   (source)
  • They were Comanches, gliding from covert to covert, and leaping from bowlder to bowlder.†   (source)
  • He hoped to become better acquainted with the count and invited him to draw his covert.†   (source)
  • "Take the covert at once, for my Girchik says the Ilagins are at Korniki with their hounds.†   (source)
  • While old One Eye, the wolf crouching in the covert, played his part, too, in the game, waiting for some strange freak of Chance, that might help him on the meat-trail which was his way of life.†   (source)
  • M. Verdurin, dreading the painful impression which the mention of these 'bores,' especially when flung at her in this tactless fashion, and in front of all the 'faithful,' was bound to make on his wife, cast a covert glance at her, instinct with anxious solicitude.†   (source)
  • In the days that followed, as Dawson grew closer and closer, Buck still continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it craftily, when Francois was not around, With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased.†   (source)
  • He rose from his covert, a lean, dark Indian, tall and powerful of build, with intense face and piercing eyes turned toward his quarry.†   (source)
  • The shining eyes of venturesome mice and rats peered out at the old man from cracks and coverts, but he went on with his work, rapt, absorbed, and noted none of these things.†   (source)
  • Helen heard a wild, full bay of the hound, ringing back, full of savage eagerness, and she believed Pedro had roused out the lion from some covert.†   (source)
  • They talked and bounded on, Jude cutting from a little covert a long walking-stick for Sue as tall as herself, with a great crook, which made her look like a shepherdess.†   (source)
  • The cowboys evinced their interest in covert glances while recoiling a lasso or while passing to and fro.†   (source)
  • She wanted to confess not only her hatred for the Aunt Bessies but her covert irritation toward those she best loved: her alienation from Kennicott, her disappointment in Guy Pollock, her uneasiness in the presence of Vida.†   (source)
  • This he rather took as meant to convey a covert sally on the new recruit's part, a sly slur at impressment in general, and that of himself in especial.†   (source)
  • And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep.†   (source)
  • With this notion, all unacknowledged, but nevertheless getting firmly settled in my head, I now began to imitate his covert looks; so that we sat at table like a cat and a mouse, each stealthily observing the other.†   (source)
  • The denser nocturnal vapours, attacked by the warm beams, were dividing and shrinking into isolated fleeces within hollows and coverts, where they waited till they should be dried away to nothing.†   (source)
  • He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.†   (source)
  • And while they established that the nightstand lamp had not burned out but had been turned off—it took only a very human flip of the switch to undo the covert maneuver and make it burn again—Hans Castorp quietly made a surprising discovery of his own, which might be seen as evidence that the childish dark powers manifesting themselves here had paid him particular attention.†   (source)
  • Madeline divined the covert meaning, and a slight chill passed over her, as if a cold wind had blown in from the hills.†   (source)
  • Rabbits, hares, snakes, rats, mice, retreated inwards as into a fastness, unaware of the ephemeral nature of their refuge, and of the doom that awaited them later in the day when, their covert shrinking to a more and more horrible narrowness, they were huddled together, friends and foes, till the last few yards of upright wheat fell also under the teeth of the unerring reaper, and they were every one put to death by the sticks and stones of the harvesters.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, she stood rooted to her covert behind the window, living that terrible walk with him to the uttermost thought of home, sister, mother, sweetheart, wife, life itself—every thought that could come to a man stalking to meet his executioners.†   (source)
  • In the evenings when Snap came in to his wooing and drew Mescal into a corner, Hare watched with covert glance and smouldering jealousy.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he heard shouts, then the cracking of rifles, and bullets began to zip and swish through the leafy covert.†   (source)
  • Peeping out from his covert he saw a man in his shirt-sleeves leading the horses—a slender, clean-faced, dark-haired man—Dene!†   (source)
  • Joan peered from her covert in the evenings, and watched for Jim, and grew weary of the loud talk and laughter, the gambling and smoking and drinking.†   (source)
  • Venters did not wish to lose the meat, and he never allowed crippled game to escape, to die lingeringly in some covert.†   (source)
  • Starwell and his men, seeing the Indians routed, left their covert and likewise plunged down, firing and yelling as never before.†   (source)
  • There was the night ride of Tull's, which, viewed in the light of subsequent events, had a look of his covert machinations; Oldring and his Masked Rider and his rustlers riding muffled horses; the report that Tull had ridden out that morning with his man Jerry on the trail to Glaze, the strange disappearance of Jane Withersteen's riders, the unusually determined attempt to kill the one Gentile still in her employ, an intention frustrated, no doubt, only by Judkin's magnificent riding…†   (source)
  • Any unwounded creature, strong and resourceful, was safe when he had glided under the low, rustling green roof of this wild covert.†   (source)
  • Back there in her covert Joan listened and watched, mindful of the great need of controlling her emotions.†   (source)
  • He was a long while in coming to it, and then there was no thicket or clump of mesquite near the waterhole that would afford him covert.†   (source)
  • Duane sunk deeper into the shadow of his covert, and, stiffening his muscles for a protected spell of rigidity, prepared to listen with all acuteness and intensity.†   (source)
  • Covert observation had become a habit with her; an instinct, of which it is not an exaggeration to say that it was allied to that of self-defence, had made it habitual.†   (source)
  • A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason.†   (source)
  • From beneath this mask were to be seen part of a fine, manly face, and particularly a pair of expressive large blue eyes, that promised extraordinary intellect, covert humor, and great benevolence.†   (source)
  • I understood this covert fling at the white gentleman who was my friend; but I merely replied, "I went to visit my friends, and any company they keep is good enough for me."†   (source)
  • She took her husband's hand, and it was still warm, while she thought a covert smile was struggling on his lip.†   (source)
  • The species, I think, is indicated by the white belly and dull red colour of the wing coverts which I observed in these specimens, and I believe them to be bustards, especially as I noticed in the largest the fine moustache-like feathers over the beak, peculiar to the Great Bustard.†   (source)
  • After stooping to put the bottle on the ground, he looked up at the windows, and looked about; though with a covert and impatient air, as if he was anxious to be gone.†   (source)
  • As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable.†   (source)
  • As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert.†   (source)
  • The hind led her fawn from the covert of high fern to the more open walks of the greenwood, and no huntsman was there to watch or intercept the stately hart, as he paced at the head of the antler'd herd.†   (source)
  • He seemed to know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned certain information in a certain district about a family which had disappeared.†   (source)
  • It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate Andre was captured, and under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised him.†   (source)
  • I bear you no ill-will, and I am only too glad that you should have employment of my dear husband; but in common fairness treat me as his wife, and do not try to make me wretched by covert sneers.†   (source)
  • The maiden felt the tacit reproach conveyed in this covert question, and for a moment she remained in an embarrassed silence.†   (source)
  • In vain Amy telegraphed the word 'talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot.†   (source)
  • He did not feel impatient, for the lessons he had heard taught him the virtue of patience, and, most of all, inculcated the necessity of wariness in conducting any covert assault on the Indians.†   (source)
  • Jane Fairfax's perception seemed to accompany his; her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.†   (source)
  • Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no…†   (source)
  • It was no doubt the anomalous state of affairs existing between us, which turned all my attacks upon him, (and they were many, either open or covert) into the channel of banter or practical joke (giving pain while assuming the aspect of mere fun) rather than into a more serious and determined hostility.†   (source)
  • And thither the guide conducted them, careless of whistling partridges and lesser birds of brighter hues roused whirring from the reedy coverts.†   (source)
  • Had he treated you as an especial favourite, you would have found enemies, declared or covert, all around you; as it is, the greater number would offer you sympathy if they dared.†   (source)
  • He was a homely, freckled, sandy-haired young fellow, with an intelligent blue eye that had frankness and comradeship in it and a covert twinkle of a pleasant sort.†   (source)
  • But I declined these offers; being already aware that there were plenty of such covert practitioners in existence, and considering the Commons quite bad enough, without my doing anything to make it worse.†   (source)
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  • He stopped before a covert.   (source)
    covert = a hidden or sheltered place; or done in a secret or hidden way
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