covertcy

Then you will begin your true lessons in the arts of covertcy.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Then you will begin your true lessons in the arts of covertcy.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Then you will begin your true lessons in the arts of covertcy.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Not even my lord Anafiel Delaunay, who took me into his household at the age of ten, who trained me in the arts of covertcy and whose name I bear to this day, had known me so long.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

And he thought ... you are skilled in the arts of covertcy.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

With no other skills at my disposal, I had begun teaching him the arts of covertcy such as my lord Delaunay had taught me when I was a child: how to observe, how to read expression, tone and posture, how to listen for the unspoken; how to make oneself unobtrusive, and when to watch for what people will reveal when they think themselves un­noticed, and the nine tell-tales of a lie.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

And I have studied the arts of covertcy for nearly as long, and knew to read the shadings of tone, the unspoken language of the body.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

You have a gift for such matters, as require the arts of covertcy.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

I wondered if she would have marveled that a child of their loins should become an adept in the arts of covertcy.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

B. that the present plaintiff, while covertcy 1734. fol.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735] 1790