covertures

And four elephants and four great destriers, all white and covered with rich covertures, leading the chariot.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And they have plates and helms made of quyrboylle, and their horses covertures of the same.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Her very weakness and lassitude were a source of happiness; for, after long months of turmoil and racket, it was pleasant to lie in the covertures, and suffer her thoughts to rise out of unconsciousness or sink back into it without an effort.

A Mummer's Wife 1892

There is nothing, he tells us in _Fifine_, which cannot reflect it; even moral putridity becomes phosphorescent, "and sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures."

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures, --

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

Upon her hufband, faw their fhame that fought Vain covertures-j but when he faw defcend The Son of God to. judge them, tcrrify'd He fledy not hoping to efcape, but fhun The prefent, fearing guilty what his wrath 340

The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

'wonderfull and marvelous greate quantitie of corne and graine'; and destroying the 'covertures of thatched housery, bernes, rekes, stakkes, and other such like'; so that all persons were to do their best to kill them, 'on pain of a grevous amerciament'.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893