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  • noun Plural form of cove.

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Examples

  • While there are many arrogant evolutionary biologists who would look down their noses at the whole lot as ignorant rubes, there's actually a vast store of knowledge collected into these mountain coves and valleys.

    Books Most Important to You 2006

  • In spring and fall, concentrate in coves and tributaries, as bass are moving shallow to spawn or feed on migrating shad.

    Boathouse Basics for Bass 1999

  • They're situated in coves, protected from the Pacific Ocean by steep, rocky, and jungly hillsides.

    Off the beaten path: beaches on Mexico"s Pacific Coast 1997

  • They're situated in coves, protected from the Pacific Ocean by steep, rocky, and jungly hillsides.

    Off the beaten path: beaches on Mexico"s Pacific Coast 1997

  • They're situated in coves, protected from the Pacific Ocean by steep, rocky, and jungly hillsides.

    Off the beaten path: beaches on Mexico"s Pacific Coast 1997

  • Where zones of soft or closely jointed rock outcrop along a shore, or where minor water courses conic down to the sea and aid in erosion, the shore is worn back in curved reentrants called coves; while the more resistant rocks on either hand are left projecting as headlands (Fig. 139).

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

  • In one of their coves was the _Triton's_ native village, and the home of the

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • The shore along the north side of the bay is indented by numerous little bays called coves; the water is deep and clear, so that they are much frequented by bathers.

    A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Such pockets, or "coves," are by no means unusual in the inaccessible depths of the great box cañons of the Sierras.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • To her own people, these steep hillsides and "coves" and valleys were

    The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

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