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However, a double hedge row that always held at least one covy of quail 50 years ago was still standing and it still had a covy of quail in it!
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A covy of trees near a factory houses so many crows you can hear them from this park, quite a ways off.
Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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A covy of trees near a factory houses so many crows you can hear them from this park, quite a ways off.
parc baldwin Lemon Hound 2008
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So that it's lucky for that 'ere covy that the old boy slipt when he did.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Knights, if I had known you would have let this covy of
The Merry Devil 1590
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«44 INTERESTING MEMOIRS. good fenfe and fweetnefs of temper da more than compcnfate for the ablcnce of thofc fhtntng talents — which dazzle, but do not warm, — which awaken covy, but rarely conciliate affedion.
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dewlady357: I don't know about you, covy..but I COULDN'T care less.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Alex Suskind 2012
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"A learned Judge once, examining a queer covy, a flash customer, or a rum fellow, asked him his reason for suspecting the prisoner at the bar of stealing a watch, (which among the lads is scientifically termed nimming a toiler, or ~207~~nabbing a clicker,) replied as follows: -- 'Why, your honour, only because you see as how I was up to him.'
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