covert's

The Rajah, a statue of a man, sat on a tall grey at the covert's edge, directly below me; and from time to time I watched him through my field-glass.

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

They might be seen for half the day moving about the roads as leisurely, or standing as quietly at the covert's side as might the seniors of the fields.

Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848

Another hour's beating, in which we still kept picking up, from time to time, some scattering birds, brought us to the spring head, where we found Tim with luncheon ready, and our fat friend reposing at his side, with two more grouse, and a rabbit which he had bagged along the covert's edge.

Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832

To which it was replied, that the fame argument might be made ufe of againft a feme covert's anfwering any bill, when mule a co-defendant witli her hufband, which is contrary to all rules of pradtice; and therefore this objeftion ought not to prevail.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793