couvert

How to use couvert in a sentence

• Le 134 defunct estoit couch sur vn ais appuy de quatre fourches, & fut couvert de peaux.

  The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614 | Various

• La nuit tait trs-noire et il faisait un froid pre qui avait couvert de 'bordages' les rives du fleuve.

  History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 | Consul Willshire Butterfield

• Snow, called le couvert du bon Dieu by Beaulieu, 62;prevents the Indians from finding their way, 122.

  The Barren Ground of Northern Canada | Warburton Mayer Pike

• Dinner proceeded without le plat couvert, as our grandsires called it.

  Cousin Pons | Honore de Balzac

• It was with the joy of great relief that he heard Ellis say to his underling, "Numero cinq, sur la terrace, un couvert."

  The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories | Richard Harding Davis