What is "covent"

Usage examples of "covent".

I visited the theatres of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, but I could not extract much enjoyment out of the perfomances as I did not know a word of English.

In the evening I took them to Covent Garden, where the castrato Tenducci surprised me by introducing me to his wife, of whom he had two children.

Lusty of Covent Garden, hilsa fish in tamarind sauce, chicken served with many vegetable dishes and a platter of rice, and a towering sugary model of the Taj Mahal accompanied by a mango water ice.

Covent Garden or Holborn school for thieves, and that likening him to a sneaksman was not so very off the mark.

Covent Garden Opera, or on a barrel organ, I always think of Tombo, with his woolly hair, his beady eyes, and glistening teeth.

Covent Garden was bustling with activity, despite the cold, despite the icy wind.

Hazards had purchased new shawls ready-made from the modiste and added them to their gowns for the trip to Covent Garden.

Shabby, scampish, cozy and not quite respectable, Covent Garden was like a bit of paradise, I felt, and I was proud to be a part of it.

East towards Covent Garden, where the street entertainment was a little artier, and the average burger was anything but cheap.

No sign of Miss Woodworth or Miss Brooks had been seen anywhere in the city, according to the chaps who roamed the docks and Covent Garden area.

With one hand restraining the flowing folds of her fine silk nightclothes, she lurched over the closestool in her Covent Garden flat and prayed, in fluent and fervid Italian, for death to take her.

Covent Garden market, at midnight might be found the bucks, bloods, demireps, and choice spirits of London, associated with the most elegant and fascinating Cyprians, congregated with every species of human kind that intemperance, idleness, necessity, or curiosity could assemble together.

November Vince met with Esther Goldstone at her office in Covent Garden, and described what had happened in the Holborn chambers.

He reassured himself from time to time by looking at the splendid diamond in his pocket, like a talisman, and he spent the afternoon in the Covent Garden hummums, his sparse frame sweating in the hottest room until it could sweat no more.

She stood up, swathed in her towel, Venus arising from the depths, and bowed with regal graciousness towards the audience, Madame Melba taking her final farewell of Covent Garden.