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Usage examples of "coverley".
The meal was served in enormous helpings on damask tablecloths by the skilled Italian waiters Major - de Coverley had kidnaped from the mainland and given to Milo.
Major - de Coverley had returned from Rome with an injured cornea after renting two apartments there for the officers and enlisted men to use on their rest leaves.
Major - de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes.
He peeked out at Major - de Coverley for hours and marveled that someone so august had nothing more important to do.
He knew that Major - de Coverley was his executive officer, but he did not know what that meant, and he could not decide whether in Major - de Coverley he was blessed with a lenient superior or cursed with a delinquent subordinate.
Few people ever dared approach Major - de Coverley about anything and the only officer foolish enough to pitch one of his horseshoes was stricken the very next day with the worst case of Pianosan crud that Gus or Wes or even Doc Daneeka had ever seen or even heard about.
Everyone was positive the disease had been inflicted upon the poor officer in retribution by Major - de Coverley, although no one was sure how.
Black had boundless faith in the wisdom, power and justice of Major - de Coverley, even though he had never spoken to him before and still found himself without the courage to do so.
He deputized Milo to speak to Major - de Coverley for him and stormed about impatiently as he waited for the tall executive officer to return.
Major - de Coverley stepped into the mess hall with his fierce and austere dignity the day he returned and found his way blocked by a wall of officers waiting in line to sign loyalty oaths.
The hubbub began to subside slowly as Major - de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre.
Major - de Coverley swept it away with mighty displeasure the moment he recognized what it was, his good eye flaring up blindingly with fiery disdain and his enormous old corrugated face darkening in mountainous wrath.
Major - de Coverley turned from the counter with his tray full and came to a stop.
Germans, but it did fool Major - de Coverley, who packed his musette bag, commandeered an airplane and, under the impression that Florence too had been captured by the Allies, had himself flown to that city to rent two apartments for the officers and the enlisted men in the squadron to use on rest leaves.
Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.