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1697. Walsh, Dryden’s Virgil, Life **2. In other Writers there is often well cover’d Ignorance; in Virgil, conceal’d Learning.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, an. 1776 (1904), II. 46. My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other.
1853. Soyer, Pantropheon, 121. They are then cooked without water, in a well-covered vessel.
a. 1865. Mrs. Gaskell, Wives & Dau., xxxiii. Till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
1884. Nonconf. & Indep., 2 May, 445/3. Thrusting his elbow into the well-covered ribs of Mr. W. H. Smith.
