He is covering sergeant of my company, and the smartest Coverer we have, too.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
Lefty watched Bemis, the long-legged ground Coverer, working away toward the plate, and drove him back.
"Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager"
Burt L. Standish
The trouble is that the Coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"
Samuel Butler