Then, after those natives who could not escape from the island had all perished in the manner described, William Guy, Patterson, Trinkle, Covin, Forbes, and Sexton ventured to come out of the labyrinth, where they were on the verge of death by starvation.
"An Antarctic Mystery"
Jules Verne
And since the release was so made, the said Thomas Profyt, through the scheming and false Covin of the said John Solas, has sold all the lands and tenements aforesaid to the same John Solas for ever.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
According to More, these capitalists plucked down houses and even towns, leaving nothing but the church for a sheep-house, so that "by Covin and fraud, or by violent oppression, ...
"The Emancipation of Massachusetts"
Brooks Adams