The size and shape of this colossal chamber, the Coving of the roof, with beams like perches for the feathered race, stretching across it, and, above all, the watery gleams that glanced through the casements, possessed my fancy with ideas of Noah's ark, and almost persuaded me I beheld that extraordinary vessel.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford
And the good folk made some mistake last week, going up the country, and left a keg of old Holland cordial in the Coving of the wood-rick, having borrowed our Smiler, without asking leave.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
Although it was now well on towards dark, and the sun was down an hour or so, I could see the robbers' road before me, in a trough of the winding hills, where the brook ploughed down from the higher barrows, and the Coving banks were roofed with furze.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore