Use covin in a sentence - Example Sentences for covin
And you shall be ready, at the warning of the Constables and Bedels, to make the watches and (to bear) the other charges for the safeguard of the peace, and all the points in this wardmote shown, according to your power you shall well and lawfully keep-and if you know any evil covin within the ward or the city, you shall withstand the same, or to your alderman make it known.
Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.
The latter remedy is at the root of President Taft's new corporation tax, but Congress has not yet applied the former, although it was very seriously advocated that there should be statutes which should indirectly forfeit the profits of the trust that had secured a monopoly, that is an engrossing trust-covin or alliance, as our ancestors would have called it-"a gentleman's agreement"-and that it should be done by a reduction of the tariff on the articles in which that trust dealt, this reduction to be ordered by the president.
So, in the Statute of Dogger (this ancient word meaning the ships that carry fish for salting to Blakeney, Cromer, and other ports in the east of England), the price of dogger fish is settled at the beginning of the day and must be sold at such price "openly, and not by covin, or privily," nor can fish be bought for resale, but must be sold within the bounds of the market.
" Department stores are anticipated by a clause complaining that the merchants called grocers do engross all manner of merchandise "by Covin and Ordinance made betwixt them, called the Fraternity and Gild of Merchants," and anticipates the prejudice against the modern department store by ordaining that merchants shall deal in only one sort of merchandise, and furthermore handicraftsmen are allowed to "use only one Mystery," that is, trade-which also anticipates a principle dear to modern trades-unions.
A water-drinker, provided he is a profess'd one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or show of logic in it, 'That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny's--' --The proposition does not strike one; on the contrary, it seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects-- But it shews the weakness and imbecility of human reason. --'And in perfect good health with it?' --The most perfect,--Madam, that friendship herself could wish me-- 'And drink nothing!--nothing but water?' --Impetuous fluid! the moment thou pressest against the flood-gates of the brain--see how they give way--!
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