1859, George_Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 26:That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side . . . it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.
1921, John_Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11:"She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
2003, Thomas Stuttaford, "Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay," Times Online (UK), 20 Mar. (retrieved 24 June 2008):The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
1865, Elizabeth_Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, ch. 33:He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
1866, Anthony_Trollope, The Belton Estate, ch. 31:How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?
