Because, once established there, he had sought, as a homing pigeon its COTES, to find Ada.
"Command"
William McFee
But he also knew that he could handle an open boat as few even on the COTES-du-Nord knew how.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
His great elegance of manner, as well as of music, brought him into the most aristocratic dove-COTES, or salons, as they called them, and it is small wonder that he found himself unable to avoid accepting and buttonholing for a while some of the countless hearts that were flung like roses at his feet.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1"
Rupert Hughes