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Definition of Hovers
1. hover [v] - See also: hover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hovers
Literary usage of Hovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"If the three lines which describe the flame of a lamp had been omitted, and only
the conclusion retained,— " Thou must not go : My soul still hovers oa Lhee ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"IN WHICH THE HISTORY STILL hovers ABOUT FLEET STREET. APTAIN SHANDON, urged on
by his ... hovers ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... hovers over a flower while extracting the honey closely resembles that already
described as characteristic of the moths among the Lepidoptera. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"CHAPTER XXXIII IN WHICH THE HISTORY STILL hovers ABOUT FLEET STREET CAPTAIN
SHANDON, urged on by hie wife, who seldom meddled in business matters, ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"... Under the Meteor Flag1 (1884); 'The Pirate Island' 11884); 'The Congo
hovers' (1885), a story of the Slave Squadron; 'The Missing Merchantman' (1888); ..."
6. History of Alaska: 1730-1885 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos (1886)
"HEART-SICK, CHIRIKOF hovers ABOUT THE PLACE—AND is FINALLY DRIVEN AWAY BY THE
WIND—HE DISCOVERS UNALASKA, ..."
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