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Definition of Heaved
1. heave [v] - See also: heave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaved
Literary usage of Heaved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"THEY bore him barefaced on his bier, Yet warrior souls can feel, When Death in
a heart, that knew not fear, In his shining shirt of steel ; They heaved no ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... slung him on hi« shoulders, parried him to the top of a neighbouring cliff,
and heaved him into the sea. Ever since then the cliff hoe been called Lam- ..."
3. Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Jun., of Massachusetts by Josiah Quincy (1825)
"... to be the widow's stay, And orphan's refuge ; — so the patriot sigh heaved in
that dying bosom, when the tear Of husband and of father was exhaled. ..."
4. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque by William Combe (1838)
"Attracted his admiring eye: Who, as he enter'd, heaved a sigh. Now Syntax, as we
all must know, Ne'er heard a sigh or tale of woe, But instant wish'd to ..."
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