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Definition of Hovered
1. hover [v] - See also: hover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hovered
Literary usage of Hovered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1849)
"Which, if they are deprived of, the loss is dismal indeed, nation, nnd hovered
over it with an eye for good. and all the riches a man can possibly acquire, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... incessantly hovered round the army ; every straggler was intercepted, every
detachment was attacked, and the valiant Hormisdas escaped with some ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... illustrated work upon tillage and weaving was published in China in ma, ici
contains an engraving of a loom constructed to weave hovered- silk brocades ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... returned to the gods; but the Umbra hovered about the body as unwilling to
quit it. Man In Black (The). Supposed to be Goldsmith'« father. ..."