Hovering

Examples

• He covered with his hand the upper part of his face, but did not conceal his mouth, where I saw hovering an expression I liked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And all the while they two were hovering, hesitating round the flame of some invisible declaration. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Of Dora's being ready, and of Miss Lavinia's hovering about her, loth to lose the pretty toy that has given her so much pleasant occupation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Spies are hovering about in every direction. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• During his brief command he had the enemy hovering around near the city, in vastly superior numbers to his own. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But although the escaped vapor mingles with the atmosphere, hovering near the earth's surface, or rising far above the level of the mountains, it does not remain there permanently. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Since then she has been, as I began by saying, hovering, hovering, sir--Mr. Snagsby repeats the word with pathetic emphasis--in the court. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Jessie quickly read, in the sparkle of her hearer's eye and the laughter hovering round her lips, that at last she had hit on a topic that pleased. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For he has been hovering about you all night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Gossip had passed me bycuriosity had looked me over; both subtle influences, hovering always round, had never become centred upon me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Such an one was near, hovering round this house. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All day Tarzan followed Kulonga, hovering above him in the trees like some malign spirit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It is a beautiful belief, That ever round our head Are hovering, on angel wings, The spirits of the dead. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A nurse in white entered, half hovering in the doorway like a shadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When they were alone in the darkness, she felt the strange, licentiousness of him hovering upon her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At this time a large body of the enemy was hovering to the west of us, along the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It stood for one of the many hated possibilities hovering on the edge of life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Nevertheless, some precautionary instinct warned Lily to withdraw beyond ear-shot of the hovering parlour-maid. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There was a hovering triumph in Loerke, since Gudrun had denied her marriage with Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I went back, not quite accustomed yet to the change, but all the better for that hovering about my darling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She stood up, and as he sat with bent head, his chin propped on his hands, he felt her warmly and fragrantly hovering over him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Typist: Patricia