Presently the train hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
We "hove" our deep-sea-line by night, and the operation was very interesting, at least to me. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
At 4 p.m. the anchor was hove short for our voyage to. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
A torpedo-boat destroyer hove within signalling distance. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
When within speaking-distance, the stranger hove to and hailed. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
Captain Rogers was not the man to lay hove to in any fair breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
I've been waiting here 'most an hour and not a soul has hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
On several occasions the raiders hove in sight after the inmates of the. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
At long last, however, the main gate of the laboratories hove into view. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
We arrived at this conclusion, as the port of our destination hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
She was sitting thinking of the inscrutable future when a canoe hove into sight. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
We kept off, and when within easy range of the carronades "hove to" to windward. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
D. (O. S.) fell overboard; hove to; lowered a boat; wore ship, and picked him up. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
After a fruitless attempt to proceed further on my voyage of discovery, I hove about. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
II., richly laden with goods from Genoa, and bound for Cività Vecchia, hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
But this silent man hove alongside while our rich friend was bound home in a buckboard. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
In the course of a week, the Commander on the African station, himself, hove to off the. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
At the moment of shortening sail, our lame duck, the "Mosquito," hove in sight astern, in. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
At one time a ship was lost at sea for many days, when it hove in sight of a friendly vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
The time passed, and though a good lookout was kept, not one of the enemy's fleet hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
As he spoke, the wind-blown figure of the professor hove into view from the small, sheltered cabin. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
I was heartily tired of my horse cruise, and was glad when I hove to at the “Hoop and Griffin.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
When they all expected to perish with the vessel, a Danish brig hove in sight, and came to the rescue. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The mistake was, of course, speedily discovered; the squadron hove around and headed north for Yamada. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
No ardently-desired vessel hove in sight, nothing met our longing gaze as we daily scanned the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
At 9 a.m. the long-expected "Audacious" hove in sight, flying the flag of Admiral Hillyar at the main. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
There must be a town somewhere in the vicinity, though, for in the afternoon the military commandant hove in sight. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
"Can't come it no how; cos why, I'm hove to, with the anchor hard and fast, ony they can't see that we're anchored.". From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"Tracadie," and again the Norman kirtle and petticoat of the pastoral, black-eyed Evangelines hove in sight, and passed like a day-dream. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
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