Max Maben hovered over the pool center in slow reversements and wing slips.
But while he still hovered near with engine muffled to its softest, his ear seemed to catch a scream--a woman's scream from within the drifting house.
He drifted down until he hovered at only a hundred feet of altitude.
Mr. Skee also hovered about her to a considerable extent, but most of his devotion was bestowed upon damsels of extreme youth.
It was rather rough traveling, especially for the narrow Wireless; and acting upon Jack's suggestion George hovered close to the others, so as to have help in case of trouble, and be partly sheltered from the rollers by keeping in their lee.
While the dove of peacehovered over the camp, it would be folly to stir these fellows up again.
Shamus was terribly agitated, and the shades of dyspepsia hovered over his cooking; but, although the coffee was muddy and the meat burned, we were in no mood to take exceptions.
There, the wild Arab hordes hovered over the deserts; here, America's savage tribes do the same over the plains.
The animals hovered near the fire for warmth, looking to the human beings who guided them for protection.
They hovered a while at the north side of the village, and then old Xingudan opened fire with the repeating rifle.
The ancestral antiquity of San Stefano hovered above them in this room like a palpable sense of awe, blended with a melancholy of black silence and black pride.
A beautiful white dove hovered in the air over the head of Proserpine and her attendant, and then dropping an olive branch into the lap of the Queen, flapped its wings and whirled away.
A chariot drawn by dragons hovered over that superb palace whose sparkling steps of lapislazuli were once pressed by the daring foot of Ixion.
A bitter smile hoveredaround her lips as she did so, but it vanished as swiftly as it had come; for when she again fixed her eyes upon the monarch, she would gladly have joined in the mighty hymn.
Owing to the close growth of trees, but very little sun filtered to the ground below, and a twilight gloom hoveredover the narrow way.
She would not even then return from her excursion, but hovered about in sight of the door, with a view of making further observations.
At others, beneath some great flower-draped tree, where the sun-birds hovered and darted.
Immediately, as if it were their signal, all the crows arose from the town, hovered around in batches for a moment, chattering, and flew away up the hill to roost in the trees round the hospital till sunrise.
They hovered over the town seeking a flat place, finally swooping down on to the marshy plain on which the "Stobarts" were encamped.
Sea-birds in great numbers hovered around its entrance, finding it, no doubt, an ideal nesting-place.
We did not go far afield, but hovered within ten or fifteen miles of the various entrances, so as not to be blown off the land in case of sudden bad weather.
Myriads of birds hovered about, busy fishing from the countless schools that rippled the placid sea.
It was clear that on the lips of Miss Browne there hovered some important announcement, which might well be vital to the fortunes of Mr. Tubbs.
Countless birds and sea fowl hovered before the face of the cliffs and above the placid sea.
Then they were prone to resort to the grog ships, which hovered around them, and they too often drank a great deal more rum than was good for them.
As I belong in a manner to the house I took down Miss Harford, and hovered about her for five minutes.
Alice hovered round him, like one of the zephyrs which fanned their evening festivity; and at her desire he took her mother's lute, and played and sung to it several Spanish ditties.
In the midst of this space hovered a shining sphere, upon which, gigantic and sublimely haughty, stood a man who played the violin.
She still hovered about the great house each morning as a frightened bird flutters around its nest, but with little chance of satisfaction, for, except the housekeeper's room, all the establishment seemed closed to her.
Humble as Jessup's little dwelling was, there hovered about it a spirit of beauty which would have made even an uncouth object beautiful to an imaginative person.
Their progress was slow and painful, and they were at all times subjected to irritating attacks from the clouds of Aztecs who hovered about their line of march.
Always the enemy hovered in small parties on their flanks, or followed closely in the rear, eager to pounce upon stragglers in search of food, or those who had fallen from exhaustion.
Backward, step by step, were the Tlascalans pressed, until half of them had been forced to take the fatal plunge, and the litter containing the chiefest treasure of the Spanish army, hoveredon the very brink of the black chasm.
Many are the miracles which he wrought and which his canonized bones have since effected: angels (it is said), hovered round him in his departing hour, and bore him on their wings to heaven.
The form of Bruno was almost lost in the splendour of the stars which hovered over him.
A voice rose out of his soul, but it was no longer his: a pulsing, soft white glow hovered in the air above him.
The globes hovered and sometimes blinded him with light, but either could not or would not attack the ships.
Rising higher, he hovered briefly above his baffled foe, then swept down onto its back, and in three quick motions of jaws and foreclaw, tore off its head and left it to die.
The desert Arabs hovered like vultures in the distance waiting for nightfall to cover them in their looting.
Our camp there was anything but cheerful, for swarms of starving townsfolk hovered on the outskirts ready to pounce on any refuse that the men threw away.
Mad with love the brilliant hawk-moth, afraid of the flame yet determined to win the fire for the princess, hovered round and round the candle flame, coming nearer and nearer each time.
Zephoranim paused irresolute, his scowling brows bent on his erstwhile favorite Minstrel with an expression that hovered curiously between bitterest enmity and reluctant reverence.
What spectral shadow of dread hovered above this brilliant scene of high feasting and voluptuous revelry?
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