Truth need not always be embodied; enough if it hovers around like a spiritual essence, which gives one peace, and fills the atmosphere with a solemn sweetness like harmonious music of bells.
It is the light that hovers above the judgment-seat.
It had I don't know how many wings, as big as the sails of a windmill, and spread out in a ring like them; and with them it hovered over the steam which rushed up, as a ball hovers over the top of a fountain.
Like a beauteous maiden flower, When the young beloved three paces Hoversfrom the bridal bower.
While under thy bower the fern hangs burnt And no cloud hovers above!
Turning westwards along the coast, Lundy is often to be seen like a faint blue cloud on the horizon, especially when a softening haze hovers over the land--but on a clear day it is very distinct.
Between Honiton and Sidmouth is an inn called The Hunter's Lodge (more recently The Hare and Hounds), and opposite the house is a block of stone, over which hovers a gruesome mystery.
The same sort of feeling hovers about Tavy Cleave, and a great sense of the mystery that here more, there less, broods over the moor.
Although upon all parts of the South Hams there hovers a spell that is inexplicable, perhaps it is felt more in Dartmouth than in any other place one can think of.
Clear carols flutter through the trees; The new year hovers like a dove: I cast my sighs on every breeze; Spring is no spring, forlorn of love.
The new year hovers like a dove Above the breast of the green earth: Spring is no spring, forlorn of love; Alike to me are death and birth.
Therein is he like the eagle, who hovers with free gaze over whole countries, and to whom it is of no consequence whether the hare on which he pounces is running in Prussia or in Saxony.
They would have been “modern” in any age, and perhaps for that very reason a certain classic repose hovers over their pages.
They preserve their direct, unrestrained character; but above them hovers the joyfulness of the southern sky, and they are inspired with an exuberant delight in the goal which he has attained.
A bird of prey hovers near, ready to descend upon the carcase.
Her departed spirit still hovers over his affections, overshadows his path, and draws him by unseen cords to herself in heaven.
Note also that he hovers around the Iliad, before and after it, yet never into it, here and elsewhere in the Odyssey; specially in the Third Book have we observed the same fact.
This soul can still speak, and be seen; it hovers half way between the two worlds, having still a material phase of the body which has not yet been burnt.
In simple innocence there hovers in her mind the thought of Family, yet she shows a shy reserve even before her father.
The two points between which the Return hovers are also given: the capture of Troy and the Greek world.
Yet over this human movement hovers always the divine, Pallas is the active supernal power which brings these events to pass, introducing both the parts mentioned.
Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death.
Not a breath of the time that has been hovers In the air now soft with a summer to be.
Here is no hint of the tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs and the glamour that hovers about a throne.
Here is no hint of the tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamour that hovers about a throne.
Happy happy time, when the white starhovers Low over dim fields fresh with bloomy dew, Near the face of dawn, that draws athwart the darkness, Threading it with colour, like yewberries the yew.
II My spotless love hovers with purest wings, About the temple of the proudest frame, Where blaze those lights, fairest of earthly things, Which clear our clouded world with brightest flame.
To Althea, from Prison WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
In his handling Destiny appears austere in the extreme; she hovers over the heads of mortals in all her gloomy majesty.
Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.
The stiffness hovers over me yet; exercise is beneficial.
There hung over it that inscrutable charm which hovers forever for the human intellect over the incomprehensible and shadowy.
For the true poet the metaphor is not a rhetorical figure, but a vicarious image which actually hovers before him in place of a concept.
It is hardly more than a reminiscence, however, and while not in any way resembling the northern Gothic, at least in the Aquitanian species, hovers on the borderland between the sunny south and the more frigid north.
With all the heaviest worldly visitations Let the dire father's curse that hovers o'er us Work out its dread fulfilment, and the spirit Of wronged Kiuprili be appeased.
Fear hovers round the head of prosperous men, For still unsteady are the scales of fate.
The spirit of Marie Antoinette hovers over me, and demands that I live, and by my life avenge her of her most bitter enemy.
High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all attention.
Vapour rises annually from the lake andhovers over it once in the year, and then sinks down into the centre, and the next year the process is repeated.
An instant gleam as of recognition hovers in the glazing eyes.
When a young wasp leaves its nest for the first time, it does not fly away at once, but hovers in front of the entrance for some time, getting farther and farther away from the nest until it has learned the aspect of surrounding objects.
A faint smile hoversabout his lips that Nature has made rather full and he has made thin, as though keeping a hard secret; but his bright grey eyes, dark round the rim, look out and upwards almost as if he were being crucified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hovers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
