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heaved

Meaning

of Heave

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived. William Butler Yeats

The elites are finally catching up with us. We can hear the swish of leather as saddles are heaved on our backs. The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. Eric Hoffer

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. Mary Oliver

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. George Grey

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. Kurt Vonnegut

Most of England's wit and manhood scintillated in the sunlight, while British matrons and England's fairest maids lit up with looks of proud affection; bosoms heaved in sympathetic unison with the measured tramp of the ammunition boots.... Robert Erskine Childers

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