The hovering thought that they must and would renounce each other made this moment of mute confession more intense in its rapture.
As for Maggie, she had no distinct thought, only the sense of a presence like that of a closely hovering broad-winged bird in the darkness, for she was unable to look up, and saw nothing but Minny's black wavy coat.
There is a more eager, inquiring look in her eyes than there was last June, and a smile is hovering about her lips, as if some playful speech were awaiting the right hearer.
" But when she not only failed to discern Maggie, but presently saw Tom returning from the pool alone, this hovering fear entered and took complete possession of her, and she hurried to meet him.
" said Maggie, exerting her hypothetic powers, while she leaned forward toward Tom with her eyes fixed on the hovering knife.
His thoughts floated then serenely in the empyrean, and he felt towards her the horror that perhaps the painted butterfly, hovering about the flowers, feels to the filthy chrysalis from which it has triumphantly emerged.
It involved the attendance of the entire staff—Domenico and the boy Giuseppe coaxing the patent stove to burn, restraining it when it burnt too fiercely, using the bellows to it when it threatened to go out, relighting it when it did go out; Francesca anxiously hovering over the tap regulating its trickle, because if it were turned on too full the water instantly ran cold, and if not full enough the stove blew up inside and mysteriously flooded the house; and Costanza and Angela running up and d
Wilkins, who was very careful all this month to give Mellersh only the food he liked, buying it and hovering over its cooking with a zeal more than common, succeeded so well that Mellersh was pleased; definitely pleased; so much pleased that he began to think that he might, after all, have married the right wife instead of, as he had frequently suspected, the wrong one.
He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head.
In a little while all that obtrusive yellowness and complacency will be gone and we'll find here misty, phantom-like globes hovering over those long grasses in full harmony with the traditions of the forest.
The Bird Island on the western tip hosts hundreds of thousand migrate birds, hovering over the sky or diving into the water.
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) It certainly has been a trying financial chapter for the Archer, with Pluto hovering in your sign for quite some time now.
This digital alarm clock launches a rotor into the air that flies around the room as the alarm sounds, hovering up to 9' in the air, and will not cease ringing until the rotor is returned to the alarm clock base, compelling even the most stubborn sleepers to get out of bed on time.
Big question: Will corruption allegations hovering over this campaign, along with the problems the Republican Party is experiencing in California, give Democrats a chance at capturing this seat?
" The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.
One day in March 1981, 19813, Andy Hertzfeld came back to the office from dinner ·, to find Jobs hovering over their one Mac prototype in intense discussion with the creative services director, James Ferris.
" Kottke decided to press his case with Jobs by hovering outside his office and catching him to make a plea.
You're also up against all the other people who are on dates on Friday night: Nothing says "romance" like a two-hour wait for space at the bar, where she'll end up perched on a tiny stool and you'll end up hovering nearby, jostled by people reaching through your conversation to order margaritas which will inevitably spill on your pants.
Hovering and over-parenting is linked with psychological problems.
Cleaning your house with all the bending, hovering and stretching to clean those hard to reach spots can be an arduous task.
