Example Sentences

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By the lapse of time between his departure and his return he and the gnome evidently had hefted the trunk and viewed it at all angles.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

I had known his plans in the past, and had hefted 'em.

From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Holley, Marietta