Example Sentences

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They cast anything but pleasant looks at their captors, and it was very evident that if they had dared they would have hove them quickly overboard again.

From Sunshine Bill by Kingston, William Henry Giles

"Maybe they have hove their hoards down the well!"

From Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Any other skipper under heaven would have hove to off the lightship and sent in word by the pilot boat to send out a tug.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

In two hours the vessel was putting her lee rail nearly under, and a single sharp squall would have hove her down, so the hands were called up to reef her.

From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by Runciman, James

I might have hove her to, but the first time the breeze hauled easterly she’d have gone up on the beach or among the ice with us.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold