heave into sight

Idioms  

1. Rise or seem to rise into view. For example, We waited and waited, and finally the rest of our party heaved into sight. This expression was at first used for ships rising over the horizon. [Late 1700s]

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heave into sight

When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Half-way up the road to the Mess Wargrave looked back and saw an elephant heave into sight around a bend below the Dermots' house and plod heavily up to their gate.

From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon

Old Dan Flannagan's jitney-bus will soon heave into sight.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

He would have been glad to see a rescuing vessel heave into sight.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Penrose, Margaret

Natalie, leaping from stone to stone across the stream, suddenly saw Garth's figure heave into sight around a bend in the path.

From Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest by Potts, William Sherman