Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoving
Literary usage of Hoving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER V How King Arthur shewed the stone hoving on the water to Galahad, and
how he drew out the sword. THE queen heard thereof, and came after with many ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"How king Arthur shewed the stone hoving on the water to sir Galahad, and how he
drew out the sword. JHE queene heard thereof, and came after with many ..."
3. The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and by Sidney Lanier, Thomas Malory (1880)
"[How AN OLD MAN] BROUGHT SIR GALAHAD UNTO THE SIEGE PERILOUS, AND SET HIM THEREIN;
AND HOW KING ARTHUR SHOWED THE STONE, hoving ON THE WATER, TO GALAHAD, ..."
4. Agriculture Improv'd: Or, The Practice of Husbandry Display'd: Chiefly Shewn by William Ellis (1746)
"... or hoving, we drive them out of the Field, and immediately have the Cow held
by the Horns and ..."
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