Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
Quotes about hovered (16 Quotes)
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
We set off towards the square, where a knot of old folks hovered around the local pigeon community, their lives reduced to a ritual of spreading crumbs and waiting.
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter hovered over the assembled group. I thought, 'How did we come to this' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.
in the neighborhood of last year's, which hovered around 60 million and is in baseball's lower middle class.
The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.
Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum know thyself, but as if there hovered before them the commandment will a self and thou shalt become a self.
The rating on CFC's bonds had been constrained by that of El Paso, who is the guarantor of the obligations of EPM. Standard Poor's expects to raise the rating on CFC's bonds, but expects the rating to remain below investment grade, as debt service coverage has hovered around 1x due to weaker-than-projected dispatch.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.
It's a tall order when you've hovered around .500 all year to suddenly start thinking about running the table. But if you can't believe you can do it, you're certainly never going to accomplish it.
If a pilot says a UFO hovered off the bow of his plane, it either happened or it didn't. It's either yes or no, and if we're not alone, our planet needs to know that so that we know what to do tomorrow.
During the early, comparatively uneventful months I hovered between London and New York writing too hurriedly a second novel, The Living and the Dead.