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  • "Heave," cried a voice, "and with a will!" and four cold 32-pound shot were hove at once into the boat alongside, which, crashing through her bottom, swamped her in a moment, precipitating the miserable crew into the boiling sea.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

  • "Heave," cried a voice, "and with a will!" and four cold 32-pound shot were hove at once into the boat alongside, which, crashing through her bottom, swamped her in a moment, precipitating the miserable crew into the boiling sea.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • "Heave," cried a voice, "and with a will!" and four cold 32 -- pound shot were hove at once into the boat alongside, which crashing through her bottom, swamped her in a moment, precipitating the miserable crew into the boiling sea.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • While the first 7 songs would qualify it as a 4 or 5 star album, the last song on the disc, "Heave", is a synth song that goes on for 14 1/2 minutes.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009

  • The 210 congressional elections will give the Liberal Dummycrats the Heave-Ho for sure and long with them the Republicans that voted our counrty into the deep Obama debt!

    GOP airs ads against three Democrats 2009

  • I don't understand "Heave steadies" but I thought the last line "He's already there." might be tying things back to the title of the poem, Heaven for Stanley

    Poetry Friday: "Heaven for Stanley" 2009

  • You can also launch you Jon boat at a boat launch instead of having to Heave-Ho a canoe off the top of your vehicle and on to your back.

    Canoe vs Jon-Boat? Which one would be better for all around use? 2009

  • You can also launch you Jon boat at a boat launch instead of having to Heave-Ho a canoe off the top of your vehicle and on to your back.

    Canoe vs Jon-Boat? Which one would be better for all around use? 2009

  • In Christy Ann Conlin's Heave, Serriethe recovering protagonist wonders exactly what it is Maritimers are supposed to do when they stop drinking.

    Books 2010

  • Heave Hos are mechanical enemies that look like dustpans in Super Mario 64.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Michael James 2010

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