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roved
1. Several swaggering Naud taskmasters roved through the huge bay
2. As we got closer our eyes roved the country sight seeking out places where ambushes might be situated the Captain sent ten of our men forward to recce the village to see if any of the enemy were lurking there
3. Kiri’s eyes roved over his tired features, and she reached forward and took his hand in hers
4. With a moan of pain she forced herself to sit up, having to squint for a second time so that she could see what was around her, her eyes roved around; stopping once they locked onto a now prone figure lying in the right corner of the wall that the window was on
5. As his eyes roved to the far side of the cave they came to rest upon the limp and lifeless body of Leora
6. in a great while, no one is roved out or on vacation or sick leave
7. His matching eyes roved over the attending group
8. lip, as her eyes roved over his body
9. His gaze roved to the green roof above their heads, a solid ceiling of thick leaves and interwoven arches
10. When he raised his head there was sanity in his bloodshot eyes and he stretched his massive limbs out on the marble floor as she requested, though he kept his saber in his hand, and his eyes continually roved toward the archways
11. He had made a loop with the merchant's belt at the end of the poles, and was carrying his share of the load with one hand, while the other gripped his naked broadsword, and his restless gaze roved the sinister walls about them
12. His fierce blue eyes roved about the chamber, and he kept his sword close to his hand
13. Ahead of him roved a swarm of scouts, and Amalric waited impatiently for them to return and tell of the Poitanians trapped beside a furious flood
14. I roved about and noticed that there were shoe prints in the ground, the type that could be compared with combat boots
15. He spun around to face her, his hazy eyes growing more alert as his gaze roved over her scantily-clad body
16. Ben’s eyes roved Francesca’s in worry
17. Sydney’s eyes roved over the crowd, obviously taking stock of the cute-guy quotient, and I wondered how serious she really was about being with Anthony
18. Wolf and the pack, who roved the deer with their eyes enough to make them nervous; the Turkeys were there, Janine looking displeased as animals bumped into her, while Bud was cautiously having a good time, furtive glances back to his wife reminded him that he was on borrowed time
19. The Rover roved on towards its’ goal and by eight o’clock Nottingham was on the horizon
20. ” Her finger roved the sheet
21. Her eyes widened as they roved over his body
22. " His eyes roved around the clearing, almost like they were seeing it for the first time
23. A wide open park, enclosed against injury, yet with its natural beauty unspoiled, with stately forest trees, many of them bearing fruit, watered by clear streams, on whose banks roved large herds of antelopes or sheep
24. But she did not get it, for though he joined her and answered all her questions freely, she could only learn that he had roved about the Continent and been to Greece
25. The little girls had a private tea party, and Ted roved among the edibles at his own sweet will
26. Winters and summer, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be said that Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand—There is but a single Ruler of us all, whatever may the color of the skin; and Him I call to witness, that before the Mohican boy shall perish for the want of a friend, good faith shall depart the 'arth, and 'killdeer' become as harmless as the tooting we'pon of the singer!"
27. His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room—he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind
28. Thus, during this October month of wonderful afternoons they roved along the meads by creeping paths which followed the brinks of trickling tributary brooks, hopping across by little wooden bridges to the other side, and back again
29. Inside this exterior, over which the eye might have roved as over a thing scarcely percipient, almost inorganic, there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love
30. My eyes roved and fixed on one
31. For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St
32. My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up
33. A gang of bastard sailors roved through the land and carried me off—a little boy to be sold for a slave in the Indies
34. Mac’s restless eyes roved about among the trees
35. And as a country damsel roved,
36. Then, when nothing was doing, the Cossacks roved in the neighbourhood and robbed
37. Suddenly her eye roved to the floor of the little cockpit, and her face took on suddenly its severe lines of the day before
38. ” Her eyes roved anxiously down the beach, and suddenly fixed
39. Soon, however, everything was blotted from his consciousness save a section of brown hill, over which his eyes roved eagerly in search of the small, Japanese-looking fungi