"Hoverer" Quotes from Famous Books
... knowing? More healthful than the leafiness of dales? More secret than a nest of nightingales? More serene than Cordelia's countenance? More full of visions than a high romance? What, but thee Sleep? Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmurer of tender lullabies! Light hoverer around our happy pillows! Wreather of poppy buds, and weeping willows! Silent entangler of a beauty's tresses! Most happy listener! when the morning blesses Thee for enlivening all the cheerful eyes That glance so ... — Poems 1817 • John Keats
... SHOVELLER. Spatula clypeata, a species of duck with a broad bill. Formerly written schevelard. Also applied to a hoverer ... — The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |