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Hayes also persuaded the Haubs to add surrounding properties, including 400 acres owned by the Hovers with valuable water rights and hillside acreage with important wildlife habitat owned by Horace Smith.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023

“The thing to remember is it's a beginning to a new line of inquiry. It doesn't solve anything,” said Hovers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2017

Erella Hovers, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who reviewed the paper for Nature, says she raised her eyebrows when the manuscript arrived in her inbox: “I was like, ‘Uh, really?’”

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017

Hirohito's effort, read five times: A white cloud like a sash Hovers over Nasu peak Soaring beyond the plateau.

From Time Magazine Archive

In every church a fountain springs, O'er which the Eternal Dove Hovers on softest wings.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher