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heave-ho

How to use heave-ho in a sentence

The door banged shut behind him and I heard him at the foot of the stairs roaring "Ho-ho-there-ho!"

He watched her, saw the little body heave down its entire length, noted the small convulsive movements of it.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

The men did “hold on” most powerfully; they did more, they hauled upon the rope, hand over hand, to a “Yo-heave-ho!”

The man roared furiously, and gave a convulsive heave that almost upset myself and the big chair, and disengaged the key!

No man on board knew when the sea might come which would heave her down, and they watched grimly as the gallant craft tore on.

THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN

The sailors who had been lounging about the deck sprang up and looked eagerly across the waves, as the cheerful "Sail-ho!"

Not another man stood on his feet, but the deck was strewn with the dead, whose bodies rolled about at every heave of the waves.

She slipped her arms about his neck, and he felt her breast shaken with the heave of agitated breaths.

Then Crozier called with a great, cheery voice—what Mona used to call his tally-ho voice.

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SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985