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Copsa Mica's chief industry is tire production, and 24 hours a day its smokestacks heave out noxious, coal-based clouds that cake faces and fingers, cars and houses, grass and trees with endless soot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The relief trucks were mobbed by hungry and cold people, prompting the panicked volunteers to heave out their aid packages and leave.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Layman Jack Sutton, speaking at a Disciples' banquet: "If we could heave out the pastors, the Disciples and the Baptists would have no trouble in getting together."

From Time Magazine Archive

If you keep on talkin' loony in this way I'll begin to heave out a few hints myself.

From Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

There I managed somehow to heave out the little box upon dry land, and, finding a handy lump of a stone, I wasn’t long smashing the iron fastenings, and lifting up the lid.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 by Various




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