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    1. Free as the winds I give thee now to rove:


    2. He let his eyes quickly rove over the crowd to see if he could perhaps get a glimpse of him or even his stallion somewhere down there


    3. Many observers thought Libby's obstruction was to hide the fact that the one who exposed the CIA agent's identity may have been adviser Karl Rove or even Bush himself


    4. Did Wilson tip off his anti-Bush bias when he said he’d like to see Bush’s adviser Rove “frog-marched” out of the White House in handcuffs? When the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee said that Wilson lied when he claimed his wife had no


    5. The anti-Bush forces could only be satisfied with taking out some of his team, including Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rove and Gonzales


    6. Wherever your winds ever rove


    7. Karl Rove, a Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the Presidency of George W


    8. One of his disciples was Karl Rove, who elevated manipulation and nastiness to an unreached high by his actions


    9. Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The Brains


    10. Bush, the 2005 book by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid, offers some of the gems that Rove originated, including the abominable moves he made to destroy John McCain in his bid against Bush for the presidency in 2000, as well as seeing to it that Max Cleland lost to Saxby Chambliss in his run for the Senate in 2002

    11. Then it says that to lie at Baabe embedded in soft dry sand, allowing one's glance to rove about the broad sea with its foam-crested waves, and the rest of one to rejoice in the strong air, is an enviable thing to do


    12. I let my eyes rove around the trunk and the surrounding area


    13. Instead, she stood in the firelight, facing him fully and let his eyes rove over her, unimpeded


    14. surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and after


    15. In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring


    16. Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove,


    17. Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew


    18. I let my vampiric hearing rove


    19. Now, mine continually rove away; when I should be listening to Miss Scatcherd, and collecting all she says with assiduity, often I lose the very sound of her voice; I fall into a sort of dream


    20. With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin

    21. Those families which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, had eaten or starved on the produce of forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in


    22. At morn, hand clasped in hand, they rove


    23. Gaily and with evident and intense enjoyment she let her eyes rove over the faces, and over the walls of the cathedral


    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


    1. They were simple constructions of black-brown wood that made roves over wooden walls of compact posts


    2. Two days later, Old Chippy arrived in Kreplon City train station; a grandiose looking place, if that was what one could call all the rusty looking colossal metal arches above with their glass roves punctured with holes like a meteor hit not too long ago


    3. Way below, were most of the architecture had a four-sided appearance with domed roves, the people were at their daily activities on the streets; all nycarmans


    4. Some motorists, who had the money, could afford ethanol fuel being grown from huge farms of algae from one of the many Green-Puff Houses throughout the city; buildings noted for their circular tapering stones roves and chimneys puffing out greenish-tinge smoke


    5. Around them their escort kept silent, only guiding them to a large hanger with multiple wires stemming from a cone in the top and into the roves of other warehouses


    6. Roves is overjoyed and, when I listen to the completed track later, it’s clear the song has come together beautifully


    7. In the evening, at home, I took out my thick pair of knitting needles and the roves


    8. Marie-Laure roves the cellar in her stocking feet


    9. Now Jaume roves the Tyrant’s Head as Imperial Champion and leader of the Companions, and Carles administers the county in his stead as seneschal


    1. The boys became roving reporters who went about camp each day and simply observed what was going on


    2. engines, provided by a roving band of engineers which had,


    3. It was probably used by roving merchants from other parts of the city that just wanted some rest and relief without the long climb to better quarters


    4. All of these precautions had been implemented in order to prevent roving gangs of outsiders draining the meager stocks of the village


    5. like a roving Christmas caroling party is on its way to its next stop


    6. Hans’s eyes popped open, his head snapping to attention, his eyes roving


    7. Some years ago, the DEQ authorities in Boise established a set of roving vans housing emission control inspection stations


    8. In my time Riot Unit 19 became a roving unit to go to any place in South Africa which needed support


    9. Roving through mind wandering in the secular, shoe on the moon


    10. Roving through sincerity to all directions, forever is our course

    11. Inner charm like a sijiqing, although appearance is not as bright as the flowers bright, charm is like the spring water by roving through outside introversion


    12. The cameras flashed and the pens scribbled and roving


    13. While Karina was roving on behalf of the New York Voice, she had spent a few nights in Paris before going down to Cannes to chase celebrities at the festival


    14. enough roving gangs well armed and intent on killing that a lookout


    15. The White Mice and ARVN troops, supplemented by roving U


    16. Sweating fatigue-clad men gathered at the bar in groups, pairs, or alone, eyes roving


    17. |10| For who has showed despite to an insignificant [or, “small”] day? And [or perhaps, “Yet”] they will rejoice and see the alloy-stone [or “tin-stone”] in the hand of Zerubbabel; these seven [are] the eyes of Hashem, those roving throughout the whole of the earth


    18. Once when he was a roving lieutenant at station #4


    19. as a roving stimulus package


    20. I have received word in advance of your intention to establish a roving militia

    21. As theatres and cinemas emptied, the club began to fill to overflowing, mainly with conventionally dressed singles, couples or groups, whose roving eyes, distracted expressions and nervous smiles broadcast their intentions


    22. And so it came, after much roving of the eyes, that I determined to pry myself from the initial fear that held me at bay, and contended, at least for the while, to scour about the middle level of this haunt


    23. And at length there arose one circumstance that I could not fathom, which, after much roving about, I expressed to the youth


    24. You saw how one went mad at the knowledge that Thog was roving the palaces


    25. Threes: Roving reporter – sits in another part of the room and gives more details on the groups ‘story’ and also interviews the ‘witness’ or ‘subject expert’


    26. I have a roving foot


    27. "We have each a roving foot," answered Conan carelessly


    28. She fought him with fists, feet, knees, teeth and nails, with all the strength of her magnificent body and all the knowledge of hand-to-hand fighting she had acquired in her years of roving and fighting on sea and land


    29. This mixed race was in turn conquered later by a roving tribe of Hybori, and from these mingled elements came the kingdom of Zingara


    30. But east to Vilayet, and from the Arctic circle to the lands of Shem, the only inhabitants were roving tribes of Nordheimr, excepting the Cimmerians, settled in the old Turanian kingdom

    31. out who was in the roving vehicle


    32. “Sir, those roving robots have just succeeded in cutting the main power cables from the generators section


    33. Marisha had long had contacts with higher education institutions in Africa; she had, after all, started her work in international politics by her involvement with the Poland-Africa Association from which she progressed through the Polish diplomatic service to end her career as a roving ambassador for her country; a long and distinguished career made up of deftly executed shifts in navigating the shifting floes of the century’s seemingly frozen politics


    34. Having mooned away during the honeymoon, she finds her life souring well before she turns forty as by then her man would have developed a roving eye


    35. Without a roving eye, won’t he make a steady lover? Oh, had I not stopped him in his tracks then, daredevil that he is, he could have declared his love for me then and there


    36. ‘What a flowing figure! Why, have I ever seen a more desirable woman ever? That is, in spite of my roving eye! What a dream stuff she is? Why, more than that, for I didn’t see such in my wildest dreams really


    37. “Maybe in my youth, my visage had that dual character, which, as I told you, endeared me to many a woman, and that was why without the fear of rejection, I could make a pass at every woman I had ever fancied; well, my weakness had always been the lightly darkish women with a tinge of sadness on their faces, and I was all too brotherly to those who failed to connect with my roving eye


    38. “the spiritual beauty of Rathi’s love lay in ignoring my roving eyes; it was not that she was any less sexy or I loved her any less, but I was too romantic to remain unmoved by the desirable women though she was more ardent than the best I’d ever laid


    39. travel by sea long before the Scandinavians were roving the sea


    40. of the five senses roving amongst objects perceived by the intellect can

    41. Sophie, eyes wide with panic, her gaze roving over him in slow understanding as she tried to shake off the images


    42. Consequently, there was no one to meet or greet her at the airport, except for a couple of roving reporters, who’d been telexed a description of her, after her encounter with Joel’s fireman’s carry, back in Denver


    43. With a jaunty wave, and a wink he left, and Kathy was immediately assailed by a new and even worse dilemma than roving reporters and her mobility on crutches - What was she going to do about transportation!?!


    44. There were pictures of his parents, painted by roving Flemish artists


    45. " Darren had given in, figuring he could come up with some sort of scene in a tavern with bawdy serving maids and a band of roving minstrels for the music


    46. In ten days the Easter recess would be over, and he was due in the House of Lords, where he had been put down for a speech on the Home Rule Bill from the point of view of simple faith, and how was he to leave things in this muddle at home, and how was he to have the peace of mind, the empty clarity, appropriate to a proper approach of the measure if his inward eye went roving away to Redchester all the time and to the increasing confusion on his study table?


    47. I fancied that his roving eye was considering various means of utilizing his seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity if occasion should arise


    48. Moreover, as a roving reporter for


    49. When the ability to experience the euphoric states of happiness and joy associated with a sexual encounter with the beloved is lost, the partners start to have more and more of a roving eye, hoping to find a different person for whom they could experience the feelings and desires peculiar to the enamored state


    50. Usually, she prudently chose less attractive girls although I never had a roving eye




































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    Synonyms for "rove"

    cast drift ramble range roam roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander explore stroll straggle encompass

    "rove" definitions

    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment