I got the sight on again once more, and with the last of my ammunition, his engine caught fire, and his dive steepened…" Wright, too, was hurtling earthwards: "I was going much too fast to be able to manoeuvre… I closed the throttle, and was now heaving back on the stick with all my strength to drag the aircraft up and around".
Such distant pleasures were just starting to heave back into view, lights on the horizon glimpsed from the deep water of mothering infants.
When Zach mentioned George Vancouver, I imagined a giant ship heaving back and forth in crashing waves.
At one point he falls, perhaps on purpose, into the waves, grinning wildly as he heaves himself back on board.
The fudging of the fiscal cliff issue means there will be a few more crises to come in the US, but Friday's employment numbers suggest that the economy is heaving itself back on its feet.
A few seconds later, the guy wound up and heaved the ball back on to the field, a gesture of contempt previously used only for enemy home runs.
And heave yourself back up.
In a motif that Ferver repeated a few times, he was on all fours, facing away from us, and heaved his back up and down, as though he were retching.
And as each patient stared at triangles projected on the wall, a hidden technician would trigger a giant set of hydraulics underneath the room that heaved it back and forth like a big saltshaker.
"You had to let the line go out, and then when it stopped, you started heaving it back in again.
