Sentence examples for hover on the edge from inspiring English sources

"I live in a place where Confederate soldiers in ragged uniforms hover on the edge of one's vision, beckoning from the mist, calling us back into the past," says Robicheaux, a detective with the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department, who welcomes these ghosts because they keep him sober and focused.

Yet these secular friends often hover on the edge of faith.

In the meantime, European diplomats hover on the edge of the talks.

On the fifth green, he had a birdie putt stop and hover on the edge of the hole.

But sometimes they hover on the edge of representation, evoking trees, a pond or other aspects of nature.

But sometimes they hover on the edge of representation, evoking trees, a pond and other aspects of nature.

He would take his young wife to the Cinemathèque, where she would hover on the edges, listening to the high-blown chat about movies from Godard and his cronies (Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Henri Langlois and the like).

Georg and Freddie go to all-night fancy-dress balls and one night end up in bed together, hovering on the edge of erotic contact.

There are some notable exceptions: the Platters' "Only You (And You Alone)," one of the crowning achievements of a vocal group that hovered on the edge of rock and roll, is here, along with a weaker version by the Hilltoppers.

He hovers on the edge of political liberalisation.

As I hovered on the edge of the moulin, I also hovered on the edge of my rationality.