Word: rove
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...beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice. His words are weighted with patient resignation...
...gentlemen rove abroad to dig with native muckers for pieces of old civilizations. The pieces go into museums, where historians patch up history's gaps, where the populace gapes a holiday, where eager young women copy decorations for the gewgaws of applied art. Finders, keepers and users they...
Commentators observed that no matter what the nature of the new building may turn out to be, it will resemble all other U. S. legations to the extent of having for its telegraphic and cable address the code word "Amlegation." Citizens of the U. S. who rove abroad would do well to remember also that in capitals where the U. S. is represented by an Ambassador his address is "Amembassy," plus, of course, the name of the city where the Embassy is located...
...four and one third miles the Rove Tunnel, a canal 72 feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...
...gold-laced hats--dangle his trusty rapier at his belt and set off for Paris on his faithful and intelligent steed with few misgivings about the future as long as he kept his rapier and his wits well sharpened. At an even earlier date, it was customary to rove over most of Europe in search of chance combats which were productive of much glory and honorable advancement. And later, when the New York Police Force had managed to quell the open warfare popular in the Bowery, it became the custom for warlike gentlemen imbued with the ideals of liberty...