Meanings of heaving under in English

Almost, he fancied, he felt it heaving under him in its breathing.

Mr. Hardy walked away feeling as if the ground were heaving under him.

She rose, white to the lips, her bosom heaving under her long cloak.

They were moving, growing as he watched-he could feel them heaving under his boots.

The floor appeared to be heaving under their feet.

She leant against the door post, her broad bosom heaving under her scanty stuff gown.

They could feel the ground heaving under their feet while water sloshed in the lap pool.

The walls and roof were shuddering and creaking, and the concrete floor was heaving under their feet.

She felt as though the bed were heaving under her and her feet were entangled in the bed-clothes.

His sides heaving under their mantle of blood, Vivillo's rush subsided to a trot, as in the home-pasture far away.

Each day I dreamt I woke up, the river whispering in my ear, or the wind heaving under empty sky.

He could see her bosom heaving under the half-open fur cloak, felt her hand close for an instant on his arm.

The lunch table had been pushed up against one wall and was now heaving under large trays of sandwiches and cakes ready for tea.

And Judas lamented still more grievously, and groaned and ground his teeth, and his whole huge body could be heard heaving under the coverlet.

All at once he felt the water heaving under him as if suddenly parted by some heavy body, and then seething against his person.

Roma was superb at that moment, with her head thrown back, her eyes flaming, and her magnificent figure swelling and heaving under her clinging gown.