What is "hoveler"

Usage examples of "hoveler".

Daniel Hoveler, who was nothing if not an earnest researcher, raised strained eyes from the eyepiece of his microstage, then got up from his chair to stand beside his workbench.

A month ago, thought Hoveler, few of the people in this room would have recognized her face, and she would have received no more attention than any other random visitor.

They were not really including Hoveler in their conversation, but they spoke without caring whether he could hear them.

Or at least that was the interpretation Hoveler put on her tired murmur, words now gradually fading toward inaudibility.

That modest stubbornness on the part of Communications somehow conveyed, to Hoveler at least, the suggestion that someone closely associated with the Premier Dirac, if not Dirac himself, was trying to get through.

Obviously Anyuta was not used to such pressure, and Hoveler was afraid that she was somewhat panicked by it.

Regulations called for acceleration couches to be available here for the two of them, but, as Hoveler recalled, those devices had been taken away months ago in some routine program of modification, and had never been brought back.

Zador replied, with what Hoveler applauded as admirable calm under the circumstances, that even had the drive capability been available, she was not about to suicidally destroy herself or anyone else.

Daniel Hoveler had left his post, where he had already carried out, quite uselessly, such duties as the manuals prescribed.

From one deck to another, Hoveler and Zador kept up a terse communication.

But the seconds of inexplicable survival stretched on into minutes while Hoveler kept trying very cleverly and subtly to inflict damage, controlled but irreversible, upon the thinking hardware.

In the midst of this passage, while peering carefully to his right, Hoveler froze momentarily.

In any event, Hoveler managed to get to the next companionway and the next deck without being detected.

Once Hoveler had been dragged back, neither he nor Zador had attempted to leave the laboratory deck.

Privately Hoveler estimated the number on board the station to be about a dozen in all.