Hi, everyone
Please tell me which definition of the word ''heaving'' applies in the following context, taken from ''The Camera Eye (36)'', ''1919'' by John Dos Passos:
Time: 1918
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(most of you know by this time there is no punctuation in The Camera Eyes)
Please tell me which definition of the word ''heaving'' applies in the following context, taken from ''The Camera Eye (36)'', ''1919'' by John Dos Passos:
Time: 1918
(---) means spaces in the original text
(most of you know by this time there is no punctuation in The Camera Eyes)
when we emptied the rosies to leeward over the side every night after the last inspection we'd stop for a moment's gulp of the November gale the lash of spray in back of your ears for a look at the spume splintered off the leaping waves shipwreckers drowners of men (...) to glance at the sky veiled with scud to take our hands off the greasy handles of the cans full of slum they couldnt eat (nine meals nine dumpings of the leftover grub nine cussingmatches with the cockney steward who tried to hold out on the stewed apricots inspections AttenSHUN --- click clack At Ease--- shoot the flashlight in everycorner of the tin pans--- nine lineups along the heaving airless corridor of seasick seascared doughboys with their messkits in their hands)