| 单词 | billowy |
| 例句 | They float close above me in thick, solid folds of billowy white sheets. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I forgot to add: The whole package is bow-tied in a billowy, diaphanous, organically grown hijab. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z But if she tried to take on one more language, she thought, she might explode—like the almond trees with their billowy blossoms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All the men in the photographs wore hats; the women and girls were in billowy skirts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She looked more like a billowy cloud that could rise right up through the trees, whenever Mother finally let her go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But then I start sweating straight through my billowy new shirt, and could probably use an official moment alone with my deodorant. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The wildling caught him by the end of his billowy white beard and hacked off three-quarters of it with a single slash of the axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the dawn light, billowy clouds mounded against the far horizon like a snowdrift. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The image of raw billowy water vines fills my head. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dimple picked up a billowy something that was probably a sleeve. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a pencil drawing of the author, sporting a velvet jacket, a billowy white shirt and cravat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, he was wearing an outfit of his mother’s choosing, sent to him this morning: a vest of dark bluish-green velvet, with almost ridiculously billowy white sleeves bursting from the blue-and-white-striped shoulders. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z One is wearing a faded and billowy black dress, and the other wears a saggy skirt that looks like an old curtain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Many painters of the Italian Renaissance had painted huge billowy, bosomy naked ladies. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The wide-open building that serves as church and school was built of concrete-block pillars holding up a roof of palm thatch and billowy clouds of scarlet bougainvillea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm sun and billowy breezes dried them as they went. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She’s in jeans and a billowy shirt—obviously not intending to go to the revel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It stood apart from the billowy confection that Princess Diana wore. On the Runway: Simplicity Wears the Crown 2011-04-29T20:29:38Z That influence lingers, especially in Leonore Wheatley's chiming vocals and the billowy melodies of Step Outside and Long Highway. The Soundcarriers: Celeste 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z The form-fitting new costumes — less billowy than the old, but still in the same red, black and white color scheme — only intensified that air of restraint, as did the stifling heat in the Armory. Review: ‘Available Light’ Takes Over an Armory at Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In between are a pair of fabulous instrumental covers of compositions from Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — the flowing, billowy “Skating” and “Christmas is Coming,” which is jazzy and partly whistled. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Silhouettes were long and loose, sometimes billowy, in chiffon, tulle and silk. Easy, fluid style rules NY Fashion Week 2010-09-16T21:43:00Z At first, Symone was going to interpret the challenge to create a train with billowy sleeves, but then she thought, “What if it was a durag?” Symone Is a Love Letter to Blackness and Queerness 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z She delivers a sweet and sour mix of billowy chord progressions and quesy string and saxophone atmospherics with her quintet. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z Fighting the tradition of a ruffled skirt, she wore a pair of black satin pants and a billowy white blouse. Dance Review: Sometimes a Little of This and Some More of That Add Up to a Lot 2010-10-01T22:56:00Z Finally, the opera returns to the knights on a billowy white bed. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z She wore sandals, a billowy skirt and a beseeching expression. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z Described as an "exploration of visibility and invisibility," it's set to music by Laurie Anderson, with a set and billowy costumes by Brown's longtime collaborator, artist Robert Rauschenberg. Trisha Brown Dance Company brings familiar favorites, world premiere to Seattle 2011-03-26T01:04:18Z Blueprints of chicken coops were replaced with pictures of floppy straw hats, which gave way to links to billowy cottagecore dresses. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In an early sketch, a panel of billowy fabric is caught at the waist and left to trail toward the hem. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z Frankly, they look a little like Halloween decorations: billowy, semi-sheer white fabric pieces draped over two of my urban front-yard garden’s raised beds. Urban gardening: Floating row covers protect winter plants The Ottawa-raised Oh reclined in a seersucker jacket and billowy pants and sipped from her trusty drink bottle, marked to track her hydration throughout the day. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer Lay ‘Killing Eve’ to Rest 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z In the first scene she wore a white cage crinoline over billowy polka-dot pants; a twist of the torso made her look like a shuttlecock attending a Madonna concert in 1985. Dance Review: ?Mandorla? by Jenny Rocha at Here Arts Center 2012-04-15T21:25:28Z In a performance crisply preserved on 16 millimeter film, Maria dances quick stylized parallel lifts of her knees wearing a billowy feathered headdress, pompoms and a sash. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Cream pies filled with a luscious vanilla pudding and topped with a billowy torched meringue. A completely delicious guide to popular types of pie 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z She was wearing a billowy pink dress and neon coral sandals, and she had teal toenails that matched her sunglasses. Cultural Studies: Hollywood’s New Stars: Pedestrians 2013-08-16T23:31:35Z Her look is meant to suggest a billowy glamour, conjuring seaside holidays in Belize or St.-Tropez. Front Row: Is Issa in Line for Throne? 2010-11-24T20:50:00Z Ms. Rips wore a billowy coral-colored dress that fell to her ankles. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z “The smell is what I remember, the comfort of the smell,” she said as she sat on a banquette in her kitchen, wearing jeans and a flowered, billowy blouse. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z A final take-away Tuesday was a preview of “Nimbus,” the installation of billowy clouds overhanging the escalators leading from the parking lot to the Disney lobby. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z They were as Twain described them: “Two magnificent pyramids, clad in the softest and richest green, all flecked with shadow and sunshine, whose summits pierce the billowy clouds.” | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z They also put together blouses with billowy sleeves and slim bottoms. In refocusing clothing line, Olsens shun spotlight 2012-02-14T03:00:14Z Prescott Fond Blanc is another French variety but is beige and billowy. Perspective | The melon still wraps its tendrils around seed guru Amy Goldman 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Think back to a favorite summer and chances are it will include a billowy blockbuster or a marvelous musical, topped by youthful shenanigans. The Joy! The Embarrassment! Stars Remember Dates at the Movies 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z As raindrops splattered a “Love Me” graffiti mural, a divided crowd arrived: skinny 20-somethings in motorcycle jackets next to older men wearing billowy dress shirts and straight-leg jeans. South Beach for the Local Crowd 2013-01-25T23:11:47Z She and her backup dancers were outfitted in billowy black silk, creating a cascade effect every time they moved, which was often. Ciara’s ‘Jackie’ Shows a Singer Evolving 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Winfrey, in a billowy shirt and big earrings, was by turns ebullient and serious as she talked about her first film appearance since “Beloved,” in 1998. Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker on ‘The Butler’ 2013-08-07T12:00:01Z “I wear them but never without a blazer and billowy skirt or wide culotte,” she said. The Bared Midriff is Everywhere You Look, Even the Red Carpet 2014-05-09T20:39:30Z Time in a tent is usually accompanied by shrieks of laughter, and whenever Ian naps among the dappled light and billowy fabric, he wakes up in the best mood. Camping with toddler is a joyful challenge worth the effort 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The British designer sent out fetching variations on his hallmark baroque, layered silhouette: Cropped trench coats cinched tight at the waist were worn over billowy harem pants in Japanese prints or multitiered chiffon skirts. Celine aims to redefine luxury values 2010-10-03T23:31:00Z Mr. Harris excels at telling stories through that style, though his symbolism can be blunt, like the costume change halfway through from colorful street clothes into billowy white. Review: Alvin Ailey’s ‘Awakening’ Projects a Sense of Fight-or-Flight 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Driftwood accents, billowy curtains and muted tones imbue a relaxed, sophisticated ambience, while living-plant walls add a tropical element. A South Beach Hotel Takes Its Cues From Nature 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Walking past St. Mark’s Church in the East Village last Thursday night, pedestrians slowed to look at the man in billowy white on top of a trailer, raising a white flag. Reviews: Summoning Spirits and Dancing in Latex Body Bags 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z His costume is the best — a Western formal waistcoat and billowy Turkish pants — topped by a walrus mustache and fez. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Oh, and sometimes she strides from one place to another place wearing a billowy cloak. The five most pathetic female film characters of all time 2011-03-08T19:30:01Z Suddenly, as I was walking through Barneys, I was struck by a vision in the Marc Jacobs section was a billowy lace, sea-foam-colored gown. What I Wore: What I Wore - Ali Wentworth 2012-02-10T23:43:01Z On a busy day, opt for a billowy cotton nightie with plenty of room to move. Wear Your Nightie Out 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Dressed in a billowy sundress on a Friday afternoon in February, she walked around to the front of my car and eyed up the scuff marks near one headlight. The Unsinkable Molly Shannon 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Throughout, Savanna sings with airy sweep, and Mat booms like a drill sergeant — on “Thankful,” father and daughter harmonize into billowy bliss. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z A triangular cave about as tall as a person emitted great billowy clouds of steam, and gentle waterfalls fed stair-stepping pools at its entrance. November is hot-spring season in the wild woods 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Ndegeocello, covered in tattoos and wearing a billowy black and white tunic, paced among them. Grammy nominee brings young Seattle-area musicians into harmony 2013-05-09T04:34:36Z Turning his attention once again to the billowy jumpsuit, he said: “What would I look like in that, a pregnant woman?” Afternoon Beers With a Former Sex Pistol 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z But I had grown tired of soft, malleable jeans, quick to turn billowy after just a few months of wear. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z The light streaming in from the pyramid-shaped skylight creates a sense of flying free, as do the billowy painted clouds that appear to float up the baby-blue walls. Prince’s former studio and residence in Minnesota now is open as a museum 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z On Thursday at David Geffen Hall, Rouvali, too, was a calm and lucid guide through the piece — which came off, however, as billowy and somewhat baggy. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z It doesn’t contain a beat – nothing, not even an “808s and Heartbreak” style billowy muffle. Kanye West's 'Only One' featuring Paul McCartney: His worst-ever track? 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Beautiful dresses and billowy layers of underclothing often litter the stage, casually discarded in the same way that the fickle Casanova left behind so many women after his conquests. Review: Frisky Malkovich in 'Giacomo Variations' 2013-06-03T18:30:10Z Even as Vicky Shick’s arms push forward and back like undulating waves, the dancer — in a billowy fuchsia dress — moves with seemingly little force. Dance Review: ‘35 ½,’ Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke 2013-05-19T21:58:03Z In all her work, from billowy solo piano to sharp ensemble playing, melody was her main concern. Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Bright, billowy skeins of yellow and orange fabric swirl around her body leaving only her face exposed. Antonia Wright pulls a disappearing act at Luis De Jesus 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The billowy fins, the showy spikes shooting from its spine, the majestic stripes flowing into the distinctive mane. Add adrenaline to a beach vacation and save the Belize Barrier Reef by hunting lionfish 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But try this instead: Give in to the billowy, mercurial nature of the meringue’s natural movements. The Pavlova Begs for Improvisation 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z And while there’s a familial similarity between these works, Roussel’s style is ever so slightly more angular, with an underlying feeling of logic distinct from Ravel’s billowy scene painting. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The commissioned score by multi- instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens, performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra, is big and billowy and roaring, with powerful propulsion as well as moments of shimmering light. New York City Ballet’s life-affirming new works boost the spirit 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In “Bribes de corps” — body scraps — two billowy vertical forms in a ripe peach hue flaming against turquoise blue slowly reveal themselves to be thighs and knees. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Across its seven songs, Jenkins grieves, wanders and wrings meaning from interactions with strangers, her musings set to billowy horns, spry guitars and field recordings. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z All eyes were focused on a juggling team that tossed flaming sticks in the air, their acrobatics accompanied by the rhythmic beating of tom-toms played by musicians clad in billowy Ali Baba pants. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z It's worth noting that Bella, in her final scene, is suddenly sporting extra volume and billowy waves. "Eclipse" dawns, or something 2010-06-29T19:04:00Z On St. Vincent’s 2011 album, “Strange Mercy,” the settings were often plush and billowy. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z So, after so many sketches and words, the spring 2011 runway collection began with a series of billowy chiffon "flying dresses." Elbaz puts his fingerprint on Lanvin 2011-11-14T17:59:04Z His wingspan — its billowy effect — is completely hypnotic. The Dance of Too-Hot Summer? Melt Into the Pinegrove Shuffle. 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z “Before Diana’s wedding, you couldn’t find a dress anywhere that was all billowy,” said Susan Glick, the vice president for women’s apparel for New York International Bridal Week, a trade organization. The Royal Wedding: Waiting for the Dress 2011-04-22T23:06:37Z Models wore collarless jackets and short feminine dresses in pastel colours as well as boxy satin jackets paired with billowy shorts in Friday night's show. Cherckerboard reigns on Versace catwalk at Milan Fashion Week 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z As Adameyko carefully dissected it, he noticed billowy outer parts, which Minemizu’s footage captured propelling the strange creature, attached to the flat side of a brown hemisphere. ‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature spotted off Japan has finally been identified 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “The authors give little emphasis to mastery of facts and standard algorithms” but instead promote “vague, billowy ‘big ideas.’ California's math overhaul aims to help struggling students. But will it hurt whiz kids? 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z News reports at the time, including from The Associated Press, feature similar video clips of the classically-designed building with flames and dark billowy smoke pouring out. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Blueberries mingled with juicy red strawberries, a sweet biscuit and billowy white whipped cream make for a fun red-white-and-blueberry shortcake option. 3 recipes to capture pleasantly plump blueberries while they're fresh 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Through the resolution, the city formally apologized for wielding their power to outlaw the white-legged trousers and billowy coats rather than cracking down on the white mobs perpetrating the violence. L.A. apologizes for city’s role in Zoot Suit riots 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In his first major rap battle, in 2013, he looked more like a bard, wearing a black vest over a white shirt with billowy sleeves. From Rap Star to Engineer to Young Mayor Demolishing Swaths of Kathmandu 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z His jacket was so billowy he brought to mind Talking Heads, lead singer David Byrne in his big suit. Where are the Masters green jackets stored? Exclusive vault opened for first time 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Depending on the number of restaurants at the resort — guests at Sandals Barbados or Sandals Royal Barbados have dining privileges at 21 spots — start early and wear billowy clothing. Advice | How to do an all-inclusive vacation if you hate lying around Brooke, who grew up in Brooklyn and planned to pass down her impeccable style to her daughter, filled a closet with billowy tulle dresses, cozy footed pajamas and tiny Converse infant booties. Doctors ignored her concerns about her pregnancy. For many Black women, it’s a familiar story 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The billowy phenomenon was visible on Tuesday above the crest of the Bighorn Mountains from the city of Sheridan. Rare wave clouds amaze sky-watchers in Wyoming 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z This year’s horror queen Mia Goth, too, wearing a billowy red dress with a 6-foot train and an expression that could be read as either sheer delight or abject terror. Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy honored at Governors Awards 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Time is embodied in the gentle movement of light through interior rooms and across the landscape, as low and billowy clouds drift by. Review: A useful but unsatisfying new documentary tackles the career of Light & Space artist Robert Irwin 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In beautifully draped and billowy costumes, eight dancers evoke mysterious relationships and fragmented emotional states, accompanied by musicians including a soprano, tenor, pianist and cellist. For dancers performing in museums, first rule is: Don’t bump into art 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z This morning, she was surrounded by admirers and other activists, plus a life-size figure draped in billowy fabric. Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marks a long road to equality 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Convection precipitation is formed in the more billowy clouds and occurs when air from the warmer surface of the Earth rises, sometimes to great heights. Seattle-specific seasons and the different types of rain 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The billowy white Oxford shirt was a few sizes too large and opaque enough to hide the burgundy Washington jersey underneath. Sam Farmer: How I sneaked into Super Bowl XVII (it was easy) 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Sweet stood in front of her mirror this past March, gazing at herself in the long billowy skirt and neatly wrapped top of the traditional Korean hanbok. Young Asian Americans in Seattle combat hate, reclaim cultural pride with traditional fashion 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z The outlet reports that she wore a billowy white, lace dress that she told her followers on Instagram was her mother’s wedding dress from when she got hitched in 1978. John Mulaney's ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler makes first public appearance since divorce to debut new artwork 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z It shows a burly, bearded man — a bear — fancied up and prancing in curvy platinum wig, billowy dress and spike heels, mimicking Johnson’s statue. Commentary: Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs is an offense to Pride Month 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z And the top is the meringue, not soft and billowy as it is in a pie, but crunchy. A Lemon Meringue Cookie Good Enough to Be Imaginary 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It was to be given in India in the shadow the Himalayas with the audience called to its exalted places by bells suspended from the billowy white clouds in a cerulean sky. Why Scriabin’s satanic Ninth Sonata, 'Black Mass,' is a scary wonder of music 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “The rest of his half is untucked, billowy, free.” Perspective | We hold this truth to be self-evident: Some spouses lie 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Then I saw a photograph that rocked my world: a tumble of billowy white clouds dusted in green pistachios. These three-ingredient meringues are the perfect excuse to eat dessert for breakfast 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z It had the billowy breathlessness of a pop message anthem, a predictable enough construction that you might miss the most convincing thing about it: Its vision of solidarity is idealistic without being too abstract. Is country music finally ready for Mickey Guyton? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The judge’s billowy white beard lent an air of authenticity to the role. Students cheer Santa in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ reenactment 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Convection precipitation is the intense kind formed in more billowy and puffy-looking clouds, Johnson said. Why are raindrops smaller in Seattle? How do the mountains affect Puget Sound weather? Your rain questions, answered. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z She was small enough that the billowy tunics would make her look even smaller. “Old Hope” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z In between are a pair of fabulous instrumental covers of compositions from Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” - the flowing, billowy “Skating” and “Christmas is Coming,” which is jazzy and partly whistled. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The billowy pants-skirts worn by the men and women were suitable for an Antwerp runway. Review: Stravinsky's exceedingly slow ‘Rake's Progress’ from West Hollywood to Ojai 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It looks sloppy, it looks billowy and it’s certainly not achieving that thoughtful-yet-casual type of look. Untuckit’s future: more stores, roomy shirts for beefy guys 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Prior pictures success, maybe a MacArthur genius award, a loving partner and children, and enough money to fund art projects, airy lofts and billowy denim fashion ensembles. Review: Mixing old, young, and those in-between, Gob Squad's improvisational antics at REDCAT demand to be seen - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The drawing’s billowy cloud is less a dramatic caprice than an ominous fog-bank, however, its representation of lust less a playful sin than a fraught occasion for possible violence. Review: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's searing paintings delve into the structures of spiritualism - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z For the preseason game against the Denver Broncos, they wore black leggings with their sparkly bra-tops, and for the Sept. 16 home opener against the Indianapolis Colts, their bustier-style tops included billowy, elbow-length sleeves. Redskins implement changes to cheerleading program after investigating mistreatment 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A billowy, patterned blouse smells a bit ripe. Rent the Runway is taking clothes-sharing mainstream 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z When serving it as a dessert, you might want to add a dollop of crème fraiche or a billowy combination of that and whipped cream. A Chocolate Cake Recipe That’s Seriously Intense 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The other type of lava is called pahoehoe, which cools more slowly and leaves a smooth, billowy surface as it creeps across land. Scientists study lava for clues to how volcano will behave 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Over the course of years, her soufflés started emerging from the oven textbook perfect: tall, flat, golden and billowy. No Time for a Breakfast Soufflé? Try a ‘Soufflazy’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z One morning on a whim I put on one of her button-down shirts: a billowy pale-blue one knotted at the bottom. Opinion | Wearing My Dying Mother’s Clothes 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z When the wind picks up, it sends enormous, billowy clouds of gray ash into the car's path, obscuring the bumpy road ahead. Artist John Wullbrandt lost vital paintings in the Thomas fire, but found renewal in fighting the flames – LA Times 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Eventually, the blue screen behind her will be replaced with billowy clouds against an impossible sky. Why A Wrinkle in Time Will Change Hollywood 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Jourdain, 43, wore slacks and a billowy black-and-white shirt, damp with sweat. The Dominican Dance Party That Refuses to Die 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z This conscientious objector, a cooperative of 11 female artisans working in a former stationery shop from the 19th century, specializes instead in high-end design objects, jewelry and billowy women’s wear. A Guide to Reykjavik, as Wonderfully Weird as Ever 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z At District BBQ, they cook only with wood, with billowy clouds of smoke that touch everything inside the restaurant, including the patrons who walk through it. Review | District BBQ and three other runners-up for best barbecue in the D.C. area 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It would seem these pieces represent an effort by the brand to lean into new trends, as voluminous and billowy silhouettes are lately taking center stage. Analysis | The harsh reality for Anthropologie: It’s still selling the wrong clothes 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The skylights turn what might have been a heavy blanket into something luminous and billowy. Abba Tor, Who Engineered T.W.A. Terminal at Kennedy Airport, Dies at 93 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Outside the beer hall in Hanoi, under a tree festooned with Christmas lights, a stout elderly woman in billowy striped pants presided, with a cleaver, over a little stand that served roasted dog. Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a rising star at a time when women players wore billowy dresses and used wooden rackets. Trump Transition, Standing Rock, MDMA: Your Wednesday Briefing 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Then there’s this nettlesome question: Would there be any such angst if the entourage members weren’t black and didn’t wear billowy jeans and copious jewelry? Phil Jackson Is Wrong About LeBron's 'Posse' 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Turns out that people with a lot of face makeup and bizarre, billowy hair aren’t just frightening America from debate podiums. Creepy clowns spook a country already freaked out by political ones 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z She pulls from a rack the sort of clothes a liturgical dance troupe would wear: a stretchy white skirt that reaches to the floor, a long pair of slacks, a billowy tunic. The curtain is closing on a Prince George’s County dance supply store 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The year is 1910, and the mere glimpse of billowy bloomers causes a sensation. Review: Billowy Bloomers Made Her the Talk of Düsseldorf 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z When it floated down the runway at Chloé’s fall/winter 2016 show in March, it was a billowy number splotched with colors like sunlight bouncing off a lake. Designing Beyond Chloé: Inside Clare Waight Keller’s Parisian Home 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z She wore a billowy black blouse with a Mandarin collar, gold earrings, and a generous smile that hid her jet lag. An emotional introduction to Seinabo Sey, at CES of all places 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z She favored pants — whether jodhpurs, stirrups or billowy knickers — over the more traditionally feminine skirt. Mariuccia Mandelli, innovative Italian fashion designer, dies at 90 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In many parts of the Bay Area, the deep philanthropic reach of entrepreneurs, corporations, foundations and impact investment firms feels like a billowy duvet of solidarity and support. Silicon Valley’s New Philanthropy 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Oh my god, sorry, it’s just your billowy top.” Just the one? The misconceptions of the only child | Taylor Glenn 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The ornate, billowy Victorian costumes were also all completely handmade. Inside the lavish visual feast of ‘Crimson Peak’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z After dark, when the wind rustles the palm trees and sugar-cane fields, Bankar draws a simple gray curtain across his front doorway, holding the billowy fabric in place with a slab of plywood. In India, a legend keeps a town nearly door-free 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In court he tops his billowy white boubou, the traditional menswear of west Africa, with aviator sunglasses and an elaborate turban as if shielding himself from desert sands—or from a prosecutor’s questions. Justice at last 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He sent his models out in multicolored hats and billowy dresses adorned with flora and fauna inspired by textile artist Josef Frank. A splash at Hilfiger, a pop art explosion at Jeremy Scott 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Stylized black poodles romp across billowy pink gingham bib dresses, with skirts fashioned from enough material for a crinoline or two underneath. Neo 80, a Melrose fashion rock star in the '80s, pops up in Joshua Tree 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z She has a billowy style, with chunky black glasses and barely tamed black curly hair. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Also, avoid loose, billowy clothing that could get caught in the belt. Treadmill safety starts with common sense 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The tape clicks into the VCR, and there’s Monica in a fat suit and a billowy maroon dress, clutching a sandwich. How 'Fat Monica' on 'Friends' Stuck With Me All These Years 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Cropped sleeve lengths on blazers, billowy blouses with dipped hems in the back and extra long, flowy skirts are meant to be paired back to the more masculine pieces. Emily Current, Meritt Elliott go for greatness with the Great 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z There are many variations, Babb said — "ropy, wrinkled, billowy, slabby, sticky, glassy" — and most all of them are to be found here on the southeast edge of the Big Island. Hawaiian is philosophical about lava after years of going with the flow 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z These good-looking plates are served in a handsome dining room that features light fixtures that bring to mind oversize windblown thistles; a crisscross of billowy white fabric; and along the walls, white banquettes. A Review of A Place 2 Go, in New Rochelle 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Town, the field supervisor, bends over to check the paint on the Seahawks logo, still slightly wet in places, but with plenty of time to dry inside this billowy bubble. Undercover operation gets field ready for Seahawks playoff game 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z He wore the uniform of the Keys — shorts, flip-flop sandals and a billowy white shirt. A Lifesaving Transplant for Coral Reefs 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z In its present state, it lacks the visual excitement of a blob masterpiece like the billowy Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England. George Lucas' museum proposal is needlessly massive 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z On it, she abandons the billowy effects that made her lyrics sound like Gregorian chants. For Zola Jesus, bureaucracy stopped the music. But not for long. Dean transformed the generic space with decomposed granite pathways that lead visitors on a journey through vivid blooms and billowy forms — flowering sages, monkey flowers, yarrows and penstemon, among other native perennials. More California gardeners go native 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Many 3D TVs also struggle to handle motion adequately in 3D video, delivering moving objects with either excessive judder or a weird billowy effect. The Trouble With 3D: How Hollywood And The AV Industry Slaughtered Their Own Cash Cow 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z If there was a unifying theme to the men's collections this season, it was a sense of ease and comfort: billowy sweatshorts, relaxed suit silhouettes, slouchy layering pieces. New York Fashion Week: Optimism and eclecticism are in full bloom 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Because you really were right about those billowy, elastic-waisted jeans I bought at J Crew: it’s not okay to leave the house in pajamas. Lessons for a 21st century girl: it's OK to look gross, like science and be brave. Just don't be a mean girl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z And silhouettes are slimmer, in contrast to Eileen Fisher's typically billowy shapes. Eileen Fisher opens new concept store in L.A. 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z At one point, Ms. Paley accessorizes a white lace dress with a parasol with a billowy white train, good enough for a wedding dress. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The House That Will Not Stand’ in New Haven 2014-05-03T04:15:38Z It bakes up billowy tall, with a distinctly sweet flavor. Wendy’s Kills Its Popular Pretzel Bun—for Brioche? 2013-11-26T20:19:09Z Astronomers believe the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive older stars. Earth Isn't Special After All 2013-11-04T22:35:29Z Out now: a promotional video that shows more billowy fields and mountaintops than actual humans on bikes. At 100, the Tour de France Is Quite Happy to Forget 2013-06-28T03:29:28Z Now I lorded above this billowy sea, along with myriad mountaintops – like VIPs in a secret realm. Walking in the Swiss Alps – in the footsteps of a package holiday pioneer 2013-06-14T20:00:00Z Some Republicans have long insisted that many of the jobless, relaxing in a billowy social safety net, simply aren't trying hard enough to find a job. Today's Economist: Nancy Folbre: A Real Right to Work 2012-12-17T11:00:44Z Inside the giant billowy white tents, the massive klieg lights glare down from the ceiling all night long. Sandy refugees say life in tent city feels like prison 2012-11-10T16:43:41Z If was unclear if Mr. Putin wore the billowy, white costume, or donned the beak. Putin Pulls Off His Latest Feat: Flying With Migratory Birds 2012-09-05T22:16:46Z They comprised three parts: a dark, spiky, fingerlike column of ash, with a grayish-brown ash cloud above, and a nice topping of billowy white steam. Prelude to a Catastrophe: "Pale-blue Flames" 2012-07-07T18:15:00.227Z No more vague “portfolio” hedges, which, like a billowy muumuu, hide a multitude of trading sins. The Hubris of Jamie Dimon 2012-05-17T10:00:45Z It is not all a dead level, a boundless monotony, but is billowy like the sea, with great waves of sand cast up by the wandering winds. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Before it has moved beyond your horizon it may have become a large patch of dark blue with billowy white crests on the top, and underneath hangs a curtain of rain. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Then began a race of the towering, billowy, surging walls of fire for the center. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Immortal Hamilton!—though crumbled deep In the red chaos of that billowy night, It needs no chisel's memory to keep Thy spirit's nobler outline vast and bright! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z It made a path through the length of the heavy black cloud at last and carried its passengers into a misty, billowy bank of white, which seemed as soft and fleecy as a lady's veil. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z "I am afraid, mother dear," said Nancy, leaning her billowy head against her mother's arm and looking up at her new friend with May-morning eyes, "that Mr. Kingsley will think I have no character." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Cochefor�t lies in a billowy land of oak and beech and chestnut--a land of deep, leafy bottoms, and hills clothed with forest. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z In Spring "the blue is all in a rush with richness," and Summer "plashes amid the billowy apple-trees his lusty hands." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The entire interior of the tent was brilliantly lighted by many lamps of a dull yellow metal, swung from under the billowy silken ceiling. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z From Nottingham a winsome way along a smiling vale, with billowy hills swelling upon either hand, conducts us to the village of Hucknall. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z A black and shapeless mass struck against me as I lay suspended in my billowy recess; 'twas all that was left of Rafael. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Sur′gy, full of surges or waves: billowy. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z I would waken the frozen ocean With a billowy burst of joy: Stir the ships at their grim ice-moorings The summer passes by. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The abyss itself is filled with a mist whose billowy surface looks like a great lake. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z So saying, he plunged into the billowy deep. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z I am sick and giddy, as on a billowy sea. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z When round the barque the billowy wave And howling winds, tempestuous, rave, By caution ruled, the helm shall guide Safely, that Argo o'er the tide. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Here a figure emerging from the heavy red-brown shadows of the north aisle, and seeming to bring some of them with it, as it advanced, crossed the billowy pavement, and stopped before them. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z No—be there must beyond the billowy waste Islands, and men, and animals, and trees. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Big and billowy and red-faced, waddling along like a sow. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Even the tablecloths had to evoke Google, which meant no billowy linen, Ms. Pollack said. Google Hones Its Advertising Message, Playing to Emotions 2012-01-01T22:21:48Z And dearly did this sailor captain love his profession; he was never really at home except when afloat on the billowy ocean, when he was as happy as the sea-birds. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z In truth he made one with the vegetation, and it would have been difficult to discern which was corduroy and which cabbage in the billowy expanse of the blue-green field. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z How proud he breasts the foamy tide And spurns the billowy surge aside! The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z The Basket of Roses was the fairest, dearest inn down all that billowy London road. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Then they went on board their ship—for they had Mannanan's canoe no longer—and they sailed forth on the green billowy sea to search for the Island of Fincara. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z Stretches of billowy acres of whiteness Dimming the eyes with their endless expanses; Ridges upstanding in ice walls cemented By glacial pressure of slow-moving masses. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z When on the sands, at dead of night, Dark waves are breaking in their might, While, through the billowy crests, the wild winds roar, Thou art the gull who over all dost soar. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Away to the northwest, over the pine crests of the range, a belt of billowy cloud gleamed snow-white at their summits, but frowned dark and ominous underneath. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z In a dip of the billowy downs, the harebells wave from their fragile stems and ladies' slippers glow with red and orange flames. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Oh! where is the youth or man so bold To dive mid yon billowy din? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z By blue Patapsco’s billowy dash, The tyrant’s war-shout comes, Along with the cymbal’s fitful clash, And the roll of his sullen drums. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z They must cross the billowy tongue of high land up and down lying between the two forks of the great canyon. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Eastward, as far as the eye can reach, the country rolls away in billowy undulations, and—look! there comes a dash of Indians around our right flank. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z The widow's room was billowy with rejected petticoats on which, like sea-wrack, floated garters, stockings, and gloves; while a large constellation of paste gleamed fitfully through the mirk of a Paris net. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z But he, accomplished in Jehovah-being, Sustains the gaze adown, Conceives the vast despair, And feels the billowy griefs come up to drown, Nor fears, nor faints, nor fails, till all be finished. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Oh, we had such fun—we two, in those days!” the girl sighed and looked out over the billowy sea. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The surface of the earth resembles a billowy sea; the crowns of the loftiest palms sweep the reeling earth, and towers and bastions sink down in ruins. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z He glanced at the turquoise plain and the billowy clouds. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z How far ahead down the billowy road he gazed, as if to conjure up the vision of the galloping chariot that held his hope of happiness. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z There was a great billowy heave on the blue sea, blue everywhere, except where the light shadow of some white fleecy cloud made a patch of fleeting grey or grey-green. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z He looked down on the billowy clouds below, that rose and lowered like the tossing of mighty waves in a storm at sea. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z The sun sank out of sight at last, disappearing in a billowy sea of wild-rose clouds. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z He tossed the magazine aside as she came to him and stooping, in a swift birdlike way she had, dropped a kiss on the top of his billowy, grey hair. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z At one instant we were sane humans, trying to make out a great billowy form wallowing in the darkness below. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z Not until they were over the ridge was Mr. Stagg aware that the hollow was filled, chokingly filled, with billowy white smoke. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Above us the ice pinnacles were lost in the clouds, huge billowy masses that were blown in the wind troublously, like the heavy black tresses of some Titan woman. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Dan saw her billowy skirt, her silken 90 hose, her little coral shoes. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Eastward all was clear, while westward, nearly fifteen thousand feet below, the valleys and lowlands were hidden beneath billowy clouds, which, like the mountain tops, soon turned from gray to shining silver. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z “Shamed she plunged into its shroud,” when she was grasped by rough red Pan, the god of all that tract, who had made a billowy wrappage of wool tufts to simulate a cloud. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Day turned into night as the billowy plumes of dust rolled over the mountains and clogged the skies over and around Phoenix in the late afternoon and into the evening on Tuesday, according to meteorologists. Historic dust storm sweeps Arizona, turns day into night 2011-07-06T15:06:42Z Everywhere rolling billowy summits, snowy and hump-like, or rearing up sharp and defined in craggy pinnacles—everywhere they rise—north, south, east, or west, the eye wanders confused over a vast sea of them. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It's just a shame that her inner strength has to be wrapped in a billowy dress. Game, Sex and Match: The Perils of Female Sports Advertising 2011-07-02T06:15:00Z In the fields, the grass is tall and full of flowers, the grain waves like a billowy sea, and the fruit trees bend beneath the weight of rich fruits. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z As he made his way across the broad and billowy common towards the high road, he found himself wondering what Lord Probus was like. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Wasting of old Time—with a billowy main— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z And thus, too, the dancing, billowy current of Life goes flowing on its course from out its source--hidden like the Nile's. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z A horse danced o'er the billowy sea, From him a duck with hoofs did flee. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Miss Manning's favorite anisette had accomplished its mission, and her white head was bowed on the billowy lace fichu that covered her neck. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Much of the rolling prairie inherits its billowy surface from the glaciers. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z All around rose the green billowy hills as far as the eye could reach. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z Beside Lamb's stuttered jests, Hazlitt's incisions, Coleridge's billowy eloquence, Wilde's tapestried speech must be set among the regrettable things of which time has carelessly deprived us. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The strong ligaments of a mother's love serves as a moral anchor to them in the billowy storms of life, even far away from that mother. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The Pfalzgrave stood up by the rudder, And gazed on the billowy foam; 'Rem blem! all my soul's in a shudder, Oh, Cyprus--I travel for home! Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z It is the Keel-fos, formed by a mountain stream that falls two thousand feet into the Navöens Fjord near Gudhaven, but the water becomes a mere billowy bank of mist before it reaches the bottom. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Near at hand, pinnacles of the Tatoosh range were breaking through the clouds like rocky islets in a billowy sea. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z The pond awoke, the water gurgled about the wheel, the tail-race was billowy with foam. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Nothing could be more grand than the views of the billowy mountains with the Mediterranean below. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z By blue Patapsco’s billowy dash, The tyrant’s war-shout comes, Along with the cymbal’s fitful clash, And the growl of his sullen drums. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z Sometimes great, billowy, boisterous, low-lying masses loomed up in our horizon, level along the bottom like islands floating in a sea of space; heaped and puffed and pinnacled in their upper parts. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z So may the stream of Life’s long dream Flow gently onward to its end, With many a floweret gay, Adown its billowy way: May no sigh vex nor care perplex My loving little Friend! Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z She wore a soft, loose robe of black, with billowy gauze-like ruffles, and floating ribbons of the same sable hue, relieved only by a knot of purple wood violets at her throat. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z It was not a waterfall, but an immense mountain torrent, dashing downhill at an angle of twenty-five or thirty degrees, for not less than a mile right before us, like a vast, seething, billowy sea. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The forests at its feet, the jagged outlines of the billowy sea of rocks, and the gigantic proportions of the steep wall rising from them,--all were flooded with snowy lustre. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z To his right lay one of the guest bungalows, and a light, hanging on the veranda, showed a billowy form of large proportions filling an armchair. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z The meadows upon which lay Saint Michael soon looked like an island in the midst of a billowy, swelling sea, the waves of which rose higher each minute. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z The Haute-Savoie is that billowy corner of far-eastern France below Lake Geneva—a kind of neutral, no man's territory hemmed by the huge heights of Switzerland and Italy. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Logs were shooting from the apron of the sluiceway and leaping to the lift of the foaming back-water, like lean hunters taking the billowy top of a wind-tossed hedge. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Around him and below him was naught save ice and snow,--rigid white glaciers riven and billowy but gleaming with fairylike brilliancy. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The doctor puffed his billowy cheeks in disdain, and Finnerty contributed: "Don't underrate these Punjabi wrestlers, my young friend; there are devilish few professionals even who can take a fall out of them." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Pierre rolled beneath the village elms in billowy style, and soon drew up before the white cottage door. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z His room is an expanse and his bed stands in a curtained alcove—the bedstead an antique, the bed billowy, clean, and comfortable, as all beds are in France. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z While Brazilians and honorary Brazilians are still charmingly present at the stadiums, they tend to be swallowed up in the billowy surge of winter gear here in the Southern Hemisphere. Sports of The Times: Fury at the Sounds of South Africa?s World Cup 2010-06-30T23:56:00Z The ride is the most carefully balanced element of its character - pillowy, not billowy response is the order of the day. 2005-12-28T21:40:00Z When viewed through a telescope the sensible horizon of the lake presented a billowy tumultuous appearance, fragments being incessantly detached from it and suspended in the air. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. A maternal sigh escaped her huge billowy bosom. The Undying Past Over the billowy graves the many-footed winds suddenly fled away in a wild, tumultuous cohort. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame It is good to walk around and around the promenade these fine mornings down here, even though the sea keeps billowy and the horizon line lifts and falls with its majestic swing. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise A fragment of verse ran through his mind: “Tawny-flecked, russet-brown, in a tangle of gold, The billowy sweep of her flame-washed hair, Like amber lace, laid fold on fold, Or beaten metal beyond compare.” The Valiants of Virginia The white steps were in tune with the billowy clouds, and the scarlet pillar-box at the corner had a friendly, human smile. Sinister Street, vol. 1 From the hill on which the church stands the little village lies snug like a bead on a chain—the London Road—in a jewel-case of billowy satin: green Ardenshire. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life On they loped over the billowy prairie, the tensity of eagerness growing with each mile covered. Ti-Ti-Pu A Boy of Red River A bright rainbow sat upon a southern cloud; the light gales whispered among the branches, agitated the young harvest to billowy motion, or waved the tops of the distant, deep green forest with majestic grandeur. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The landlady in the billowy blouse was still surveying the scene. A Bed of Roses If we watch a passing railroad train we shall notice a mass of fleecy white mist floating away from the smokestack, assuming the billowy forms of some of the clouds in summer. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. The one exception to the rule of billowy beauty was a slender, even meagrely formed girl, who in America would pass perhaps for seventeen; probably she was three years younger. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Winding among the billowy hills in the middle distance, a wavering double line of aspens marked the course of the Boiling Water. The King of Arcadia On the high hills beyond, the tops of lofty forests, majestically moved by the billowy gales, caught the sun’s last ray. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Dwelling, field, and brook, Dark wood, and flowery garden, and blue lake, And beetling cliff, and noble human forms, All, all had melted into that pale sea Of billowy vapor rolling round my feet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 I remember, you Wore a dress of billowy blue Muslin, or of lawn. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Far other lot befalls the good; A life from trouble free; Nor with laborious hands To vex the stubborn lands, Nor beat the billowy sea For a scanty livelihood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 I had gathered a tiny bunch of heather and fastened it in my belt, and now stood, shading my eyes with my hand, as I looked across the billowy expanse. Windyridge On the high hills beyond, the tops of lofty forests, majestically moved by the billowy gales, caught the sun’s last ray. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The trader sat back again, plying his billowy silk handkerchief. Where the Pavement Ends In contradiction to the fashion of the day the skirts were trained both back and front, they floated round her in a soft billowy cloud, trailing in their wake a little shower of pebbly stones. An Unknown Lover Before lay roll upon roll of billowy verdure, and, on the right, a vast expanse stretching away, blue with distance, to the far skyline. In the Whirl of the Rising Six thousand years in strife have rolled away, Since Erin sprang from billowy surf and spray; In that drear lapse, her sons have never known One ray of peace to gild her crimson zone. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. A heavy fall of snow had occurred in the night, and an unbroken expanse of billowy whiteness spread ont before me, save where, from a corner of the court, some foot-tracks led towards the riding-school. That Boy Of Norcott's He made her his bow, plying a broad straw hat and a billowy handkerchief of tussore silk. Where the Pavement Ends With the boulders frozen into its lower surface it scratched and grooved the firm bedrock over which it slid, and rounded it to a smooth and billowy surface. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The far winding of the Tugela shone here and there through the billowy undulations of the same, and above, a gleam of silver where Umzinyati’s waters babbled on to join it. A Frontier Mystery Forest and open country lay spread out beneath, extending away in billowy roll for miles upon miles into dim, misty distance. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion The period in which Margaret now found herself, and its circumstances, may best be described by the adjective "billowy." Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) One day when Koot and the dog were skimming across the billowy drifts, something black far ahead bounced up, caught a bunting on the wing, and with another bounce disappeared among the trees. The Story of the Trapper A psychological history of the uneven progress of that billowy retreat would be as far beyond my reach as of the ten minutes of outset trial. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Oh! no, There is an island; with its chalky cliffs, Beauteous it rises from the billowy waste. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 I painted her as Iris, seated on some clouds, with a billowy scarf about her. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun The renovated ditches were glistening bank full with their life-giving floods; the alfalfa and grain fields, now properly kept and irrigated, were billowy seas of emerald fore-promise; everything betokened activity and thrift. The Song of the Wolf Your tides, like the tidal generations, ever shall rise and fall, And your infinite waves find birth, rebirth, and billowy dissolution. Sea Poems Her wardrobe was barren of the costly afternoon gowns smart women affect, but she put on an organdie, billowy with many ruffles, that consorted with the season, at least. Ancestors A Novel There were billowy puffs of clouds high above, softly flushing into rose with a golden fleeciness to their edges. The House of Fulfilment With eager eyes they scanned the landscape of billowy mountains and hills to the east and south. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign Overhead the sun was herding his cloud flocks to their fold in the brassy west, wearily dipping out of sight momentarily amidst their billowy fleeces. The Song of the Wolf And alone with his lonely soul, There sits a man on the cold strand And turns his death-cold glances Towards the vast, death-cold vault of heaven, And toward the vast, billowy sea. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine Yea—verily; but so broad here is its bosom, and so far spreads the billowy brightness, that we might almost believe that our bark was bounding over the ocean, and marching merrily on the main. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) From every gentle swell the landscape swept away to the vanishing line of distances in billowy seas of green and gold, while far overhead arched the deep-blue skies of May. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The lady of the harum—couched gracefully on a rich Persian carpet strewn with soft billowy cushions—is as rich a picture as admiration ever gazed on. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century In the south-west other peaks receded, billowy and blue. Cudjo's Cave Meanwhile the ship wrestles With the wild billowy tide. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine To Fillmore Flagg it seemed a long time that Fern Fenwick had been sitting so quietly, apparently absorbed in admiring the billowy miles of landscape unrolled so far to the southward. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century The Kiowas and Comanches frequently lay in wait among the billowy sand-hills. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters Cloud shadows racing across billowy uplands, and sagebrush nodding in a breeze crisp and electric as only a breeze from our upper Western plateau can be. Mystery Ranch It was late May and the prairies were billowy with soft waving grasses and gaily tinted with myriads of wild flowers. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John His beard was wiry, hoary gray, through whose billowy depth a long black cigar struck from clenched teeth. The Missourian You may commence at once your life on the billowy wave! Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Rolling plain Of billowy green, Fair horizons, Blue, serene. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Toward heaven, my Father’s home, I steer, Tossed on the billowy flood: A man that hath no purpose here Save seeking for his God. Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English All the rest of the pool is full of strange billowy cloudlike growths, like cotton-wool or clotted honey, all reddened with the iron of the spring; for it rusts on thus coming to the air. The Thread of Gold He smiled; he moved the billowy folds of my dress with infinite reverence, and seated himself timidly beside me. Phemie Frost's Experiences Again we flew through the billowy ether, sweeping past system after system with intoxicating speed, until at last, dazed and almost unconscious, I regained this earthly shore. Arrows of Freethought I had to chance that I would not be seen now crossing this billowy expanse. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 And I'll bear it away on my lonely breast, As a charm 'mid earth's stormy strife, An amulet, worn to give me rest, On the billowy waves of life. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 Many feet and hands pushed the boat from the side of the ship and we sagged down again, this time smacking squarely on the billowy top of a rising swell. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Only overhead a few billowy clouds, the soft rush of the wind, a slight flush in the east, it was almost dawn. The Harbor There's a vast, billowy sort of a cloud. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 A billowy sea of white stretched out to a blue infinity. Love and Lucy With a sick, frantic rage he felt his clenched fist drive against cold, green, billowy bodies. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The coast turns westward here, and no cliff breaks that line of billowy sand; northward and southward it goes, with the rhythmic monotony of the sea. Audrey Craven And in that sparkling morning light, with billowy waves of sea green all around us, sudden snowy clouds of spray, we watched for a moment the skyscraper group, the homes of the Big Companies. The Harbor Hilda felt the ground grow billowy; the day seemed supernaturally bright. Melomaniacs A beam like that of moonlight turns the spray To glistening pearls; two lovers, hand in hand, Rise on the billowy swell and fondly look Into each other's eyes. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Back, away into the mountains in billowy rolls it extended, until the whole distance was lost in a blackness as of night. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills The wind by compass, N. E., and rolling away a billowy ocean of mist, toward, I suppose, the Bay of Honduras. Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the Possession of two Remarkable Aztec Children, Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country, Described by John L. Stevens, Esq., and Other Travellers. The old highroad, which is now much less frequented than formerly, is very fair as far as Ramleh; and beyond that it is still navigable for vehicles, though somewhat broken and billowy. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Even in the spots where some had withstood its force the ground was strewn with split and broken branches, to lee of which the snow had gathered in billowy drifts. Blake's Burden The fog, far below, covering the sea as far as vision reached, looked like an immense broken billowy ice field, or millions of big powder puffs jammed together in an immense plain. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight Ribbons of mist, weaving in and out above the stream, clothed the alders in ghostly silver and rested in billowy masses upon the marshes. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' There stood the pretty figure of Rachel Varnhagen, dressed in billowy muslin, a picture hat which was adorned with the brightest of ribbons and artificial flowers, and the daintiest of shoes. The Tale of Timber Town “Garden without path or fence, Rolling up its billowy blooms.” The Cabin on the Prairie In the darkest one stood an old four-post bed with a billowy feather mattress, covered by a tartan quilt. The Silver Maple Then, stopping to give a last despairing look at the billowy line of prairie over which his horse had disappeared, he started to run through the woods. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies The ever-mutable multitude at last Will hail the power they did not comprehend— Thy fame will broaden through the centuries; As, storm and billowy tumult overpast, The moon rules calmly o'er the conquered seas. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul It is rough and billowy, like the surface of a storm-tossed sea. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language There the precipitous rocks rose sheer a hundred feet from the bottom, and at the bottom, down below her, a narrow strip of beach was bordered with the billowy crest and foam of the sea. Say and Seal, Volume II Both were expensively dressed, though not tastefully; and this second woman was as billowy and as generously proportioned as the one behind the wheel was lean. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Launching our little fleet of canoes, three in number, on the billowy surface of the lake, we started for our first objective, Lake Itasca. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier Place it to the ear, and you shall catch, as if in the far distance, the reverberating roll of the billowy ocean as it sings a mighty song. Music and Some Highly Musical People Thereafter came billowy times when communications were interrupted, but an auspicious opportunity has now arrived when it has pleased us again to address you. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Great peaks, some snow-capped, towered aloft—and far away beneath stretched a billowy expanse of country, dim, misty in the moonlight. The Sign of the Spider She washed the dishes and put them away; tripped upstairs and kneaded the billowy feather beds into smoothness; and humming happily, she swept and polished the house until it shone. The Wall Between But the little animal remained otherwise motionless and continued to study the odd billowy motions of the brown hand with that eager wonder-bright eye. The Orchard of Tears The endless rice-fields, and the fields of sugar-cane that stretch for miles like a billowy sea, make a railway journey by day a constant source of delight. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions I approached the mausoleum very warily; a soft west wind was blowing, the night was quiet with alternate swathes of darkness and light as billowy clouds took the moon by storm and passed beyond her. Border Ghost Stories Lady O'Gara came on the two girls one day at work on a pink billowy stuff, which was evidently going to be an evening-frock. Love of Brothers Let's you and me steal forth under the billowy blue caliber of Heaven and make hay while the haymakers are good. Sundry Accounts From out life's billowy sea,— A wave of welcome birth,— The Life that lives in Thee! Poems From among the billowy developments of this style, and beneath a translucent and illuminated headdress, his eye watched jealously for the respect of the less fashionable world. Tales of Space and Time White billowy mists of most delicate softness imperceptibly form themselves in the valley depths and float up the mountain-sides. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty A few rugs, a small but billowy bed, a chair and 75 a table comprised the furnishings, but an open door disclosed a bathroom and beyond that a dressing room most adequately equipped. Penny of Top Hill Trail It rose, a shapeless mound of white, from the wilderness that rolled away in billowy rises, shining under the sunlight that had no warmth in it. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter The sun had set, but was still reflected on the heaps of billowy gray clouds just above the horizon. The Wind Before the Dawn Here when a child I used to lie For hours, and watch the clouds go by, See the black shadows climb the mountain Or safely ride o'er the billowy rye. Song-waves Our wide-winged bark Shall billowy cleave its sunny way, And with its shadow, fleet and dark, Break the caved Tritons’ azure day, Like mighty eagle soaring light O’er antelopes on Alpine height. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature He had to stand in the place of guilty sinners and all the waves and billowy of divine judgment and wrath had to pass over Him. The Work Of Christ Past, Present and Future It had been a hot morning, and billowy clouds began to rise in the still heat on the verge of the sky. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin No other English writer has painted such fascinating and colorful word-pictures of Dartmoor's heaths and hills, woods and vales, and billowy plains of pallid yellow and dim green. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Out of the pale they all lie in the boundless billowy waters; thus the Odyssey in this part becomes a sea poem, while in the other two parts it is essentially a land poem. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Muslin curtains tied with blue ribbons covered the windows with billowy folds. The Son of Monte-Cristo Every hour in the day he indulges in his circling, billowy flight. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs "He smiled and showed he loved Hay-uta,—who sees him again," added the dying warrior, turning his gaze toward the billowy clouds, tinted with gold in the rays of the declining sun. Footprints in the Forest It was green, billowy forest in every direction. Camp-fire and Wigwam In Romantic Ballads it reads: Abandon, abandon, thy headlong career— But downward thou rushest—my words are in vain, Bethink thee that oft-changing winds domineer On the billowy breast of the time-serving main. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow That was the scene, I knew it well; I knew the turfy pathway's sweep, That, winding o'er each billowy swell, Marked out the tracks of wandering sheep. Emily Brontë Meadows, orchards, bending sprays, Rushes, lilies, billowy wheat, Song and frolic fill his days, A feathered rondeau all complete. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Look how it stands there gaunt and tawdry against these fresh green meadows edged round with billowy white clouds that herald summer. Little Lost Sister A little to one side, beyond the corn-field and over a billowy mass of silvered leafage, stood the gray, clustered roofs of a backwoods farmstead. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The cloud broke in two dark, billowy masses, and red sunset, like a sea, spread over the prairie, the light heightening amid glimmerings of pearly rain. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Madaline "tried on" Circe, all swathed up in a billowy white mosquito netting, that might never again be used as a bed canopy. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening It thickened as it rose, and began to roll in billowy volumes towards his camp. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Then away went the wind in its holiday glee, And now it was far on the billowy sea, And the lordly ships felt its staggering blow, And the little boats darted to and fro. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes I was graciously received in a large, lighted chamber, where Hotep reclined lazily upon a billowy heap of downy cushions, surrounded by many women. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner At midday a billowy cloud of smoke began to wall the eastern horizon, and it slowly rolled forward, driven by the current of the air. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk There comes a gleam on the billowy moat Like a death-light on its wave, It streams from the ivied lattice, where Sits a grim false-hearted knave. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 When that azure blue became an ocean, with ships of the air scudding in and out of cloudy coves, around billowy headlands, "zuming," spiraling, volplaning, maneuvering for position to hurl broadsides of death. The Greater Love More near he saw, and still more near, The scorn that filled his soul with fear, On trouble's billowy ocean tossed, Like one whose shattered bark is lost. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The old flag unfurled in a billowy thrill For an instant, then wistfully sighed and was still. America First Patriotic Readings The pupils went to the verge of the trees, and watched the billowy columns of smoke in the distance. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk And blithesome sang among the growing grain That brake in billowy waves about her feet. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Some, lying prone, are dreamily observing the blue sky showing here and there through billowy clouds. The Greater Love "Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold." The Community Cook Book Floyd is down on the porch, reading and smoking, when the flutter of a diaphanous robe, with billowy laces, attracts his eyes and he smiles an invitation. Floyd Grandon's Honor The red light on the horizon and billowy clouds of smoke intensified the darkness. Land of the Burnt Thigh They loos’d the bag; forth issued all the winds, And, caught by tempests o’er the billowy waste, Weeping they flew, far, far from Ithaca. The Odyssey of Homer Lady, sweet lady, I behold thee yet, With thy pale brow, brown eyes, and solemn air, And billowy tresses of thy golden hair, Which once to see, is never to forget! Poems They sat down on the ledge of rock which formed their cave-house and gazed over the marvellous panorama of a world transformed into blue billowy mountains, flying clouds and turquoise skies. The Root of Evil It is more like floating with the current of some gentle stream, than making way across the broad billowy bosom of the Atlantic. Ran Away to Sea In the early morning, when the clouds still hover in the valleys, one seems to gaze upon a white billowy sea studded with rocky islets. Birds of the Indian Hills So saying, he plunged into the billowy Deep. The Odyssey of Homer We stood in a billowy meadow, with the pale gray-green of the stacked oats dimly silvered by the baby moon, that was hurrying down the west after the sun. Lady Betty Across the Water “Or kangaroo?” cried Rifle, excitedly, as they reached the top of one of the billowy waves of land which swept across the great plain. The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range And the great ships sail outward, and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells; And ever joyful as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands The spray flew over them, and it seemed that every billowy wave would overwhelm the frail bark. The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean So saying, she plunged into the billowy waste. The Odyssey of Homer The billowy land was green in the morning as paradise, and Emeline thought every day its lights and shadows were more beautiful than the day before. The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 December found them still slowly advancing over the billowy sand, deeply impressed and horrified at the number of slave skeletons that lay about the wind-swept desert. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole These presents lay piled up in comical shapes all round her, and helped to form some of the billowy clouds on which she was supposed to be resting. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World On mountain-tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest-tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be! The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children There is an isle Amid the billowy flood, Pharos by name, In front of Ægypt, distant from her shore Far as a vessel by a sprightly gale Impell’d, may push her voyage in a day. The Odyssey of Homer The hanging mass of cloud beams with answering smile upon its earthward face as gold and crimson and royal purple mantle the billowy cheeks. A War-Time Wooing A Story I had to chance that I wouldn't be seen while crossing this billowy expanse. Beyond the Vanishing Point The rest was darkness and billowy stripes of water. Erik Dorn You can see now," he continued, "how the thunder heads of cumulo-nimbus are beginning to show, leaden in color below, with the white billowy tops. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Remote, amid the billowy Deep, we hold Our dwelling, utmost of all human-kind, And free from mixture with a foreign race. The Odyssey of Homer But the surface was nowhere visible and Mado adjusted the focus so that the view of the billowy cloud-covering fell rapidly away. Creatures of Vibration Above us is a billowy canopy of fire soaring upward with a vast crackling roar. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The notes of freedom came careering to them across the red, billowy waves of battle and thrilled their souls with ecstatic peace. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens When Uncle Si and his cohort got through with them they were as billowy as the surface of the ocean. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice So saying, he plunged into the billowy waste, I then, with my brave comrades to the fleet Return’d, deep-musing as I went, and sad. The Odyssey of Homer The broad and billowy summits of yon monstrous trees, one would imagine, were made for the storms to rest upon when they are tired of raving. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection To the west it was bordered with vast, billowy clouds of the softest, snowy white. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America Then they saw that it was a cloud, black, sullen-looking—great masses of vapor heaped in billowy folds, blackening the slopes with shadow, and barely touched above with silver-gilt. The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Split did not look at either, though they shone, the one like a billowy moonlit sea, the other like a lake of silver, because of the snow that covered them. The Madigans High points of land lay around us on three sides, while across the bay soft billowy clouds completed an enchanting circle from the spell of which none of us wished ever to escape. An Epoch in History It hung from her shoulders in billowy folds, and the wearer was evidently proud of it, for she continually switched its draperies about and gazed admiringly at them. Patty Blossom Miss Upton's regimentals consisted of ample and billowy apron effects over a short petticoat. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date The Right and Real was born from the Lighted Heat; from thence was born Night, and thence the billowy sea. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge The smoke rose in a billowy mass, vanishing in the dark, cool shadows of the oaks above. Short Stories of Various Types They saw great masses of fleecy water vapor, huge billowy things that seemed solid, but were blown lightly in the wind. The Black Star Passes Patty's cap was askew on her hastily knotted-up curls, and she gathered about her the voluminous folds of a billowy, blue silk affair, that was her latest acquisition in the way of négligées. Patty Blossom Mrs. Barry had the sewing machine moved into the living-room where there was plenty of space for the billowy white stuff, and they began their measuring. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date There is a hypnotism of form: a rugged peak will alarm the mind where a billowy green undulation will lull it. Highways and Byways in Sussex Some sizable old girl, Ma Gummidge; one of39 these bulgy, billowy females with two chins and a lot of brownish hair. Torchy As A Pa To the left was a huge billowy female decorated generous with pearl ropes and ear pendants. Torchy and Vee On and on she sped across the billowy waters. Stories of Birds As soon as I reached my chamber, I threw myself on my bed, which seemed to roll beneath me with a billowy motion. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The meadow grass, swaying off to the forest margin in billowy ripples, was already knee-high. Lords of the North Even speech has a living grace and power, by the play of the voice and eye, and by the billowy flushes of the countenance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Jake pries himself loose from the billowy embrace and advances sheepish. Torchy and Vee Overhead billowy white clouds rolled and piled in the sapphire blue of the sky. Orrain A Romance "I'd have a little habitation, hidden down among the rocks, where I could sit by a cosey fire and listen to the billowy blasts that swept over my home in the clouds." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems At the western end of the island, where boats sheer out into mid-current, came the dull, heavy roar of the cataract and above the north shore rose great, billowy clouds of foam. Lords of the North I think its billowy landscapes were festooned with tangling creepers, bright with perennial bloom, and curtained with sweet-scented groves, where the orange and the pomegranate hung like golden globes and ruddy moons. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The steam from the air-compressing engine, furnishing the necessary motive power for the drills that still worked in the hills, curled upward in billowy, rainbow-like coloring. The Cross-Cut Just how the feathery and billowy nights of our 48great-grandparents were changed into the present is too deep for explanation. Journeys to Bagdad Indeed, these clouds resembled a billowy ocean of white foam in themselves, or a landscape covered with hills and valleys of snow. Around the World in Ten Days Morning revealed an ocean of billowy drifts, crusted over by the frozen sleet and reflecting a white dazzle that made one's eyes blink. Lords of the North The lady did not answer, but walked slowly after the young man, shaking out her billowy skirts. While Caroline Was Growing The great plain beneath us was marked off like a chessboard in squares of various shades of yellow and green, dotted here and there with little villages surrounded by the billowy crests of trees. The Great War As I Saw It Graciella's billowy white gown added a needed touch of maturity to her slender youthfulness. The Colonel's Dream His shirt was ragged and dirty, and had fallen completely away from one arm and shoulder, and the billowy muscles glistened in the sun. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Tying on snow-shoes after the manner of the natives, I would speed over the whitened drifts of billowy snow. Lords of the North Three days later, and the miracle so long in preparation was accomplished; the slowly rising tide of life had broken into a foam of blossoms and buried the world in a billowy sea. Under the Trees and Elsewhere Taking first the seeds of all things—launched he forth upon the sea; On the billowy sea, the prudent—in a beauteous vessel rode. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems Great white billowy clouds of smoke at once issued forth, rising straight skyward. The North American Indian Angela as before had just shaken loose her wealth of billowy tresses and was carefully brushing them. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier It was a joy to his now vandal soul, this grove, and already he could see those majestic trunks, after having been sawed with as little wasteful chopping as possible, toppling in endless billowy furrows. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story Rogers ascribes them to billowy pulsations in the molten matter upon which the flexible crust of the earth floats. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America With immense fuss the archduke disposed himself in the back of the tonneau which he filled with billowy curves. The Terrible Twins The first, as o'er the billowy deep he passed, Blew from its brazen trump a far-resounding blast. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan No awning was spread over the square, this evening, and every eye beheld the ascent of the resurrected saints, a wondrous cloud seeming to upbear them upon its billowy whiteness. The Mark of the Beast A picture came into the maiden's eye: a broad and fertile plain, tender verdure, soft blue sky overhead, with white billowy clouds nearing the horizon like great airy, snow-capped mountains. Violets and Other Tales It blew out of the canyon-mouth like a gust from a chimney, rolling over and over in billowy masses. Raw Gold A Novel They were both agreed that no consideration was owing to the billowy archduke. The Terrible Twins Then foamed the billowy desert wide, 200 And all that breathed—they died, Sunk in the rolling waters: such the crime And violence of earth. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan We passed the mount for two hours through a forest of dwarf trees; the country still billowy, as it were. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The avenues and trees stood up like walls, but living walls; and in places their billowy bulges seemed about to burst upon us like Cape-rollers. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative We who have followed o'er the billowy brine Thee and thine arms, since Ilion sank in flame, Will raise thy children to the stars, and name Thy walls imperial. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Swift to her warm waiting breast Longing to be possessed Leaps 'neath his billowy crest Her Lover brave. A Woman's Love Letters In vain they climbed the rocky heights: I struck The adamantine mountains, and like dust They crumbled in the billowy foam. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan The birds, as they skimmed over this billowy expanse, appeared blown, despite their efforts, on the wind that swept in gusts out of the west. The Miller Of Old Church Slowly the white mist rolled from it, a billowy, ghostly thing, that left a black, vague world, only dimly seen. The Good Comrade Neptune plies amain His trident-lever, lays the sandbanks low, 172 On light wheels shaves the deep, and calms the billowy flow. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor I was quick to reply; for had found relief in action, and could perceive already that the clouds were becoming shapeless and drifting rapidly southward in a great billowy mass. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country Stern Father of the storm! who dost abide Amid the solitude of the vast deep, For ever listening to the sullen tide, And whirlwinds that the billowy desert sweep! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan But the blazonry fades as the clouds mount; and the brightening lines of the lightning dart up from the lower skirts, and heave the billowy masses into the middle heaven. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Faint and more feint the billowy roar became, And sunk, and died at last.—With lessening flame The starry host along th' ethereal way, Unknown the cause, successive die away. Gustavus Vasa and other poems The plains of Canada, the forests of Maine, the mountains of New York, and I really believe the sea, if I mistake not that faint blue line in the far distance over the billowy land! The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 So Mary remained at Windsor and grieved and wept and dreamed, and longed that she might see across the miles of billowy ocean to her love! her love! her love! When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth They wheeled their horses, sending them into the billowy white smother that was now coming in a gigantic wave toward them. The Trail Horde Among the lost were his sister and her husband, who now slept quietly beneath the billowy surf of the Atlantic. Tempest and Sunshine Mary nearly smothered him in a billowy hug as he was trying to thank them for their goodness. In the Roaring Fifties Yes," said Drogo, "but it is not like the view from my uncle's castle in the Andredsweald, over a far wilder forest than this of Arden, with the great billowy downs for a southern bulwark. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars There Ajax sat, And felt the shock, and with the falling mass Was carried headlong to the billowy depths Below, and drank the brine and perished there. The Story of Troy Over the billowy grain, cloud shadows chase each other as if in play. The Harris-Ingram Experiment The vision of the infant made her seem A flower unfolding in mysterious bliss; Or, billowy with her joyful tears, a stream; Or pure affection, perfect in a kiss. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Their aspirations and triumphs, their prejudices and blunders, were the billowy forces which shaped the shoreland of the story and made history. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria And, droll to relate, I'm writing this in bed, with a touch of flu—such a bed, too, all soft and billowy. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front E'en Newport is dull and deserted— Its billowy beaches no more Made bright with sweet, ocean-kissed faces, Love's beacon lights set on the shore. Point Lace and Diamonds They hunted and they hunted; they turned Thrudheim upside down, and set the clouds to rolling wonderfully, as they peeped and pried behind and around and under each billowy mass. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People He gives his billowy lips to many a river That into his embrace with passion slips, Lover of many wives, a generous giver Of kisses, yet demanding eager lips. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Troubled and billowy waters reflect nothing distinctly on their surface; it is the still, deep, placid element that gives back the images by which it is surrounded or that pass over its surface. Records of a Girlhood The broker turned and looked down at the smooth head with billowy ribbon bows behind the ears. Jewel's Story Book Trenholme followed him, and they went across acres of billowy snow. What Necessity Knows He glanced at the river below, threading its way through the pasture land; at the billowy masses of trees; at the gay parterre, bright with summer flowers. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Away off swelled billowy tops of hills, one behind another, making you feel how big the world was. The Other Girls And all Nature's deep intonings, Merry songs, and plaintive meanings, Floated softly through my spirit, swelling where those bright waves stole, Till the prisoning walls seemed powerless 'gainst that billowy rush and roll. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Where the wheat waved, now the hillsides are billowy with graves. The Art of Public Speaking The resemblance to the successively retreating ramparts of a mountain is almost perfect, and it is heightened by the billowy masses of cloud which roll between the crags and give the effect of perspective. Thought-Forms One represented a gilded boat containing pretty girls; it was arranged to seem to rise and fall upon a billowy sea. In Indian Mexico (1908) By and by this vast sheet of mist began to thicken toward the horizon and to roll forward in billowy volumes. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars Beneath us are the undulations of billowy green foliage, calm and cool, intersected with carriage-roads, and showing yonder the white stones of the soldiers' and citizens' graves. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Here and there loomed stretches of woodland that shimmered in the breeze like a billowy sea of gold. Jerusalem On mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be! New National Fourth Reader It looked like a billowy sea of cotton-wool, but the airmen who had just emerged from it, had no comfort in its soft embrace. Round the World in Seven Days Her hair was all unbound for the night—her black, wondrous hair which he so loved—and from its billowy cloud her face looked at him wild and white, her mouth quivering. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The stars showed him empty spaces of billowy sand; there were black spots marking hollows and nowhere his horse. The Desert Valley Meanwhile the French host had reached Parma, traversing, all through the golden autumn weather, those plains where mulberry and elm are married by festoons of vines above a billowy expanse of maize and corn. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Then away went the wind in its holiday glee, And now it was far on the billowy sea; And the lordly ships felt its powerful blow, And the little boats darted to and fro. New National Fourth Reader He sobbed and he sighed, and a gurgle he gave, Then he threw himself into the billowy wave, And an echo arose from the suicide's grave— "Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!" Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs The heavier thud they would have made was deadened by the billowy mass of the édredon. The Man with the Clubfoot The wind was high, the storm grew loud, Fierce rose the billowy sea; When from Sir Bertine's lordly tower The bell boomed heavily! Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 My mattress was straw and billowy, the bed sheetless, and under the weight of the cotton comforter I tried to compose myself. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls |
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