| 单词 | wavelet |
| 例句 | This time they found themselves on a long white shore, with wavelets lapping and curling against it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z As the breeze freshened, small ripples became wavelets; the wavelets grew into swells. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A little, rubbishy wavelet, full of candy wrappers and orange peel and seaweed, folded over my foot. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The water glistened through the trees, and she could hear the wavelets of a passing river skimmer’s wake slapping at the shore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Against the khaki-colored sand and the green shore wavelets, his body was bisected for a moment, like a white worm. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The wavelets broke across our feet, and he was in the mud at my side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The water surged past my swaying frame, and I sought to remain tall as the wavelets teased me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It seemed to stretch off endlessly, in shallow blue wavelets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The lagoon’s bottle-green surface remained relatively placid as wavelets hit the gondola’s glossy hull with lulling slaps. In Venice, a Young Boatman Steers a Course of His Own 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Then the image cuts to the ocean surface, where gentle wavelets belie the turbulence below. ‘God’s Creatures’ Review: A Crisis of Conscience 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z At the water’s edge, she let the wavelets draw her forward and away. At a South Florida hospital, heroes for the half-shell 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z All of them swirl together in “Intensity,” which begins with one of her sustained, rippling vocal chorales and works its way up, in gathering wavelets, toward something like funk and then melts back into reflection. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z One wavelet of Internet tributes paid to Mr. Bowie after his death on Sunday recalled a trip he took to a hotel room, in 1983, to pick a bone with MTV. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z June 23, 2010, 1:38 pm Drake Tops Charts With impressive sales of his debut album, the rapper Drake leads a wavelet of new releases on the Billboard album chart. Drake Tops Charts 2010-06-23T17:38:00Z The broken clock tower which once stood on the jetty floats in the river, shattering the water into innumerable wavelets as it rocks and sways. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z Topol described the recent increase in transmission as a “wavelet” that could pick up steam but is more likely related to waning immunity and behavior than the latest subvariants. With coronavirus on the upswing in California, new vaccine coming sooner than expected 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z How does the summer “wavelet” speak to the virus’s seasonality, which many experts are trying to pin down? Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer? 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z It drove twigs, dust and street debris before it, created wavelets on the Potomac River, and with a low hum and hiss, rewarded attempts to wield the garden hose with a face full of spray. Saturday upheld reputation of a month known for wind 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z If women’s lib is commonly thought to have progressed in successive wavelets over the better part of a century, “After Sappho” wants to rewrite that linear story into a swirl — not waves but eddies. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet even a president dramatically more disapproved than approved, and who a majority of his party wishes would not seek another term, did not provoke even a red wavelet. Opinion | Election results should move both parties to introspection. Journalists, too. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The wave, however, turned out to be more of a wavelet. Donald Trump and US midterms: How bad was his night? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “I think that whether or not we have a summer wavelet, at least we should be prepared to do some preventative activities in the fall,” she says. Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer? 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z All of that has boosted Democratic hopes that November will bring something more akin to a red wavelet than a tsunami. Column: Here's why the House is likely to flip while the Senate remains up in the air 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z As the wavefront strikes the mirror, wavelets are first emitted from the left part of the mirror and then the right. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The physicality of collecting data becomes evident when a strong south wind slaps our faces as we turn the boats toward the launch against an army of wavelets. A kayaking scientist maps the impacts of climate change on Puget Sound waterways 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Satellite imagery captured “gravity waves” rippling outward from where the plume punctured this ceiling-like layer in the lower atmosphere — like wavelets surrounding a stone tossed in a pond. How the Tonga volcano generated a shock wave around the world 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Pay attention to hip muscles and adjust to stabilize for the tilt of the sand and the tiny push of an arriving wavelet. How My Desire to Run Again Pushed Me to Walk 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z After processing the visual information using wavelets, Daubechies and her team deployed a deep neural network algorithm — typically used for facial recognition — to separate the content of the X-rays. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Each wavelet in the figure was emitted when the wavefront crossed the interface between the media. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z In the future, however, the waves may be smaller — what Balloux dubs “wavelets.” Unraveling the mystery of Europe’s uneven covid surges Now they’re just occasional wavelets, even if some do jump around. There was Big Ten football in Wisconsin, but the streets weren’t jumping as usual 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The much-feared “second wave” of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country. As States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z With Grossmann’s encouragement, she had waded into wavelets the year before. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The new wavefront is a line tangent to all of the wavelets. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z She exerted different degrees of pressure for the darker wavelets and the lighter areas between them. Vija Celmins’s Surface Matters 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z In the expected place of wavelets is a blue so calm and unbroken that the sea doesn’t so much crash on the land as neatly abut it. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z “It’s a vast ocean of energy for which individual wavelets such as us are ephemeral, passing phenomena.” Review | A journey through billions of years that nails home the point: Life is a miracle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z By February 1987, she constructed the foundation for what grew into a “family” of Daubechies wavelets, each suited to a slightly different task. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The new wavefront is a line tangent to the wavelets and is where we would expect the wave to be a time t later. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Among the scientists who benefited is Ingrid Daubechies, an applied mathematician, who in the 1980s helped to develop the theory of wavelets, which generalized Fourier analysis and opened up previously inaccessible problems. Fourier’s transformational thinking 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z After groundbreaking work — dubbed the wavelet revolution — spearheaded by Meyer in the 1980s, textbooks in many disciplines had to be radically rewritten, Morel says. ‘Wavelet revolution’ pioneer scoops top maths award 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Other works bring a new painterly liberty to her signature realist imagery, commonly done in pencil or woodcut, of choppy seas in which every wavelet can seem to have sat for its portrait. The Beautiful and the Unexpected 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z “The Daubechies wavelets are smooth, well balanced, not too spread out and easy to implement on a computer,” Terence Tao, a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, says. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The new wavefront is a line tangent to the wavelets. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z That triggered a wavelet of local opposition, which culminated in the board’s decision to deny the permit in April, on a 4-to-3 vote before a chamber of cheering citizens. In Virginia, county bigwigs cry ‘sewage’ to block a mosque 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A colleague was copying a paper on Morlet’s wavelets, and the two struck up a conversation. ‘Wavelet revolution’ pioneer scoops top maths award 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z To be sure, these prisoners have no bearing on the current crime wavelet. U.S. judge pauses at cutting sentence of D.C. drug lord’s associate 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In part, wavelets proved revolutionary because they are so mathematically deep. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The wavelets closer to the left have had time to travel farther, producing a wavefront traveling in the direction shown. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z A storm out at sea churns the surface, creating chop—smaller and then larger wavelets, which amalgamate, with enough wind, into heavy seas. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z To maximize macroscopic nonlinear signals, the wavelets emitted by the elementary nonlinear sources need to add up in phase. [Perspective] Freeing Nonlinear Optics from Phase Matching 2013-12-05T18:56:18.987Z Halfway up the ice became as clear as a windshield, and beneath it I could see water flowing in wavelets over rock features. The Deadly Allure of Solo Climbing 2012-07-15T04:00:00Z Daubechies is most famous as a pioneer of wavelets, but more broadly, her scientific contributions over the last three decades have rippled out in all directions from the field of “signal processing.” The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The wavelets shown were emitted as each point on the wavefront struck the mirror. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Raymond ordered, pointing to a litter of handbills where the wavelets lapped the marge of seaweed. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Tatters of sunlight, reflected from the wavelets of the river obliquely up underneath the hickory boughs, flickered on the ceiling and walls of the hut. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z They had gradually rounded the opening to a little bay where the water seemed more shallow, and the sea only broke in tiny wavelets upon a small shelf of pearly white sand. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z The telltale signs of wavelets that Daubechies spotted were on the field, pixelating at larger scales, producing a fuzzy patchwork of green. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The tangent to these wavelets shows that the new wavefront has been reflected at an angle equal to the incident angle. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The waters were colorless, and were licked into fretful wavelets, on which the delicate pointed caiques swayed like leaves on a tide. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z There was no moon, the stars were bright, the wavelets softly lapped the stones, and we felt placid and restful until quite suddenly we became aware that we were hungry. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z A mild west wind enlivened the surface of the lake with the sparkle of innumerable wavelets, and all that had for days been lead seemed turned to silver. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Her work, together with further wavelet developments, was instrumental to the invention of image-compression algorithms, like the JPEG2000, that pervade the digital age. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The ray bends toward the perpendicular, since the wavelets have a lower speed in the second medium. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The bones, mixed with crumbling débris of the rotten cliff, were being washed by muddy wavelets a hundred feet below the perilous verge of the cliff, a grisly and a saddening sight. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z From this setting of emerald foliage it scintillates like a gem: its wavelets lave a narrow pebbly shore within which a bottom of pure white sand gleams upward through the most transparent water ever seen. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z The sea is one crimson steaming fire; Each fanged wavelet Flickers and dances about the one behind it, Hungrily licking at the ship. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Calderbank’s amused indifference to the grassy pixelations nicely illustrates the power of wavelets: They find the action in an image, the important content. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The tall grass of the rich marshy pastures rippled in the breeze in wavelets of a steely sheen. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Scientists tell us that each wavelet of sound, produced by the tiniest cause, goes on in ever-widening circles of ether, to the uttermost limits of creation. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z The sparkling wavelets of the river ran brawling at our feet, fighting their way among the sharp rocks that opposed a barrier to their downward course. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z The wind whipped up noisy little wavelets, and the cluck and clatter of these among the pebbles, the swish of the rushes and the freshening of the breeze against our faces, roused us. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z “With wavelets you can decompose all that in an efficient way,” Daubechies says. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z She stood there watching the wavelets break at her feet. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z The wavelets are crisper That sway the shy fern, The leaves fondly whisper, "We wait thy return." A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z What was that, just beyond the little wavelet where my Silver Doctor had fallen? A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z Above its innumerable wavelets, above the freshness and dark depths of the water hung the crystal vault of the sky, dappled with delicate tints of rose. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z They coined the term “wavelet” — in French, “ondelette,” meaning “small wave.” The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It was a lovely day; a gentle swell was on, broken into myriads of rippling wavelets by a southern wind, and on it the tall-masted barque rocked gently to and fro. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The surface of the lake was a-dance with the ripples kicked up by the crisp morning breeze, and blindingly bright where the facets of the tiny wavelets reflected the sunlight like shaken diamonds. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z And all this beauty of colouring was reflected from the sea itself, and gave a tinge even to the wavelets that rippled on the silver sands. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The sea was calm and blue as the sky—with only here and there a touch of white where the tiny wavelets broke on the half hidden rocks beyond the Tangle Stanes. The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z In the 20th century, scientists in disparate fields overcame these difficulties by developing tools that coalesced into the mathematical theory of wavelets. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Never heed the wavelets sobbing down the floor! The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z Now they were cutting through the foam, the wavelets striving to pile up and over the top of the canoes. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z We cannot spoon out the sparkles of sunshine as they shimmer on the wavelets of water; but they are there, moving in all their golden life and evanescent grace. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z And the shadow seems e'erlasting, That its boughs are always casting O'er the tiny wavelets' glee. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Daubechies became swept up in her adviser’s enthusiasm for tackling a new topic and forging a technique that led to the new paradigm: wavelet theory. The Godmother of the Digital Image 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Even the lapping of the wavelets upon the shore seemed to have ceased. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Oh! sweet is love's first meeting In the glow of the evening ray, As the song of the wavelet fleeting-- Its plash at the close of day. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z Only one week ago she was sailing over a rippling sea on the wings of a favouring breeze, every wavelet dancing joyously in the sunlight. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z She looked instead, upon the blue waters of a great calm lake, the wavelets of which splashed at her feet, while about her all was sunshine. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z That night the wind started in from the west, and blew down from those very peaks, fanning our fevered cheeks like blessed wavelets from heaven, as indeed they were. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z The flood-tide was making, and the wavelets were lapping against the edge of the serrated reef. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The Princess's sweet thoughts were disturbed by the sudden stopping of her craft, which had run aground on the sands just where the tiny wavelets retreated shyly, to venture again and as quickly withdraw. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z And there were valleys carpeted with flowers; There sweet retreats and honeysuckled bowers; And lakes with wavelets playing too and fro, Waking soft music in their rippling flow. Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z The breeze whispering through the leaves and the splash of tiny wavelets on the beach below were the only sounds Forrester heard. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z Woods on every side, and to the right the bonnie winding Dee, its wavelets sparkling in the sunshine. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z Save where in whitish yellow patches the coral shoals were showing, the whole surface, unrippled by a wavelet, was of a deep cerulean blue. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Alongside of the pier the boats and wherries were all in motion, scratching and otherwise damaging their gunwales against the stones, as they were lifted up and down at the pleasure of the wavelets. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z As she was speaking, a wavelet broke at her feet, and looking down, she saw a round ball of airy lightness and brightness lying on the sand. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z A sulphurous, copperly glare streaming through cast a weird unearthly sheen on the unrhythmically lapping wavelets of the river. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The soft ripple of the wavelets on the shore sounded like faintest music in the intense stillness, and the crooning of some belated sea-bird came like a cry across the waters. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z “What a lovely morning!” said Harry to Mavers, who was leaning over the bows, looking seaward and eastward where the sun was silvering a broad belt of long rippling wavelets. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z If you go up to your chin, the slightest wavelet will lift you off your feet, and in that way many too venturesome people have been drowned not twelve inches from safety. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Their flurry on the water sets up wavelets, that catch the last of the light and run to bank with a little sigh. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z But when you come to the edge of the pool you see only a half-dozen concentric circles of wavelets, widening from central points, where as many musicians have modestly withdrawn beneath the transparent curtain. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z In its place a turbid leaden flood without a sparkling wavelet extended all around. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Not even a gull is on the wing, and the wavelets have forgotten to break on the shingly beach. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The wavelets from his splashing rolled on to the sandy shore, rippling under the aspen. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z A dip in the tepid water refreshed one; the gentle, lapping wavelets whispered of coolness to come. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The Mediterranean, at their feet, slowly swept the shore, with wavelets like the fringes of a river. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Placid as a sheltered lake, every wavelet melting into its fellow like a caress, the sapphire sea greets the gazer every morning like a glad smile of unfathomable love. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The moon was just rising, even before the sun had set, and her pale band ran undulating over the tiny wavelets that we made, and formed oblongs of silver and rose alternately. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z A steady roar of the fall, and a rippling sound above it of bursting bubbles and crossing wavelets of the hastening stream, notched and furrowed over stones, frowning in eager haste. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z I saw, floating near the island, three hyacinths which Clotilda had dropped into the wavelets as she went away. 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 At the end of a little causeway a boat, broadbeamed and lofty of head and stem, rode on the little wavelets. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z In about an hour he returned, but said no word more to me as the boat danced over the wavelets back to that hateful prison. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Now soon the waters meet and pair With the wavelets of St. Clair, As maids when wed do lose their names, No longer it is called the Thames. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z A long way off there was a black mark as it were among the glittering wavelets of the Golden Sea. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z This fraternal voice, coming to me athwart the music of the wavelets, suddenly brought a new world--perhaps the under-world--into my open soul. 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 The onrushing wavelets leaped like furious creatures at these menacing things which evermore preyed upon their foaming, impotent wrath; shaping crystal goblets that bubbled over and burst, and flung showers of magical frothy flowers aloft. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The water, glassy an hour before, thrilled and swelled in answer to the fingers of the wind, as a viol to the touch of its bow, and wavelets widened, shimmered as they ran. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Except for the lap of wavelets against the yacht’s hull, and stentorian snores from somewhere above their heads, the night was peculiarly silent. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z “It is like butterflies flapping their wings,”—he meant the flickering wavelets. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Late in the afternoon they dropped anchor in a rock-walled cove with a beach of white shingle on which sparkling wavelets broke. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The water lay black as the raven outside, but the light of the burning gorse overhead gilded the rolling wavelets at his feet. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z And sparkling over the azure and unquiet wavelets, his light-showering tresses flowed in curls. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z His tall figure stooped heavily; his thick hair fell in wavelets on his shoulders, and was already sprinkled with gray; his long cheeks were deeply lined. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z On the outer or windward side the perch would be on the watch for anything that might come along on the wavelets, and inside for whatever might be washed from the shoal. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Did a wavelet lap the adjacent beach, Nick was sure to bob up and look about him in alarm. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Over the far temple the hair falls from the great waves in little swirling wavelets. Peeps at People 2011-03-26T02:00:17.597Z Its rays caught the sleeping surface of a lake which lies near our little city, touching each rippling wavelet until they seemed made of molten silver. Palos of the Dog Star Pack 2011-03-20T02:00:36.067Z Behind it, lifted and dropped by the languid wavelets, was a launch, a covered shape lying on the floor. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The wind had risen and the wavelets came splash, splash against the edge of the raft. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z He shivered, and half turned towards the door across the promenade; but the wavelets, flying by in their half-blue, half-grey ripples, fascinated him, and he lingered. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z The surface wavelets laugh in the glint of the sun; but sadness is beneath. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z The beach was white and smooth, though the tide ran high, and the wavelets rippled close to the pale sandstone rocks, which lent a tone of delicacy and purity to the foreshore. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z How the tiny wavelets move and sparkle in the glorious bay below. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z The ripples here increased in size, and became wavelets as the breeze, crossing a wider surface of water, blew straight on shore, and seemed to rush in a stronger draught through the trees. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Through the green, quivering foliage I caught glimpses here and there of rippling, dancing wavelets, nodding brown-headed segg grasses, and patches of shimmering, sunlit sands. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z As we returned to the house, we looked across the wavelets of the little cove and saw, above the rocky point round which we had groped last night, a triangular white patch moving slowly along. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z For us, for us alone in all the world the streamlets murmured, the breezes whispered together, the wavelets plashed musically, the blue sky glowed, the sun shone goldingly. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Where a soothing green had cut off the view, now glittered the bright wavelets of the canal. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Bevis agreed, and they pushed the boat along with the sculls a few yards up the Nile which was quite smooth there, while at the mouth the quick wavelets dashed against the shore. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The beach glistened with minute particles of mica, deposited in moir� patterns as the wavelets had left them, and to touch that sand with your hand was to withdraw it again all infinitesimally spangled. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z As a motor boat laboriously plied its way upstream, tiny wavelets pounded against the stone supports of the old mansion. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z How fair a scene it was on this, one of the loveliest days which sun and sky and wavelets deep ever combined to fashion! A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The grass on the canal embankments was already turning green, the ducks going in pairs rocked themselves on the wavelets, and great foamy shimmering slabs of melting ice floated to annihilation. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z These wavelets were not large enough to make the boat dance, but they caused more splashing at the bow, and she heeled a little to the wind. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Pixels are still the starting point of digital pictures today, but math — wavelet theory in particular — is what converts the pixels into the picture. Circling the Square 2010-06-28T15:06:00Z He listened, momently expecting to hear sounds betraying the presence of the owners, but the silence of the sombre forest was unbroken save by the lapping of the little wavelets on the near-by lake shore. Stranded in Arcady The gleaming phosphorescent wavelets of that calm sea fell in broken fire from the vessel's side, while the hissing, splashing sound deadened the recurring shrieks of the doomed sufferers, and soothed my excited nerves. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z So they lost the gleam of the heavenly stars as they were reflected in its wavelets. In Story-land They listened again to the gurgling and “guggling,” the bubbles, and kiss, kiss of the wavelets. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z For the breeze was ripping and delicious, and the delicate silk of the pajamas flowed in little wavelets all the way from my heels to my neck. The Haunted Pajamas Instead, there floated upon the surface of the water, for a mile around, great shining bowls, like huge saucers gently rocking in the faint wavelets. The Secret of the Ninth Planet So close were we by this time to the shore, and so still was the night, that we could even hear the wavelets breaking upon the beach. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Below lies a tiny beach, strewn with a few bits of driftwood and some purple shells, and so sheltered by projecting walls that its wavelets plash but lightly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 The wavelets now washed sideways past it with a gentle splashing, they were not large enough to make the boat dance, and if they had liked they could have gone up and touched it. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Scallops of foam sweep out on each side; their cool fringe dips under a little as the wavelet which comes from the opposite direction lifts its miniature crest and curls over in a graceful sweep. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu After a time the sunlight overspread the landscape, making the watery leaves shine like the multitudinous wavelets of the sea. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands The yacht was upon an even keel, and scarcely a wavelet splashed against her side. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Now there was a chair floating on it ... a little yellow chair that bobbed drolly with the motion of the bright wavelets. Shadows of Flames A Novel You heard the wavelet run along the shore, and the "Hush" dying out infinitesimally, as the world's clamour dies into the silence of space. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The night was so still that the ripple of the wavelets on the beach, half a mile or so away, could be distinctly heard. The Red Rat's Daughter The water broke in wavelets against her side, and formed a foamy wake behind. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa Perpetual summer smiles above them, and wavelets dimpled by gentle breezes forever lave their shores. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Such the doom and fate of human life, little episodes on the stream of time, successive and evanescent as the wavelets that rise and die against the bosom of our little craft. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Almost before we'd thought the order given, the Naiad slowed down, and came to rest like a great Lohengrin swan in the clear azure wavelets. The Brightener Not a breath of air rippled the leaden surface of the sea; not the smallest wavelet played upon the strand. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) He could see little—a mere impressionistic suggestion of the shore-line picked out with the dim, semi-phosphorescent glow of breaking wavelets. The Destroying Angel In the walls of richest gold Let the purest diamonds shimmer; Round the fountains’ pearly rim, Where bright the sunbeams are glancing, Plashing low and murmuring sweet, Set the merry wavelets dancing. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Between the reef and the island a shallow lagoon lay in sullen grayness, its surface broken into innumerable tiny wavelets by the continual splash of rain. To Choke an Ocean The top plane of water rippled softly; little wavelets eddied against the rocks and whispered as the shape slipped down underneath. Seed of the Arctic Ice How lovely the little river is, with its dark, changing wavelets! Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation She saw that this was reflected from a rose-red, shining water, which went plashing and rushing away in front of them in wavelets of roseate silver. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. As they sat munching the lunch the motion of the wavelets under the raft, dancing it up and down, made them laugh. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest The water stirred by the plunge of the stone spreads in wavelets in an ever widening circle till it compasses the entire pool. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in The small clouds of sand were easily seen by eyes such as his and as he nodded a sudden gust tore the surface of the river into a speeding army of wavelets. Bring Me His Ears On the instant, the lapping wavelets became breakers, the wind rose to a deafening shriek, throwing Angelique to the ground and causing even the strong man to reel before it. A Daughter of the Forest The lagoon was thick with many-tinted wavelets; a continuous roaring of the outer sea overhung the anchorage; and the long, hollow crescent of palm ruffled and sparkled in the wind. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Olga's hand, moving through the water, breaks it into little wavelets on which the riotous moonbeams dance. Rossmoyne Foaming, laughing, singing, the water ran away shining in the red light of the setting sun, golden in the little wavelets that kissed the banks. A Mad Love A great, tumultuous ripple tore the surface of the water, subsided somewhat and boiled anew, the wavelets gold and crimson and steel blue against the uniform lavender shade around them. Bring Me His Ears To the younger commercial traveler her accents sounded like the wavelets on a beach! John March, Southerner Listen to the gentle splashing of the wavelets; are they not words of love which she is whispering to the husband who rules her? Weird Tales, Vol. II. And we’re every bit as good as she is―” Her gaze dropped to the tumbling wavelets between her and the distant green hillock. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club She drew nearer, she laid one hand on the little wavelets, and the cool, sweet touch refreshed her. A Mad Love Seven brown wavelets are ever in motion, And silken floss to them is naught, to our notion. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children It came at last; a faint, grey light in the east, a climbing flush of rose-colour, a host of crimson wavelets on a golden sea. Under False Pretences A Novel The white, shining stones that rose above the eddying little wavelets seemed to invite him to cross to the other side. Kidnapped at the Altar or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain Although convinced that aid was now impossible, we took our guns and hastened to the spot where the accident happened; but all was still there, not a wavelet disturbed the surface of the stream. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Even the sun seemed to be laughing, as he climbed up over the rim of the water and turned the wavelets into gold. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars There is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsion occasioned by good hearty laughter. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 A grin ran over their faces like a spreading wavelet on a pool. The Bondboy Like the Sandpipers the Plovers dance along the shore in rhythm with the wavelets, leaving sharp half-webbed footprints on the wet sand. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1897 He could visualize the water whipped into dimpled wavelets by wind and rain. The Flying Stingaree The thousands of tiny aberrations in the tossing wavelets on the ocean's bottom sent steely reflection of the moon's luminescence in sparkling sheens to the Searcher's eyes. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 Yet that very day she was enjoying, bare-foot, the cool, soft sand, and playing with the foamy wavelets as the tide came in. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated He gazed out across the wide monotony of prairie with its undulating wavelets, a tawny green beneath the scorching summer sun. The Law-Breakers The light, he saw, made soft wavelets of radiance in her hair, and her eyes were still glowing and tender. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Before she could find one, however, the tide was upon them, their feet splashing in the thin yellow wavelets. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Of a dirty-green color, pungent, all-powerful, it heats up the stomach, expending itself at the extremities in half-developed throbs, perpetual wavelets of rankling sting that break upon the shores of flesh. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 If it does not wholly prevent the formation of the first wrinkles of novel opinion, it at least prevents their heightening into wavelets or seas. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Creeping and curving across the gray sand, The wavelets came dancing to kiss the fair land, Wooing with murmurs the flower-gemmed lea; “Ah,” cried Miss Pops, “they are whispering to me, Whispering to me!” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Till every thought, that like a wavelet, breaks Upon the surface of life's charmed pool, Circling instinctively, unbidden, takes Form, hue, direction, from that magic rule! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The wavelets dashed pleasantly against the bows, and the course of the boat remained sufficiently straight to keep her sail filled. Among the Brigands Her voice was curiously soft, without the least ring or even suggestion of firmness; warm and yielding as a summer wavelet. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real They are in circumstances in which the ripple passes into the wavelet, and the wavelet into the billow. Leading Articles on Various Subjects And in the cool fresh evening breeze That crisps the wavelets as they pass. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 In a sheltered corner under the board walk, the girls divested themselves of their shoes and stockings, scampered back to the edge and encountered knee deep waves or wavelets. The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest Or, the Wig Wag Rescue The wind to his inexperienced senses seemed a hurricane, and the wavelets seemed formidable waves. Among the Brigands The wavelets along the side of the boat were noisy; they rattled like paper. The River Prophet "Be all at rest."—"let not your heart be rippled," For tiny wavelets mar the image fair Which the still pool reflects of heaven's glory— And thus the Image he would have you bear. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Presently he could hear the rustle of green leaves, and he thought it was the purring of wavelets on the bank, the white, shining bank that beckoned him on. With Hoops of Steel Wooded promontories, around which the wavelets sparkled, pushed out into the deep, clear flood. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse The feel of him still inside her sent wavelets of pleasure through her. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The girl caught the tiny wavelets in her outstretched hand and said that Corydon had become blind. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar For every wavelet of land upon the surface of the Boer States, a hundred great billows stand up in Natal. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government A wavelet splashed up against the clay on which they were standing. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius It resembled more a series of little wavelets, such as proceed from a stone plunged into a deep pool, or from a disturbance of the water caused by the movements of some animal. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt A bird dipped his wing into it midway, and set a circle of wavelets tripping to the shore. The Art of Disappearing The water was scarcely ruffled, and little wavelets splashed on the shore, where mangrove thickets spread their bright foliage. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The little wavelets which broke at their feet were the color of blood, while the lake itself lay like a giant ruby in its setting of green; glistening and sparkling in the sun's bright rays. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades The soft winds from the west are blowing, and the wavelets, dancing in the light of the moon, play with her shining rays as they leap on to break gently on the sandy beach. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon Blue sky, green trees, a snowy shore, and little azure wavelets.... Athalie The wavelets formed by the steady wind and the current were making a faint, but disconcerting, noise. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany A splendid opal glinted above her brow, and her hair, like sunlight mixed with gold, came forward shading eyes of loveliest blue, then flowed back like rippling wavelets move towards the shore. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus They descended the sandy and shingly beach until further progress was barred by the lapping wavelets of the rising tide. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Fresh sky, sunfish like tropic shells in the translucent water, arching reeds dipping their olive-green points in the water, wavelets rustling against a gray neglected rowboat, and beside him Ruth. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life The lake wavelets tinkled musically on a pebbly beach. The Crack of Doom This pays for all the toil, this quiet after— Joy, my sweet Sirmio, for thy master's sake, Make merry, frolic wavelets of my lake— Laugh on me, all ye stores of home-bred laughter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Where the Creek swirled out to join Third Lake, the purplish circles made there gradually lost their foaming haste and gently merged into the wavelets of clear cold water. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks The blue bright sea was dimpled with wavelets. Vixen, Volume III. The surface of the water was smooth, and tinted like a bluebell, save for one patch in the current where wavelets leaped with October madness in sparkles of diamond fire. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life White spots, curling wavelets, dotted it; then broke abroad as white-horses in full mad landward career. A Poor Man's House One saw at once that her cheeks should have been pink and white like the daisy, and that her hair, which was yellow as the primrose, should have tumbled in wavelets about them. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time There was scarcely a zephyr stirring, so that the rapidly flowing river was without wavelet or disturbance. Footprints in the Forest The voyage had been, so far, without accidents, or even incidents; the weather had been lovely; the sea, a magnificent stretch of blue, with a few miniature wavelets dancing in the sunlight. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Now the Barang leaned slightly to full canvas and snored easily through the phosphorescent seas with a pleasant tinkling of running wavelets along her sides. Gold Out of Celebes It had not sea-space to raise big waves, but it blew the white tops off the wavelets which hurried out against, and on the top of, the sou'westerly swell that was heaving its way in. A Poor Man's House The great highway followed the lake, and occasionally, above the muffled hum of the motor, Orme could hear the lapping of the wavelets on the beach. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure The shallow wavelets of the advancing tide were already lapping at the soft, red bank on their right. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Our boat was drawn up close by, the day was bright, and the sea calm, its tiny wavelets making drowsy, dreamy music on the yellow sands. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls By and by Celia tired a little, so they sat and dangled their feet and watched the tiny scalloped blue wavelets dance in the current. The Adventures of Bobby Orde Spray skatted gleefully over her bows and the wavelets made a gurgling music along the clinker-built strakes of her. A Poor Man's House On yonder hill the Oread was adored, In yonder tree the Dryad held her home; And from her Urn the gentle Naiad pour'd The wavelet's silver foam. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 The ships in a cradle swing, And sailormen blink and children sink To sleep, as the wavelets sing. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates The air was close and oppressive; fitful flashes of heat lightning shimmered here and there over the heavy banks of cloud on the horizon; little wavelets sobbed at the base of the rocks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Bobby looked, and saw, preening its feathers calmly, a live duck rising to the wavelets. The Adventures of Bobby Orde When the dark green water reached her, and the lapping wavelets swished up over the hem of her dress, she lifted her head and a sudden strange smile flashed over her face. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 He looked out upon the lake, and wished he was floating over its tiny wavelets. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton One reason doubtless is that at their upper ends the lakes were shallow, and incompetent on this account to raise wavelets of any strength to act upon the mountain drift. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Behind the house a little tongue of the St. Lawrence gulf ran up between the headlands until the wavelets of its tip almost lapped against Miss Hannah's kitchen doorstep. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Through the interstices between the piles the wavelets went lap, lap, slap, lap! The Adventures of Bobby Orde A dark line was seen suddenly advancing over the shining ocean, it increased in width, the whole surface became rippled with tiny wavelets. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea The light that reaches us from distant worlds comes to us in rhythmical wavelets. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism A series of slight mechanical shocks is experienced by a body plunged in the water, as the wavelets reach it in succession. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 There he lay down on a bed of dry reed, looking at the water which broke in wavelets at his feet. En Route Through the trees, the water of the lake glistened and shimmered and danced while the soft rippling sound of tiny wavelets lapping at the bank seemed to call to them invitingly. Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion She was apparently absorbed in watching the tiny wavelets at her feet, scarcely bestowing a glance upon the numberless brilliant sails, scattered like a field of Roman anemones upon the deep green of the sea. A Venetian June We appeared to be descending a steep hill of water at times; now wavelets rose on either side, and threatened to leap into the boat. In the Wilds of Africa Above water nought was to be seen but a bleak, rocky, forbidding coast, a grey sky with sleet driving across it, and an angry indigo sea covered with white wavelets. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Farther on, a snow-white line told where the wavelets kissed the rugged shore, but no sound of the kiss reached the hunter’s ear. The Eagle Cliff “Yes, massa, if he don’t blow too strong,” returned Moses, as a squall came rushing down the mountains and swept over the bay, ruffling its now dark waters into foaming wavelets. Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago How cool, too, were those little fresh-water lakes they passed, the clear blue and white of them stirred into wavelets that moved the reeds and left air-bubbles about the half-submerged stones! Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 The schooner, now beginning to feel the wind, made rapid way through the water; which, stirred up into wavelets, hissed and bubbled under her bows as her stem clove a passage through it. In the Wilds of Africa The wind stirred the water into wrinkles and wavelets along the shore, which rippled against the canoe and the end of the paddle when held motionless. The Phantom of the River The portion nearest the water's edge was honeycombed by the wavelets that dashed upon it without ceasing, rushing in and out of the small, luminous caverns in swift, sparkling rivulets. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska On and on they pulled, while the sinking sun gilded the little wavelets, and bathed both river and the shores in golden glory. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace She was a creature all curves and dimples, sparkling with the sunshine of life like the wavelets of a glassy sea. The Highgrader The scattered lumps melted and flowed together, converging in wavelets of blue flame upon the men. A World is Born The wind still blowing strongly up the river rustled the vegetation, and whipped the surface of the river into wavelets that veiled other sounds, and helped to conceal any disturbance of the water. The Phantom of the River The sea sparkled, the wavelets leaped and clapped their hands. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Beneath, the little stream was brawling down the valley, catching the moonlight on its wavelets. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. The moonlight was whirled along in the braided current, the wavelets winked and whispered, the irises seemed to lean over asleep. The Adventures of Maya the Bee After pacing up and down for a time I leant over the taff-rail and began idly watching the tiny wavelets with their crests of white fire as they rippled away from the vessel's side. A Master of Mysteries Through my glass, as I drew near, I could see a cloud of them hovering above the wavelets, or covering the exposed antlers. Wood Folk at School Not long after, just before darkness, they saw one jump overboard from that schooner's stern and strike out strongly for the Malahini through the white, spitting wavelets. A Son Of The Sun Little wavelets broke gently against their slender craft. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol He's a fierce and hungry mink;" "That's the ripple on the water, When the winds the wavelets stir;" "That—snap quick, my little hearties!— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Ten minutes later Josh declared he had caught a glimpse of the sun shining on dancing wavelets; and shortly afterwards a sudden turn brought them in full view of the pond. The Boy Scouts of Lenox The slant rays of the setting sun lay on the wide stretch of level sand surrounding Bermuda Point, for the tide was out, and had left it smooth, or slightly rippled as with tiny wavelets. A Sailor's Lass Snow shrugged his shoulders and gazed bleakly at the smooth surface of the lagoon, where tiny wavelets danced in the afternoon sun. A Son Of The Sun So fierce was it that it cut off the crests of the wavelets, blowing the sea almost flat for a time, and producing what is known as a white squall. The Hot Swamp The forms represented in our illustration are only wavelets on the backs of these monster waves. The Ocean and its Wonders The other beach, a smooth, sloping circlet of fair white sand, laved only by the ripples of the lagoon, or by its tiny wavelets, when a gale chanced to sweep over it from the land. Jarwin and Cuffy The pool circled about in large oily wavelets flecked with foam, so that there was a great contrast in all this to the tremendous turmoil of the raging rapid. Erling the Bold The sea, white with fury, boiled in tiny, spitting wavelets. A Son Of The Sun The tide was out; the sea was calm and the sun glinted brightly on the wavelets that sighed rather than broke upon the sands. Charlie to the Rescue The stream entered the pool with a headlong plunge, and issued from it with a riotous upheaval of wavelets and foam among jagged rocks, as if rejoicing in, and rather boastful about, the previous leap. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables The brown spot hung on the crest of a wavelet. The Blue Envelope There was a light breeze, which just rippled the water into wavelets, amid which the brig glided onward. Twice Lost This soon broke the hitherto tranquil lake into hissing wavelets, which continually toppled over into the canoe. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa The sea, just crisped over with wavelets, glittered brightly, and ever and anon huge fish rose to the surface and gambolled round the ships, wondering what strange monsters had come to invade their watery domain. The Settlers A Tale of Virginia The sea had already gone down, and in a few hours sparkling wavelets alone played over the surface of the deep. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler Bending to the oars they set their boat cutting across the wavelets that increased in size with the rising wind. The Blue Envelope It was blowing fresh, and there was a good deal of ripple in the harbour, so that the wavelets every now and then washed over Tom. Paddy Finn The soft moonbeams shed a bright light on the calm waters, just rippled over by the breeze, the wavelets sparkling like frosted silver. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley When daylight returned, the clouds disappearing, the sun shone forth, brightly sparkling on the tiny wavelets, which now danced merrily on the bosom of the harbour. The Settlers A Tale of Virginia Now and then a flying-fish would break through the glassy surface, or some monster of the deep show us his snout, leaving a circle of wavelets as he quickly descended. The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book The tall ship glided rapidly over the ocean, the surface of which was now rippled with miniature wavelets as the freshening breeze swept across it. Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land A light breeze from the northward sent the wavelets rippling against the rock. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures In a short time the light increased, the sun rose above the ocean, and a gentle breeze waved the topmost boughs of the trees, breaking the sea below on the left into tiny wavelets. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley The wind fell as the night drew on, and the sea became calm, rippled over only by little wavelets, upon which the moonbeams played brightly. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea Dark clouds had been gathering around, and the wavelets began to play over the hitherto calm ocean. The African Trader The Adventures of Harry Bayford The little glistening wavelets leap to meet each other, like lovers reunited whose mouths are hungry for the pressure of glad greetings. Priscilla's Spies Sudden gusts blew across it, covering its surface with wavelets, which every moment increased in size. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze. In the Eastern Seas Now we could feel the wind blowing against our cheeks, and the whole surface of the water became suddenly rippled into wavelets, from which the white foam flew off in thick sheets. On the Banks of the Amazon Every wavelet on the waters hushed itself asleep, and the whole surface of the lake was as a sea of polished glass. Winter Adventures of Three Boys Little wavelets formed under the Blue Wandere's bow and curled outwards from her sides, spreading slowly and then fading away in her wake. Priscilla's Spies There will be the slow heave of the calm billow, and the wavelets may sparkle in the sunlight, though they be still from all the winds that rave. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. “Will—will—it be quite safe?” said Mrs Major Negus in a hesitating way, looking at the bright, frisking little wavelets which covered the blue sea of the bay with some slight alarm. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land At this moment I felt a faint breath of air stirring about me, and heard the small, musical lap of the tiny wavelets alongside as the new breeze arrived. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron And gladly, brightly on the wavelets go, And musically murmur as they flow. The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic Shann glanced with new interest at the green water surging in wavelets along the edge of the fiord. Storm Over Warlock Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, the very life of Christ Himself. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The midnight chime With mystic music fills the air, And bears the news, "'Tis Christmas time," In sobbing wavelets everywhere. The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses Hail, lovely Sirmio, and gladly greet thy lord; and joy ye, wavelets of the Lybian lake; laugh ye the laughters echoing from my home. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus The stars shone brightly, and gleamed on the tiny wavelets that purled along toward the beach close by. The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol Here and there nodules of rock projected inches or feet above the surface, awash in the wavelets, to be avoided by the voyagers. Storm Over Warlock There are silver wavelets flowing, With a lulling sound of rest, Where the west wind softly blowing Fans the far lands of the blest. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems It was a game with the horse and the wavelets that she was playing. The Mermaid A Love Tale About eight o'clock the moon, immense and crimson, came up from behind the Maryland hills, and cast a lurid path upon the wavelets. The Statesmen Snowbound Rocked by the wavelets speeds our skiff To the oar's measured beat; Cloudclapt, the heaven-aspiring hills Appear our course to meet. The Youth of Goethe The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips. Storm Over Warlock Green wavelets lapped against the clean white side, and below the water-line the red of the bottom glimmered. Where the Sun Swings North Even where the fierce gust swept off the crests of the river wavelets, boiling and breaking angrily, there was scant contrast of color in the dusky spray, or murky foam. Border and Bastille It was true that the level of water within the cave had fallen, that wavelets no longer lapped with the same vigor. Key Out of Time The most distant object seemed near; the wavelets on the unfrozen water of the lake gave to the surface, usually so blue, a rough, grey aspect. The Long Night The night was so still she could hear the soft tinkle of the ships' bells off the Luneta,—could almost hear the soothing plash of the wavelets on the beach. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila She looked away, out across the lake where a fitful breeze was turning the molten-metal dimples into laughing wavelets. The Price Now the inundation divided itself into separate wavelets, the last lagging behind, crested by a foaming parasol, which hid all details, except a general white muslin filminess. My Friend the Chauffeur Moments later Ross pulled out of the water once more, to crouch shivering on a ledge only lapped now and then by wavelets. Key Out of Time IX In blossoms the wistaria-tree to-day Breaks forth, that sweep the wavelets of my lake:— When will the mountain cuckoo come and make The garden vocal with his first sweet lay? Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Even among the wavelets of the Faro we remember Homer, scanning the shore if haply somewhere yet may linger the wild fig-tree which saved Ulysses from the whirlpool of Charybdis. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The running stream, which flowed in rippling wavelets at my feet, was the satisfactory reply. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth The morning was fine, and a light breeze rippled up wavelets that twinkled in the sunlight. Our Navy in the War The soft breezes played round her, and at her feet the little wavelets of the lake rippled in a soft cadence. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 The result was that the eye saw nothing of the water or the wavelet, but caught only the brilliant glow. Nature Near London Gladys swallowed hard and stiffened out like a crowbar; then as a wavelet washed over her face she clutched wildly at Nyoda and put her feet on solid bottom. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping Presently the wavelets were sounding "whiff, whiff, whiff," as the white bows crushed them down. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure "There is not," says Dr. Green, "one remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by a good hearty laugh." Cheerfulness as a Life Power The little wavelets came dancing shoreward out of the darkness, breaking with a thin, splashing sound against the shale at their feet. The Danger Mark The boat whose varnished sides but now slipped so gently that the cutwater did not even raise a wavelet, and every black rivet-head was visible as a line of dots, begins to forge ahead. Nature Near London Not for one moment of the forty-eight hours that it took to reach Southampton did the wavelets upset the equilibrium of the vessel. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" They fell close by the shore, and were carried straight back to her by the little wavelets; it seemed as if the river would not accept her offering, as it had not taken little Kay. Stories from Hans Andersen The queenly Hudson circling at thy feet Lingers to sing a song of joy and love, Pouring her heart in rippling wavelets sweet, Which sun-kissed glance up to thy throne above. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention She would fling herself amongst the wavelets where she stands and splashes. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine Round the curve on the concave and lee side of the river, where the wind drives the wavelets direct upon the strand, there are little beaches formed by the undermining and fall of the bank. Nature Near London If she knows of sprites, and gnomes, and nymphs, and fairies, she finds them all dancing in glee at her feet in the form of rippling wavelets. The Vitalized School The moon was shining brightly overhead, and glittering in the waters of the lagoon, which were broken into innumerable little wavelets by the continual crossing and recrossing of the gondolas dotting its surface. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century Over my hands Flowed golden wavelets, Cool, sweet lips and— I'll say no more. Atlantis A southwestern breeze is ruffling the river, and drives the little wavelets in the same direction as the current. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics A skiff partly drawn up on the beach rocks as the current strives to work it loose, and up the varnish of the side glides a flickering light reflected from the wavelets. Nature Near London The blending of colors, the easy dalliance, the rippling laughter, the graceful feasting, and the eddying wavelets all conspire to produce a scene that serves to emphasize the beauty of the shores. The Vitalized School Now and then a wavelet stole far into the beach, as if to caress him, but pined away ere it could reach its goal. The House of the Vampire Sand of the red grit, lightened by the golden flecks which glittered in the sun, stretched to the edge of the wavelets breaking with only languor on the curve of earth. Plague Ship September 19.—Lying by the lake yesterday afternoon, with my eyes shut, while the breeze and sunshine were playing together on the water, the quick glimmer of the wavelets was perceptible through my closed eyelids. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics Noiselessly the great hulk had drifted upon me; as it came the light glinted on the wavelets before the bow, quick points of brilliant light. Nature Near London Swiftly they pulled up, dappling the smooth grey water with falling drops from the oar-blades, and leaving behind them two lines of spreading wavelets that tracked the boat's way. Hills of the Shatemuc While logic sounds the depths of thought, humor ripples its surface with laughing wavelets. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures In some portions faint ridges were visible, like the prints left by tiny wavelets on the sand. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring A little pain when the beck grows wider— "Cross to me now, for her wavelets swell:" "I may not cross" and the voice beside her Faintly reacheth, though heeded well. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation A cuckoo came to this ash every morning, and called there for an hour at a time, his notes echoing along the building, one following the other as wavelets roll on the summer sands. Nature Near London And all the while the flock of wooden decoys headed unanimously up wind, and bobbed in the wavelets; and the sun went on gilding the mountains to the west. The Killer Nor why the wavelets that all the while, In many a diamond-glittering file, With truant sunbeams play, Should make me remember your rippling smile— I shouldn't like to say. Point Lace and Diamonds As its rays enwrapped her eyes, she heard the leaves rustling in melody and the wavelets rippling in tune. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Waves which have their origin in the action of the wind striking the surface of the water commence as a series of small and slow undulations or wavelets—a mere ripple. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 To him the figure seemed to be moving; a quiver like the ripple of a wavelet crossed her stomach, and her left hip became straightened, as if the right leg were about to step out. His Masterpiece Away along the curving shore, with the salt breath of ocean fresh upon them, went these young hearts, rejoicing in their existence, while the sea danced in sparkling wavelets at their feet. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel It was as if the sailor were complacently letting himself be rocked by the tiny rippling wavelets. Jerusalem Second, each wavelet tossed in air is cooled, and deposits on the edge, solid as quartz, a crust that overhangs the pool and tends to close it over as with hot ice. Among the Forces And each tiny silent wavelet as it moved up toward the shore and lost itself at last in its own effort, stretched itself the whole length of the strand. The Claverings In the middle, the open stream flowed on in rippling, greenish wavelets tipped here and there with white, blue, and pink. His Masterpiece The effect of her concentration was almost hypnotic: as if her soul, deserting her still body, flickered away there on the water; as if every threat of wind or wavelet struck at her very life.... Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Her eyes sparkled, reflecting light as little wavelets of a sun-kissed lake. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Its tiny wavelets touch the stone work like a sculptor's fingers, molding the yielding mass into exquisitely graceful forms. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park "Yes, massa, if he don't blow too strong," returned Moses, as a squall came rushing down the mountains and swept over the bay, ruffling its now dark waters into foaming wavelets. Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata See the bits of him in the wavelets! Pearl of Pearl Island Oh Lamp of my life, flame of my heart," she addressed it, just above her breath, "sail safely through the wavelets and answer truly what fate awaits me now? Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Upon the face of the river lights continued to twinkle, catching and mottling the wavelets. Nocturne The wall was removed, and the wavelets rippled placidly between the two pavilions on the lake. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Within a snug little arbor beside the lake in Central Park the two sit side by side, watching the idly-floating pleasure crafts, and noting the lazy ripples of the green wavelets. Idle Hour Stories The irritation spreads to adjacent areas, as wavelets spread from a stone thrown into a pond, with the result that convulsions of other limbs follow in sequence, all confined to one side. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Another wavelet skimmed in and broke a little further up the sand. Red Pottage A brisk easterly breeze set all the face of it a-ripple, and where the dancing wavelets caught the sun it glanced and gleamed like sheets of molten silver. A Maid of the Silver Sea The broad river, with its dull brown flood breaking in oily wavelets against the embankment wall, exercised a fascination. The Devil's Garden The lap, lap of the wavelets whispering against the schooner's hull, the drone of the surf on a distant bar, and the sounds of insect life from the shore were accompaniments to their long talk. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod A smart breeze, kicking up spiteful wavelets on the wider reaches, splashed them with sheeted water as well as fine-flung spray. Dutch Courage and Other Stories It was to him as if a miniature wavelet of a great ocean somewhere in the distance had crept up to laugh and break at his feet. Red Pottage Could it indeed be that no more than twenty-four hours back he had ridden, secure and free from this horrible care, along the shining sands by the crisp salt wavelets of the Forth? Stories of the Border Marches The boat moved with perfect evenness, while the wavelets played round her like young dolphins out for a holiday. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Not a house on the banks of the mere; not a sign of life; only the low plash of wavelets on the pebbles. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance "My dear, beautiful lake!" sighed Marie, casting backward a sorrowful glance at the glittering expanse of water, at the paradise of her dreams, which the rising wind was curling into wavelets. The Nameless Castle For some time the little wavelets beat against the side of the boat; gradually they ceased, and the clear and beautiful water became still. After London Or, Wild England Only the heavy breathing of the tired boys gave evidence of life aboard the Fortuna as she rode to her anchor, swinging with the currents and wavelets. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters The wavelets strike with a faint 'sock-sock' against the bluff overhanging bow, and then roll on to the lee-shore close at hand. The Amateur Poacher He wore a close-fitting cap, from beneath which his thick hair fell in short wavelets that were tossed by the wind. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Nid-nods its tufted summit like three ostrich plumes; its beetling crags, bent poppies, shadows, willowy shores, all nod; its streams are murmuring down the hills; its wavelets hush the shore. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I They floated on the surface and undulated to the wavelets, a pale yellowish green expanse. After London Or, Wild England There was not the lapse of a wavelet on the shore. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The quill above the blue buoy nods as it lifts over the wavelets—nods again, sinks a little, jerks up, and then goes down out of sight. The Amateur Poacher They broke in a succession of tiny wavelets against the encircling rocks. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories But the only sound he heard was the labored pumping of his own heart and the swish of the wavelets against the timbered buttress of the Sawdust Pile. Kindred of the Dust The wavelets which rolled alongside were black, and the slight spray that occasionally flew on board was black, and stained the side of the vessel. After London Or, Wild England He could hear the gentle clatter of the wavelets against the lip of the landing-drop as the boat came nearer. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The only ripple of the surface, till broken by the sculls, was where the swallows dipped as they glided, leaving a circle of tiny wavelets that barely rolled a yard. The Amateur Poacher They fed all together upon the edge of the water, upon the edge of the falling tide, very far off, making long bands of white that mixed with the tiny breaking wavelets. Hills and the Sea Her damp hair lay in little wavelets about her temples, and her big, sunny, gray eyes were always her best feature. Vanguards of the Plains By now being some distance from any island, the wavelets increased in size, and spray flew on board, wetting everything with this black liquid. After London Or, Wild England White as weaned lambs the little wavelets curled, Fall over in harmless play, As these do far away; Sail, bird of doom, along the shimmering sea, All under thy broad wings that overshadow thee. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Now to friendly purling of playful wavelets, the sea moves in shifting harmonies. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies They caught the swells and lay back against the heavy tow, letting the wavelets lap up to their chins. Every Soul Hath Its Song There were tiny little wavelets splashing over the rocks, and you couldn’t think which was bluer—the sea or the sky. Us and the Bottleman Felix thought that the water had lost its clearness and had become thick, which he put down to the action of the wavelets disturbing the sand in the shallows. After London Or, Wild England A little pain when the beck grows wider; "Cross to me now—for her wavelets swell." Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Then the foaming fringe of wavelets caught the boat, hurled it forward, seemed all but to engulf it out leaped the sailors. Spanish Doubloons Slowly she rose through a sky freckled with wavelets of cloud, and as she crept up amongst them she brought them all out, in bluish, pearly, and opaline gray. Paul Faber, Surgeon The gentle wavelets of the torpid tide were creeping round that thing in red doublet and breeches, in high top boots, lace cuffs and collar. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk When I thus communed with myself I was sitting, like a pensive maiden in a thoughtless romance, by the side of a brook, watching the wavelets as they passed. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The wavelets catch the sunbeams separately, the leaves stir when the branches do not move. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy We listened quite contentedly to the uproar, looking out from our windows upon windswept marsh and scudding clouds and the fussy little wavelets of our harbour. Virginia: the Old Dominion The sun was now near the height of its curve, and every wavelet was carrying away a bit of the golden band that divided the blue immensity. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel In the still night, far, far below, The drowsy wavelets come and go, They weave a dream spell round Wohelo. The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos Methought, on a flowery bank I lay, By a beautiful stream; and watched the play Of the sparkling wavelets, that fled so fast, I could not number them as they passed. The Youth's Coronal Yet the event works back upon the background, as the wavelet works upon the waves, or as the leaf's movements work upon the sap inside the branch. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Calm is the eve, The wavelets heave Their crests to the setting sun, Glitter awhile In his golden smile, And their brilliant course is run. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 I hear the innumerable wavelets spend themselves gently upon the shore, and die away to rise again. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V The plaudits of yesterday were ringing in my ears, the wavelets danced to their music, my oars kept time to the vanity measure of my beating mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Beside my garden's ivied wall, Enwreathed in vines of gold and green, I stand, as evening shadows fall, And marvel at the matchless scene, While wavelets make, with rhythmic beat, Perpetual music at my feet. Poems We rise upon the earth as wavelets rise upon the ocean. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy And winding thro' the mountains The lake's calm wavelets rolled, And a cloudless sun was gilding Their ripples with its gold. Poems: Patriotic, Religious The gigantic slab before me glowed with them, silver wavelets of phosphorescence pulsed over its surface and then—it turned as though on a pivot, sighing softly as it moved! The Moon Pool The crested wavelets ran up the beach audaciously, joyously, with the lightness of young life, and died quickly, unresistingly, and graciously, in the wide curves of transparent foam on the yellow sand. Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river What is the cause of this passionate strain, Voiced by thy wavelets again and again? Poems "Over the blue waters!" they shouted in chorus as I dipped my paddle into the diamond-crested wavelets. Gulliver of Mars At times the mountain's shadow Fell dark across the scene, And veiled with veil of purple The wavelets' silver sheen. Poems: Patriotic, Religious He glanced across the reeds reflected on the water, the quiver of wavelets like crumpled tinfoil, the distant shores patched with dark woods, silvery oats and deep yellow wheat. Main Street It was as if the peculiar atmosphere of each had yet a kind of invisible tremulousness; as if its agitated wavelets had not yet subsided into a perfect calm. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Then there came a low murmuring strain as of wavelets that ripple against a sandy shore. Tales from Two Hemispheres "A large extent of white wavelets often to be seen on the coasts of Amboyna, and in these parts of the sea." Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea And now and then it surely seemed The little stream was laughing low, As if its sleepy wavelets dreamed Such dreams as only children know. Poems: Patriotic, Religious Having failed to obtain work here as yet he went away, and thought again of his cousin, whose presence somewhere at hand he seemed to feel in wavelets of interest, if not of emotion. Jude the Obscure He seemed in doubt how to answer, and the babble without reached them as they sat—voices as of wavelets on a looping sea, one ever and anon rising above the rest. The Mayor of Casterbridge The sun glittered in the dewy grass, the crickets sung with a remote voice of wonder, and the air seemed to be half visible, and moved in trembling wavelets on the path before them. Tales from Two Hemispheres We rise upon the Earth as wavelets rise upon the ocean. The Centaur Dreaming The moan of a wintry soul Melted into a summer song, And the words, like the wavelet's roll, Moved murmuringly along. Poems: Patriotic, Religious The sibilant lisping of the wavelets against the bund sang him softly toward oblivion … and a convention of water-fowl went into stormy executive session out in the middle of the lake. The Bronze Bell Every little wavelet sparkled like a jewel, and the sunlight shimmered on the water in a most alluring way. Lo, Michael! Up the shelving shore, small, puny wavelets dashed in impotent fury, and the shingle sang unceasingly its dreary, syncopated monotone. The Black Bag She watched the indolent chasing of wavelets round the small rocks, the curling of the deep blue water round the water-shadowed reefs. The Trespasser Bright wavelets wove the scarf of blue That well became the valley fair, And grassy fringe of greenest hue Hung round its borders everywhere. Poems: Patriotic, Religious The effect of the dropping of the coin had been like the dropping of a stone into the still smoothness of a pool—the wrinkling wavelets had reached the uttermost shore-line. The Under Dog Act at first as though every wavelet would surely swamp you. The Forest He was trying to produce the effect of a warm night on the beach with no wind, where the tiny wavelets simply crumble in a brittle fashion on the sand. Robert Browning: How to Know Him The boat rocked with greater violence, as invisible wavelets dashed against the shore. Sanine And just like the wavelet that moans on the beach, And, sighing, sinks back to the sea, So my song — it just touches the rude shores of speech, And its music melts back into me. Poems: Patriotic, Religious You only hide it by foam and bubbles, by wavelets and steam-clouds, of ebullient rhetoric: I speak of the Anabaptists as Anti-pædobaptists. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But no little wavelets ran over that sea; no stir of wind was in the stifling air; a great storm was gathering. Dream Tales and Prose Poems These, steaming to the Sun, Give the lost wavelets back in cloudy fleece To trickle down the hills, and glide again; Having no pause or peace. The Light of Asia A wind, too, swept the water into small rough wavelets. Three Weeks In songs of birds, in rustle of the flowers, In swaying of the trees, and on the seas The blue lips of the wavelets tell the ships That come and go, His holy, holy name. Poems: Patriotic, Religious But a brighter vision Yet his eyes behold; Roses pied and lilies Every path enfold; Lakes delicious sleeping, Silver fishes leaping, Through the wavelets creeping Up to reeds of gold. Poems The whole surface of this gradually undulating mountain desert is ribbed by little wavelets a few inches apart, but the general aspect is one of perfect smoothness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 The sun shone radiantly; sparkles of light from the rippling wavelets responded to his ardent caress. The Heavenly Twins For Athens I say forth a gracious prophecy,— The glory of the sunlight and the skies Shall bid from earth arise Warm wavelets of new life and glad prosperity. The House of Atreus Just a hundred feet away, Seaward, flows and ebbs the tide; And the wavelets, blue and gray, Moan, and white sails windward glide O'er the ever restless sea From me, far and peacefully. Poems: Patriotic, Religious A pleasant northwesterly breeze swept the smoke haze from off the town and kissed the blue waters of the land-locked harbor into white-crested wavelets. The Wheel O' Fortune Beneath this pleasant bower Catharine could repose, and watch her companions at their novel employment, or bathe her feet and infirm ancle in the cool streamlet that rippled in tiny wavelets over its stony bed. Canadian Crusoes At that time we gazed upon the wavelets of the river and the wonders of the world from exactly the same angle of vision. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur A woman's voice ringing through the night, chanting in a tone of singular sweetness words of which each syllable comes through my open window like a wavelet of flute-sound. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series September 19th.—Lying by the lake yesterday afternoon, with my eyes shut, while the waves and sunshine were playing together on the water, the quick glimmer of the wavelets was perceptible through my closed eyelids. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. The stream to which Feathertail led him was bordered by drooping ferns; it was so clear that it might have been a lady's mirror but for the tiny wavelets rippling from side to side. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories A puff of wind sets a shallow pond in wavelets. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark The sea was wonderfully calm to-day—placid and tranquil as some inland lake, and edged with baby wavelets which came creeping tentatively upward to curl over on the sand like a fringe of downy feathers. The Vision of Desire Below the wavelets lapped the shingle with melodious rhythm. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories They reached down under the dancing wavelets and loosened the nooses. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range The chain-pier, as every body knows, runs intrepidly into the sea, which sometimes, in fine weather, bathes its feet with laughing wavelets, and anon, on stormy days, dashes over its sides with roaring foam. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family The chill wavelets of the Gogash River lapped now and then over my body, outstretched on the rocky bank. Autobiography of a Yogi In the faint light that hovered from the breaking of the wavelets he soon found his boat, and saw a tall man standing by her. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War Of those chill and roguish wavelets I took a draught, mindful of the day when long ago, by these same waters, an irreparable catastrophe overwhelmed our European civilization. Old Calabria The day which is before me is Pippa’s day, and not a day in the Strand: it is a “twelve-hours treasure”: I am as eager as Pippa “not to squander a wavelet of thee”. The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) But the incoming wavelets, babbling in unison, dissolve the myriads of laboriously lifted pellets, effacing the record of the passing of man. Tropic Days A tiny plume of vapor rises from the blue hollows about ten miles away, but so faint and indefinable that it may be only a breaking wavelet's crest caught by the cross wind. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Globular, oval, and sausage-shaped dollops of dark-grey mud were twirling and rolling on the fringe of listless wavelets. My Tropic Isle On this account I sat down sadly in a little cove of hill, whereto the soft breeze from the river came up, with a tone of wavelets, and a sprightly water-gleam. Erema — My Father's Sin I hear the innumerable wavelets spend themselves gently upon the shore, and die away to rise again. Prose Idylls, New and Old It rolls the wavelets carelessly as marbles to the shore; the red cattle redden the pool and stand in their own colour. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Nothing broke the stillness but the humming of the bees, the murmur of the distant wavelets, and the sound of Mitchell's caddie going on with his apple. The Clicking of Cuthbert The crescentic sweep of the wavelets rolled fragments of shell or coral in the mud, successive revolutions adding to the respective bulks by accretion. My Tropic Isle And the silvery murmur of the wavelets soothed the twinkling sleep of leaves. Erema — My Father's Sin Yet underneath their mist seemed to sparkle little points of light, as wavelets through a vapour which veils the surface of the sea. The Claim Jumpers A thin mist veiled the sea, and the little wavelets struck with a sorrowful sound against the rock below. Dawn Only seven wavelets had come in when I forgot to count, for there, right in the middle of the moon's path across the water, lay a lugger moored broadside to the beach. Moonfleet It was soft, melodious, like wavelets on a calm sea, hinting unseen reefs. Caesar Dies He remembered seeing the bright, sparkling wavelets and never forgot the impression they produced. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established In excellent accord these tenors and basses, so blameless in their living, lifted up their voices and sang they "would that the wavelets of ocean were wavelets of sparkling champagne!" The Boss of Little Arcady They have come in by every channel, and under every pretext—wavelets, forerunners of the tide. Towards the Goal The sunset saddens in the West, The stars peep through the skies; The weary day is hush'd to rest By gentlest zephyr sighs; The wavelets break upon the shore. Lays from the West The little islands fall asleep, The little wavelets wink. The Belted Seas |
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