| 单词 | ground swell |
| 例句 | On the side of a ground swell lay Jello, his body torn in bloody shreds, his face contorted. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The fishing-boats are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z One thing is certain: there is a macro ground swell of demand for non-toxic pesticide free produce whatever the growing and distribution methods involved are. When Community-Supported Agriculture Is Not What It Seems 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z He told : "There are efforts being made to breathe life back into it... there was over 20,000 signatures to the petition. There's been a big ground swell of support." AUDIO: Macfayden hints at Ripper Street return 2014-01-07T16:15:19Z I'm sure he's pleased at the ground swell -- everybody knows his name now. Drummer says Jim Morrison never exposed himself 2010-12-03T02:36:00Z The observatory said it detected increased earthquakes and changes in patterns of ground deformation — or the way the ground swells, sinks or cracks — at Kilauea’s summit early Thursday morning. Magma moving at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano; eruption uncertain 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “That transcends any idea that people bought you off. It’s a mandate. It’s ground swell of support,” he said. Party support, populist scorn follow Murphy’s contributions 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Despite the ground swell of evidence, though, women remain woefully underrepresented on corporate boards worldwide. EYVoice: 3 Factors That Improve Gender Diversity On Boards Globally 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z "There are efforts being made to breathe life back into it... there's been a big ground swell of support," he . Ripper Street resurrected on demand 2014-02-26T11:21:11Z The sea, viewed from an altitude of three thousand feet, appeared as smooth as glass, although in reality there was a long rolling ground swell. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z There had long been among the people an uneasy and restless feeling, such as is the precursor of revolution—a ground swell, which sometimes comes before as well as after a storm. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z His team is hopeful that a grassroots ground swell will be enough to put him over the top in the next big primary. Santorum's Momentum Meets Romney's Money in Illinois 2012-03-16T12:05:36Z Were it not for the harbours—innumerable and snugly sheltered from the winds and ground swell of the open—there would be no navigating the waters of that region. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z Standing towards the shore, we quickly shoaled our water, and found a ground swell increasing. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z After a meeting of conference commissioners and university presidents on Monday, Hancock said the leaders are still in favor of the bowls and he’s “not hearing any ground swell of support” for a playoff system. BCS officials will replace former Penn State president as oversight committee chair soon 2011-11-15T00:18:21Z Sailed in the evening, but were becalmed in the offing, and left there with a long ground swell, which made Jane little better than dead. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z We need a ground swell and perhaps that could start with a high profile “summit” meeting that includes prominent leaders like Ravitch, Darling-Hammond, and Sahlberg and, perhaps, some enlightened policy makers as well. Transporting Finland?s education success to U.S. 2011-10-22T11:00:00Z The impulse for it came over the South in 1880 like a great ground swell, translating itself into a thousand activities and ramifications. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z The ground swell inside the lagoon was too great to allow the yawl to run alongside the usual jetty. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The tangles and smaller Fuci which grow abundantly on the littoral zone break the force of the waves or diminish the effects of ground swell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Here and there I passed a few courting couples; the hum of distant London and the rumbling of trains was like the ground swell of a sea, but peace brooded over everything. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z With a ground swell and a sinking temperature always look for squalls. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z On revisiting the earth I felt in every place a great ground swell of national feeling. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Because after these hurricanes, although the open sea is comparatively calm, a heavy ground swell sets in on shore. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z We're hoping there will be a ground swell of support for our proposals. A souk for Bradford? Grand idea, bring it on! 2011-07-11T16:09:40Z It was like a great ground swell, and so much water had that young giant displaced, when he removed his bulk I am sure the depth of the creek was perceptibly lowered. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z A ground swell cast him again near the vender of prize packages. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Groups of the first kind stand in the same sort of relation to those of the second as a high but choppy sea to a ground swell. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego 2011-04-17T02:00:02.907Z Now he was in the grip of the ground swell. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Bill’s canoes pushed swiftly ahead over the long ground swell until three quarters of an hour later, the narrow entrance to the bay was in sight. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z The ground swell came up from below with a very mournful noise, but the air seemed to be empty, and every beat of the foot on the soft turf sounded near and large. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The deck was deserted, the wheel swung idle, and the Pole Star rose and fell with the ground swell which lifted the ice floes and packed them upon the shelving beach. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The sea was in frequent commotion; heavy ground swells drove masses of water hissing and foaming against the cliffs. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z A luminous idea of the nature of these two classes of variation may be gained by conceiving of the motion of a ship, floating on an ocean affected by a long ground swell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The gorge was all in shadow, the wind fallen away, and only the long sweeping ground swells caught and mirrored the red glow of the sun now almost at the horizon line. Rockhaven He hated the school; he hated the street that led to it, with a quiet ground swell of hatred. Ewing\\'s Lady Off the jetty lay the Siamese tramp, still heaving in the ground swell, and we came down to the edge to stare across at her. Where the Pavement Ends The long ground swell of the Pacific, marching aimlessly toward some unknown shore, lifted it steadily up and down, giving the boat the appearance of moving. The Lost Warship The ground swells greenest o’er the labouring moles. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Below him, where the rock-walled gorge broadened to meet the ocean, the undulating ground swells leisurely tossed the rockweed and brown kelpie upward, as they swept over the sloping rocks. Rockhaven The yacht rode smoothly, slipping forward over the long, even ground swell, and he turned with immeasurable emotion to the woman beside him. Wild Oranges In the rarified air, our bow lifted slightly, like a ship riding a gentle ground swell. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 There was a heavy ground swell on, showing that there had recently been a blow somewhere, and the schooner had just breeze enough to give her steerage way, with nothing to spare. Marcy The Blockade Runner Behind this line, two or three hundred yards, was another line just beyond a small ground swell, where the Austrians placed themselves in fairly deep trenches. The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources The harbour water was still; and the open––beyond the tickle rocks––was without a ripple or hint of ground swell. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys By Sunday noon the ground swell had driven some of the officers to deck chairs, while the others marshalled the troops on the rear deck for Divine service. From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade It bobbed up and down slowly on the long ground swell, not far from the smaller machine. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards On every side the landscape stretched monotonously away from him in low rolling dunes like the frozen ground swell of a crimson sea—dunes covered with vegetation of a kind never seen upon Earth. Devil Crystals of Arret The sun sinks beyond the vast expanse of open, wide, and illimitable sea, heaving with a deep and mysterious ground swell as the long waves roll shorewards. The Cornish Riviera Only the long ground swells barely lifted their boat and made the shadows of the trees along the shore wave in fantastic undulations. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast "It's a flood tide to-day and with the big ground swell she hasn't a chance." El Diablo To make matters still more unpleasant, a heavy ground swell began to set through the straits, and the squadron having fires drawn at the time we all found ourselves in the doldrums. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 "Then it means that bad weather is approaching," said Ross, who had had plenty of opportunities of observing the phenomenon of "ground swells" on the North Cornish coast. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War There was very little wind, and but a perceptible heave of the ground swell; so I was bothered at first only by the dense fog and the current. The Grain Ship That and the low rumble of the ground swells, breaking almost at his feet, were the only sounds. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast "The sea has a greasy look and this heavy ground swell is a portent." Blackbeard: Buccaneer Once more under way, they encounter a heavy ground swell; but the breeze is in their favour, and, with the sail set, they are able to keep steadily before it. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure The agony of mal de mer was hers now of full license, for the choppy sea was sustained on the bosom of a long ground swell, coming we knew not whence. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Since I had gone aloft the wind had hauled to the north and died down to a gentle breeze, which barely ruffled the very slight ground swell. The Grain Ship He looked out and ahead, and saw a large, white steam yacht resting quietly on the rolling ground swell, apparently waiting for the destroyer to creep up to her. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility He rehearsed his rise from tailor to President, and declared that a ground swell, an earthquake of popular support, was coming to him. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The note-book of an invalid for two days at sea, with a heavy ground swell, and the wind in the most favorable quarter, can scarcely be attractive. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Misdeeds of great and small degree are ranged together and displayed in parallel columns as common symptoms of a high tide of violence, a perfect ground swell of lawlessness. From Place to Place It was like the beating of a distant sea, with a ground swell presaging storm. The Long Roll The sea was as smooth as glass, save for a slight ground swell. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes The sound of the ground swell became louder and more threatening. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia His soul is still heaving with the ground swell of the storm, though the blasts come more fitfully, and are dying into calm. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms In exactly the same way the ground swells after heavy rain and rises a little, then it falls again and cracks when it becomes dry. Lessons on Soil Small moths flew in and out, and like a distant ground swell came the noise of the fevered town. The Long Roll "You see, there's a heavy ground swell on just now, and a chap what don't mind his helm is sure to get his spars shivered." An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith It was like the sound, dull and heavy, of the ground swell that precedes the storm. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia We presently had the open sea before us, with a line of reefs a few hundred yards out against which the lazy ground swell was breaking in a line of white. The White Invaders Fog had concealed the approach of the English, but such a ground swell was raging over the reefs as threatened any ship with instant destruction. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The gulls had gone to rest, the sea almost so, for the ground swell only washed the island's sandy shore and idly rocked the sloop as she rode secure at anchor. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England The ground swell made the Vindictive roll and racked her breaking gangways terribly. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas When the weather cleared on April 27, the ocean was turgid, plainly tinged river-color by inland waters; but ground swell of storm and tide rolled across the shelving sandbars. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The craft, which had been pitching and tossing under the influence of a ground swell, became more steady and quiet once it left the surface. Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder It was shortly after the meal, partaken of while the little boat was pitching and tossing on long ground swell, that the younger lad, who had stationed himself in the bow, called out: "Land ho!" Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island I should simply laugh at the worst ground swell he can produce. The Simpkins Plot Presently Hazel could look away over an area of woodland undulating like a heavy ground swell at sea. North of Fifty-Three For the schooner was pitching and tossing on a ground swell, that seemed to presage a change of weather. The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand In the rarefied air, our bow lifted slightly, like a ship riding a gentle ground swell. Brigands of the Moon The sea went down, and the boat rocked idly on a ground swell. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 He was big, breezy, careless, quick, and coming of an aquatic ancestry, oceanic in his sort; even his walk reminded one of a ground swell. The President A novel But deep down within him was there not a voice that, like the ground swell of the ocean, murmured ever one thing, unwearied, persistent? Bella Donna A Novel They fared once into Queen Charlotte Sound and rode the great ground swell that heaves up from the far coast of Japan to burst against the rocky outpost of Cape Caution. Poor Man's Rock Rollers are of the nature of a violent ground swell, and possibly the worst of them may be due to the propagation of an earthquake wave. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 As there is a heavy ground swell running, the canoes are bobbing up and down like corks alongside. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Here was evidence of the first ground swell of immigration to the United States whose subsequent waves in sixty years swept to America one-half of the entire population of the Little Green Isle. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making The riders climbed steadily now, no longer engulfed in the ground swell of land waves. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Sometimes the reform was in a trough of the sea of public opinion, sometimes on the crest of a billow, and then again on the bosom of a giant ground swell. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist With a leaden sky overhead, and a leaden sea about it, the boat gently rose and fell with the ground swell. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him The quarter of a century that followed the Union was marked by almost perpetual disturbance; but this it was said was merely the natural ground swell of agitation which followed a great reform. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question What from above had looked as level as a floor now turned into a tremendously wide and placid ground swell. African Camp Fires He took refuge on one of the rocky ledges inside, but in his haste he forgot to secure his boat, and the ground swell of the sea washed it out of the cave. From John O'Groats to Land's End And already from these independent and uncorrupted sons and daughters of freedom had started the deep ground swell which was to lift the level of Northern public opinion on the question of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Late the next afternoon he struck the dust of the drag in the ground swells of a more broken country. A Man Four-Square The slope eased off, dipping and rising no more than a ground swell; and by-and-by I was on a level track that ran straight as a stretched ribbon and was reasonable to my tired feet. At a Winter's Fire The surf only moaned to-day over Gull Rocks, for there was little ground swell. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper There, not three miles off, rolling in the ground swell, lay a great fleet, the searchlights sweeping the heavens and sea; the signal lanterns twinkling. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Once when we reached a small hill dominating a village, I could see the cloud of smoke below me agitated like the ground swell of the ocean. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life When there's a ground swell," he said, "the quicksand will pull a man down quicker than hell. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories At length the sea exhibits symptoms of an approaching change, a ground swell sets in from the west, and the breeze towards sunset brings clouds and grateful showers. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 The vast democratic sea on which the Empire floats is influenced by currents, and agitated by ground swells which the Government discovers only by their effects. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 From the northeast a black, threatening cloud was moving slowly toward them, while the sails flapped idly as the Etta rolled to a heavy ground swell. Dick in the Everglades I've been about here before at this time o' year in a calm, with a ground swell and a sinkin' glass. The Firm of Girdlestone We are in the ground swell of the war. Helena As the launch under Dave's command lost headway, then lay idly on the light ground swell, the other launch circled about her, then came up under the port quarter. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz The whole surface resembles that of a heavy ground swell of the sea; nearly all the fields declining gently in different directions. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's I recall vividly that there seemed to be a sort of ground swell between my desk and the blackboard, so that I never could walk confidently and evenly from one to the other. The Brown Study My recent adventure had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the persons around: and I learned that a ground swell had been observed along shore the preceding night. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 After some time, their own Esquimaux hinted that there was a ground swell under the ice. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V We laughed together like the best of friends, and I spoke again about the fishing grounds, and confessed that I had no fancy for a southerly breeze and a ground swell. The Country of the Pointed Firs The fishing boats are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Dracula When by any chance I imagined your eyes were turned my way the ground swell became a tidal wave. The Brown Study The "Swanhilda" lifted and rolled slowly, majestically on the ground swell of the Pacific, the water hissing and boiling under her forefoot, her cordage vibrating and droning in the steady rush of the trade winds. The Octopus : A story of California He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled himself up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island. The Jungle Book On three sides the ground swells a very little—the rise is not four feet. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West They were far out of sight of land in the morning and loafing south before the trade wind, with a heavy ground swell kicking them along from behind. Harrigan There also came to him the constant creaking of the dock, the slow dull recurrence of the ground swell against her bow. The Cruise of the Dry Dock The passage across this bay, feared by many experienced navigators on account of the heavy ground swell, did not give us any cause for anxiety at first. By Water to the Columbian Exposition It was as though a ground swell had set in toward distant, invisible shores. The Leopard Woman And so their lips played with the ripples of love, while their hearts were heaving with the ground swell of its tempest. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 A heavy ground swell still ran, but without the wind to roughen the surface and sharpen the crests, the big timber rode safely through the sea. Harrigan Cove is ye best to lie in as it entirely shuts in sea gates and moreover has little ground swell to which both other coves are subject. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The weather was calm enough now, save for a heavy ground swell. The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar This is a very different business from getting out the sweeps to pull a nobby five miles against the strength of the ebb, with a heavy ground swell running.' Hyacinth Circling this shore we successfully passed inside the line of breakers and soon met the long ground swell of the Pacific, while Seal Bay stretched for many miles inland on the other side. American Big Game in Its Haunts Not many hours will elapse before you will see the ground swell like a molehill; an eruption will ensue, and you will be the happy possessor of a Stromboli of your own! Wonders of Creation And mind—when you hear a rumbling at the bottom of the sea, sailors will tell you that it is a ground swell; but now you know better. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Dancing tongues of flame shot through the darkness, as he swung through it, up and down, like a ship moved by a heavy ground swell. Old Rose and Silver A moment more and I heard the tide rips sing, and the ground swell murmur, as it had done in my childhood, when I had listened and wondered what it meant. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter It heaves in gentle undulations known as the ground swell, the result of storms perhaps a thousand miles distant, and breaks on the shore in surf. The Elements of Geology This was a ground swell, such as never moved in Denboro Bay. The Rise of Roscoe Paine The foundations of Property and Propriety are laid bare, twin rocks; Family Pride flounders to the surface, puffing and blowing and refusing to be comforted; Theology, vaguely ascetic, gets up a nasty ground swell. Howards End The foundations of Property and Propriety are laid bare, twin rocks; Family Pride flounders to the surface, puffing and blowing, and refusing to be comforted; Theology, vaguely ascetic, gets up a nasty ground swell.� Howards End The water is very shallow near the shore, and when the wind blows there is a heavy ground swell. The Naturalist on the River Amazons After much rain the ground swells, and as it cannot expand laterally, the surface rises; during dry weather it sinks again. The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits Loud murmurs began to arise at this, and the orator knew that the ground swell betokened the coming storm. We Two, a novel When next I thought of it and looked behind, nothing was there but the road we had come; it lay like a ship's wake across the huge ground swell of the earth. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains |
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