Ripples
['rɪpl]
Examples
- There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If we throw a pebble into a quiet pool (Fig. 90), waves or ripples form and spread out in all directions, gradually dying out as they become more and more distant from the pebble. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- One after another, the voices of business or pleasure died away; all on the boat were sleeping, and the ripples at the prow were plainly heard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If the water in a pond is absolutely still, we get a clear, true image of the trees, but if there are ripples on the surface, the reflection is blurred and distorted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The tiny ripples of the lake were warm and clear, they lifted their boat on to the bank, and looked round with joy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is plainly parted and drawn back over her ears, and the line of it ripples naturally as it crosses her forehead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The waves acted exactly like ripples that radiate from a stone when it strikes the water. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The little spark of temper dissolved in sarcasm, and eddied over her countenance in the ripples of a mocking smile. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At that time Pitt, in that country, arranged a cylinder with combs or ripples which tore off the heads of the grain-stalks and discharged them into a box on the machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There was the same rich, full, dark eye, with its long lashes; the same ripples of silky black hair. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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