Rippling

Examples

• Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She moved her head under his hand and smiled up at him and he felt the thick but silky roughness of the cropped head rippling between his fingers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It comes of flowing on so quiet, and of that there rippling at the boat's head making a sort of a Sunday tune. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mary had recovered, and she spoke with a suppressed rippling under-current of laughter pleasant to hear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling, in the sun-light. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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