Surges
[sɝdʒ]
Examples
- Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But wide as pathless was the space That lay our lives between, And dangerous as the foamy race Of ocean-surges green. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Save him from danger, for he is daring, my lover, He rides the surges of battle as thou ridest the flying clouds. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I breasted the surges, and flung them from me, as I would the opposing front and sharpened claws of a lion about to enfang my bosom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She had never seen her husband in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like a reed in the surges of such passions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Never did fall of any prime minister at court occasion wider surges of sensation than the report of Tom's fate among his compeers on the place. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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