Waves

Examples

• The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The darkness seemed to be swaying in waves across his mind, great waves of darkness plunging across his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• An echo is caused by the reflection of sound waves at some moderately even surface, such as the wall of a building. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My father slept in the cabin; and I lay on the deck, looking at the stars, and listening to the dashing of the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Ten yokes of oxen dragging a boat with sails out of the sea in the morning with the line of the small waves breaking on the beach. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Tainter, who in 1886 patented in the United States means of cutting or engraving the sound waves in a solid body. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is compared to the wavelets produced by a stone dropped in w ater, only that in the case of sound the waves are not confined to one plane. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We were soon on board, and within the hour the white city and the pleasant shores of Spain sank down behind the waves and passed out of sight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Two years thereafter, Mr. Emile Berliner of Washington had invented the _gramophone_, which consists in etching on a metallic plate the record of voice waves. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They are sent out through this magnetic field, and follow the earth’s curvature, in the same way that tidal waves follow the ocean’s surface. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The sending of the wireless message requires a source of production of the electro-magnetic waves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hardly had the boat left the ship, when, caught by a huge wave, she capsized, and the waves were black with shrieking masses of humanity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When the nature and laws of the waves of sound became fully known a great field of inventions was opened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Professor Hertz proved in 1888 that a spark, or disruptive discharge of electricity, caused electro-magnetic waves to radiate away in all directions through the ether. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The effect was as a sea breaking into song with all its waves. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• First, there is the image of the waves, which serves for a sort of scheme or plan of the book. Plato. The Republic.
• Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Concentrating my mind upon the massive lock I hurled the nine thought waves against it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She lifted her heavy eyes and saw him lapse suddenly away, on a sudden, unknown tide, and the waves broke over her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As soon as the waves cease, the hammer gives its last rap, and the tube is left in the decohered condition ready for the next transmission of waves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But for a long time we did not see any lights, nor did we see the shore but rowed steadily in the dark riding with the waves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Then came the hour in which the waves of suffering shook her too thoroughly to leave any power of thought. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The old housekeeper, with a gracious severity of deportment, waves her hand towards the great staircase. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The locks are so finely adjusted that the doors are released by the action of a certain combination of thought waves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The electric or etheric waves thereby set up are detected and received by another special form of apparatus more or less distant, without any intervening wires or conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had just been for a row on the river, and the sun that netted the little waves with gold seemed to have caught her in its meshes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Editor: Quentin