Billows
[biləuz]
Examples
- The sea, all of a sudden, began to roar and rise in billows, and there was a blow, as if all the artillery in the world had been at once discharged. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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.
- Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Below us rose and fell the billows of a buried sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Rosalie