I exclaimed, when the huge billow showed itself through the night, rushing towards the mole.
It was to see a huge billow sweep the breakwater from end to end.
As doth the billow there upon Charybdis, That breaks itself on that which it encounters, So here the folk must dance their roundelay.
Blast and billow may hush themselves if they will," replied the peremptory Udaller, "but that will not I.
Even in calm weather the swell of the big ocean gathers into a huge billow and bursts in foam upon the coral islands.
He was ill at ease, and clutched the seat when the billow rolled under them, raising the stern of the boat so high that it seemed as if about to be thrown completely over, but the wave passed on, and they fell back into the trough of the sea.
She was standing in the billow of leaves, a lonely-looking little girl, her face paler than it had been even on that day of the wind-hunt.
But when the sun showed that it was noon, Ivra's steps grew slower and slower, dragged and dragged, until at last she stood still in a billow of leaves.
Now and then, when a billowof unusual size had slipped harmlessly by, he gratefully and almost joyously drew her close to him, uttering a few syllables of cheer.
Every one of the hundred waves which made up each billow rapidly tossed and wallowed itself to death.
Love is but lust, if soul be only breath; Who would put forth onebillow from the shore If the great sea be--Death?
The helmsman is dashed away and rolled forward headlong; her as she lies the billow sends spinning thrice round with it, and engulfs in the swift whirl.
These hang on the wave's ridge; to these the yawning billow shows ground amid the surge, where the sea churns with sand.
Streams, sweep on, Nor let one billow of our heaven-blest Isle Toss in the fanning wind a humbler plume.
In that the former See endless billows Heaving before them; Us doth the billow Lift up and swallow, So that we perish.
And what used to bear thy name, When upon yon spot it stood, Like a rolling billow came, Hast'ning on to join the flood.
Their wild cries for the help that could not be given them pierced the ears of the others, who did not know but that the next billow would treat them in like manner.
When thebillow had spent its force, the decks were clear.
In such cases the question of life and death is balanced thus: if the wave carries the vessel on the rock, she breaks on it and is lost; if the billow retires before the ship has touched, she is carried back, she is saved.
The operation is simple: first the flux, then the reflux; a wave advances, a billow returns.
The Matutina, escaped from the Caskets, sank and rose from billow to billow.
The faith, even the hope of Job seems at times on the point of giving way; he struggles like a drowning man when the billow goes over him, but with the rising of his head his courage revives.
An unrulier billow than usual, yet more masterless in its Titan play, is hurling itself with a colossal thud and bang against the causeway; and Elizabeth waits till its clamour is subsided before she speaks.
On their right as they walk, with the wind officiously helping them from behind, is a world of dancing sapphire, each blue billow white-tipped.
Streams, sweep on, Nor let one billowof our heaven-blest Isle[880] Toss in the fanning wind a humbler plume.
But Angels round her pillow Kept watch, a viewless band; 380 And, billow favouring billow, She reached the destined strand.
Already the distant roar of the billow was heard, proving that it had begun to break.
As the billow came on, the bubbling, leaping, and seething of its crest was apparent both to eye and ear.
The hollow of the rocks received the first billow with a thump and a slush, and a rush of pointed hillocks in a fury to find their way back again, which failing, they spread into a long white pool, taking Mary above her pretty ankles.
Old Dukie drove on with all his might and main, and the stout spirit which engenders strength, till he came to a white wall reared before him, twice as high as his snow-capped head, and swirling like a billow of the sea with drift.
But no, the boat's head again turned towards the opening, and gliding down the billow we dashed through it, and saw on either side a comparatively smooth lagoon extending between the reef and the shore.
