Upheaved in many a billowy mound The sea-like, naked turf arose, Where wandering flocks went nibbling round The mingled graves of friends and foes.
At break of day only her vane was visible to mark her billowy grave.
Thy streams that march in music to the sea, 'Mid Ocean's merry noise, his billowy laugh.
Their presence in the strait was believed to be the cause of its billowy restlessness and swift currents.
In many places it passes through vast stretches of prairie land, where, as far as the eye can reach, the country is like a billowy sea, being covered with grass.
Of course they had to make camp where night found them; and often it was far out on the billowy sea of grass, where they built their small fire in a hole dug in the ground, and spent the night in watchfulness and security.
Only overhead a few billowy clouds, the soft rush of the wind, a slight flush in the east, it was almost dawn.
There came a rough salt breeze from the sea, and it made me think ofbillowy sails and the days of my father's boundless youth, and of the harbor of long ago that had so gripped and molded him--as I felt mine now molding me.
And in that sparkling morning light, with billowy waves of sea green all around us, sudden snowy clouds of spray, we watched for a moment the skyscraper group, the homes of the Big Companies.
Ay, let him lift from the billowy drift His hoary, hagged form, And scowling stand, with his wrinkled hand Outstretching to the storm.
Behold where the billowy clouds flow by, And leave us alone in the clear gray sky!
On the one hand there is the billowy surface in which ellipsoidal or kidney-shaped masses, each with dimensions of from one to several feet, lie merged in one another, not unlike an irregular collection of sofa pillows.
Billowy surface of the salt crust on the central sink in the Lop Desert of central Asia (after Ellsworth Huntington).
Where the wheat waved, now the hillsides arebillowy with graves.
The river, at some distance, seems suspended in a sheet of billowy foam, and contrasted as it is, with the black frowning abyss into which it falls, it is an object of the highest interest.
And there amid the billowy swells Of rock-ribbed, cloud-capped earth, My fair and gentle Ida dwells, A nymph of mountain birth.
And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells, And ever joyful, as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells.
Spreading between these streams are the wondrous, beautiful prairies, Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine, Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas.
Worn out, Lilly sank on to a billowy white bed, on the gilded posts of which pale-blue satin bows were perched like strange and wonderful butterflies.
Through a billowy haze she beheld a flushed, puffy face with dishevelled hair falling about it from under a crooked hat, and two deeply marked lines running from mouth to chin.
The pond awoke, the water gurgled about the wheel, the tail-race was billowy with foam.
It thickened as it rose, and began to roll inbillowy volumes towards his camp.
We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests and billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance.
At his word She knelt, and unto God, with help of God, Uprushed the strength of prayer, as when the cloud Uprushes past some beetling mountain wall From billowy deeps unseen.
Born on Pelion height, so legend hoary relateth, Pines once floated adrift on Neptune billowy streaming On to the Phasis flood, to the borders Æætean.
Widely from each fair limb that footward-fallen apparel Drifts its lady before, in billowy salt loose-playing.
Behind the billowy mists of legend we caught from time to time a momentary glimpse of the gigantic figure of Jesus, as though lit up by a lightning-flash.
There was a bather of the species he, Who saw the little maid go toward the sea; Rushing to help her through the billowy swell, He set his sole upon the little shell, And heaped profanely phrased obloquy On Newport Beach.
High beyond the granite portal arched across, Like the gateway of some godlike giant's hold Sweep and swell the billowy breasts of moor and moss East and westward, and the dell their slopes enfold.
Low, slow-sloping, billowygreen hills, bare and smooth with square brown patches, stretched away to what seemed infinite distance.
Anderson's keen eyes swept from near at hand to far away, down the gentle, billowy slope and up the far hillside.
They crossed the road from the house, and, facing the west, had free prospect of the miles of billowy hills and the magnificent ordnance of the storm-clouds.
What a grand pyramid ofbillowy clouds towers above the storied Pari!
