It seemed almost as if the whaleboat were shaking the brine from her shining sides as she righted herself on the crest of some great wave, poising there for a few brief seconds, then plunging out of sight.
Their frail craft was picked up on the crest of a wave and hurled with mighty force against the side of the ship, the smaller boat instantly going to pieces.
There is the pennon borne by a gentleman in hood and gown; the helm and crest borne by a pursuivant; the coat of arms borne by a herald, Clarence, King at Arms.
But there are trees for shade, and a good deal of grass on these extensive downs where great armies can manoeuvre and march past the Emperor as he sits enthroned under a bower on that hill-crest overlooking all.
The water ran over these steps, and was sometimes only a few inches in depth on the crest of each fall, where it had to descend some eight or ten inches at most.
After a good hard pull up a winding road we got to the top of the pass of this "little Switzerland," as it is called, and here was a tunnel on the very crest of the watershed.
The depression or trough of this was about two feet below, and the crest four feet above the level, so the height of the wave was about six feet.
I felt I must have known it from eternity, but it caught me on the crest of my fury, it overwhelmed me in a torrent of mad shame and wild jealousy.
Here and there were groups of Scotch firs, and the crest of the hill was wooded with oaks and beeches and a fringe of larches, with here and there a silvery black poplar.
It was nine o'clock in the morning before the van-guard of the French army made its appearance on the crest of the southern ridge.
The strawberries appear in the crest of the Hays on the keystone of the courtyard archway, a connecting link with the Frasers, from whom it passed to the Hays of Yester, in 1312, with the daughter of the Patriot.
Swift to her warm waiting breast Longing to be possessed Leaps 'neath his billowy crest Her Lover brave.
We gained thecrest of the hills along with the rest of the column.
But it is a short-lived joy; at least ours was, for the victory had been costly and there were sad gaps in the ranks of all the regiments as we reformed on the crest of the hills.
The whitethroat sings withcrest erect, and attitudes of warning and defiance.
The high barometer travels like the crest of a sea, and the low barometer like the trough.
It has the crest of the cedar-bird, the same yellow border to its tail, but is marked with white on its wings, as if a snowflake or two had adhered to it from the northern cedars and pines.
Higher and higher across the sky-line cut the dark crest of the island as the freighter steamed valiantly ahead.
I forgot to be afraid, in the delight of the warm wind that fanned our cheeks, of the moonbeams that on the crest of every ripple were splintered to a thousand dancing lights.
In doing so I told him that, on our right, along the crest of the hill on which the convoy was travelling, I had an infantry brigade.
Some of us thought it would be to the right, and we were following the crest of the gully on that side.
On their left were wooded hills, and on their right a little village on the slope of a hill, upon whose crest stood a church.
Over the heights, and along the crest of those cliffs, were flying great flocks of sea-gulls, which kept up one incessant chorus of harsh, discordant screams.
In an hour its loftycrest had ascended far up into the sky.
We eventually reached the crest of the first range of hills at Enab, and descending into the valley on the opposite side we entered an area which in comparison with the deadly wastes left miles behind seemed like paradise.
When the bombardment began the enemy could be seen along the crest opposite the front line in twos and threes (total about 150).
Just as every one gave up hope Gearing and his camels appeared over the crest in front.
We pitched our bivouacs on the crest of a ridge just behind the old front line, and to the left of Becourt Wood.
An attempt to capture the crest had only partially succeeded, and about fifty yards of the German trench was occupied by English troops.
In the afternoon the enemy was seen to be digging in on the crest from which he had doubled forward earlier in the day, and by 6.
In addition, rapid fire from enemy field artillery raked the men as they appeared over the crest in front of the final objective.
Not to be outdone, the Civil Service Rifles planted their crest in privet hedging alongside the others.
Some months previously the general run of the German front trench had been along the crest of a ridge, the English line being parallel and about 100 yards below.
Rising magnificently at the crestof a bleak expanse of snow, the embrasured battlements, silhouetted against the sunset sky, might well have suggested to a beholder grim thoughts of mediaeval strongholds and robber barons.
A vanquished warrior is giving up his stone-sword and his spears to his conqueror, who is tearing the plumed crest from his head.
By the time the evening had fairly begun to close in upon us, we crossed the crest of a hill and had a dim view of a valley below us, but there were no signs of Chalma or its convent.
Male -- Upper part grayish blue, with prominent crest on head reaching to the nape.
Chin black; crest conspicuous; breast lighter than the back, and shading into yellow underneath.
Among the French Canadians they are called Recollet, from the color of their crest resembling the hood of the religious order of that name.
The barouche drew up on the crest of the Levee, and I saw the lady directing some inquiry to a bystander, who immediately pointed to our Captain.
With all his swagger I could see that his crest fell a little at the general burst of laughter that my somewhat bizarre remark had called forth.
Fairfax drew up his army behind the crest of a line of hills, so that the enemy could not see their numbers till he was committed to an attack.
About seven o'clock the Russians advanced, their guns opening fire over the heads of the infantry: Pennefather very wisely pushed his men forwards into the hollow to support his pickets, occupying the crest in front of his camp with artillery.
A considerable body of infantry was held in reserve, but the mass of it occupied the crest of the slopes landward from where the cliffs cease, for about two miles, the cavalry behind the right of the line.
The elaboration of the crest and fossa evidently is associated with an increase in size of the superficial masseter muscle, which enlarges and provides increased power for the propalinal type of mastication.
The crest on the ridge begins at the base of the angular process and terminates slightly anterior to the plane of the lower premolar.
M1; sagittal crest lacking owing to impressions of temporal muscles remaining separated (even in old adults); zygomata slender, and without platelike expansion at lateral angle.
A high crest has evolved independently in both modern lineages, Thomomyini and Geomyini.
A' Enamel lacking on posterior walls of M1 and M2; pronounced sagittal crest developed in adults of both sexes by union of temporal impressions at middorsal line; zygomata stout and wide, with lateral angle expanded into broad plate.
From there into the valley led one road which was little more than a narrow defile; then it wound away to the right front over the crest which the Germans held.
Coming back into the village, we found the Artillery had advanced through the village and from the top of the crest were shelling the departing Germans on the other side of the hill.
On breasting a hill about two miles from the last halt, we were again called to the halt, and the Artillery, brought up from behind, opened out on each side of the road and the crest of the hill.
At the rear and facing the crest held by the enemy was another and smaller hill thickly wooded.
So by the time we had reached the crest again, the enemy had flown and the Guards were not required.
On crossing a narrow track of road near the crest of the hill we were joined by the C.
The situation was a good one, on rising ground; and the tents and baggage were piled on the crest of the hill, where the banner of De Montfort floated by the side of his vacated litter.
They jumped for life, as the lugger rose on the snowy crest of a breaker, and not a man missed his mark.
And it is fine to see on a stormy day the splendid way in which they are handled, visible one moment on the crest and the next hidden in the trough of a wave, or launched or beached on the open shingle in some towering sea.
Nevertheless, as he entered the cloisters that surrounded the Court of the Gentiles, his proud crest sank, his step grew slower and less assured.
