The hour of sunset approached,--the last sunset that I should behold, shining in golden glory on the sheetedfoam of the Falls.
The contrast was almost as great, to her former self, as between a placid silver lake, and the foam of the torrent sparkling and flashing with rainbows.
And all the while the water becomes a thicker and more turbid green; the wake looks more and more ochreous, the foam ropier and yellower.
The warm air has a sickly heaviness, like the air of a swamp; the water shows olive and ochreous tones alternately;--the foamis yellow in our wake.
There is a painting in the west wrought of cloud-colors,--a dream of high carmine cliffs and rocks outlying in a green sea, which lashes their bases with a foam of gold.
Over it, down one green furrow in its brow, tumbles the rolling foam of a cataract, like falling smoke, to be caught below in a succession of moss-covered basins.
It was getting dark, and a feeling of despair began to creep over the seaman's heart as he gazed round the wide expanse of water, on which nothing was to be seen except the white foam that crested the rising billows.
A huge wave lifted the vessel on its crest and flung her further on the shore, where she remained firmly fixed, while the waves dashed in foam around her and soon began to break her up.
On came the floating castle, the white foam dashing from her bows, and the torn sails and ropes flying from her masts as she surged over the billows and loomed through the driving spray.
For two seed-times only field work was to be impossible on account of the Assyrian occupation, but it was to foam itself away, like a winter torrent, before a third season for sowing came round.
God lets a true heart dare much in speech; for He knows that the sputter and foam prove that 'the heart's deeps boil in earnest.
In other places, torrents came tumbling from crag to crag, dashing into foam and spray, and making tremendous din and uproar.
Within the pool itself were broad flakes of white foam floating upon the water; but this was not in the water, but above it, on one of the boulders; and all the more conspicuous from the black colour of the rock.
He make 'im 'pearance in defoam ob de catrack out yonner.
The two were in the roaring rapids now, and the canoe was jumping through the foam like a race-horse.
II A moon of exquisite whiteness silvering the world, making shadows on the water as though it were sunlight and the daytime, giving a spectral look to the endless array of poplar trees on the banks, glittering on the foam of the rapids.
Not to see thee thus did I spur my steed into foam soon as I learned the news.
Then down he splashed with a sullen roar, leaving a red foam on the white.
He plied the willow rod and urged the panting horse on, until it was white with foam and laboured a little in its gait.
His face was livid, and a white foam had gathered on his lips.
These they filled with some sort of liquor, probably a native beer, judging from the foam that spilled over the sides.
The mug fell onto his lap and gushed its amber and foam over his legs.
The most characteristic property of saponins is that they form colloidal solutions in water which produce a soapy foam when agitated, and are peculiarly toxic, especially to frogs and fishes.
Were those white spots that danced before his eyes a lather of foam on the animal's flanks?
As they ploughed through the foam together, the tug was frequently obliged to ease-steam and give herself time to recover from the shock of those heavy cross seas.
They both clung to the wall, and gazed intently out to sea, where there was just light enough to show the black waves heaving wildly up against the dark sky, and the foam gleaming in lurid patches everywhere.
When the anchor was reached, a small portion of the foresail was set, and then, cutting the cable with one blow of a hatchet, away they went like the scudding foam right over the boiling shallows on the spit of sand.
It was a new sensation to these men to rush thus madly between two walls of foam eight or ten feet high!
He resolved, however, to make the attempt the first favourable opportunity that should offer; and while the resolve was forming in his small brain his little brows frowned sternly at the foam on the Nora's cutwater.
But when, on our nearer approach, I saw the mighty stretch of turbulent breakers rolling in mountains of snowy foam across the river's mouth, I began to understand that the passage through that would mean considerable danger.
Not many seconds elapsed before he was alone, striking furiously at everything in his way, while the foam flew from his gaping mouth.
It was so heavy that the experiment was successfully tried of scooping up drinkable water off the sea-surface, which was like a mill-pond for its level, although all a-foam with the falling torrent.
Illustration: A huge sea rose between us, hiding her from view, and when we soared on the crest of the next one she was gone like a foam flake.
In the whirl of weltering foam left by her sudden exit, the droghers danced like mad things, all having been cut adrift as the yelling crowd sprang from the sinking ship.
Some of them were, of course, compelled to work right over the bows, where, as she plunged along, the boiling foam now and then surged right over their heads.
Torrents of water, like the fall of a sea, were lashed into foam as they fell, and all torn into gleaming fragments by innumerable flashes flying in every conceivable direction.
A huge sea rose between us, hiding her from view, and when we soared on the crest of the next one, she was gone like a foam flake.
The shavings on top of the pyre were lighted and then the wood caught fire and a brilliant light illumined the cliff, the shingle and the foam of the waves as they broke on the beach.
The waves followed each other close, rolling in as high as mountains, scattering the foam as they broke.
Detached rocks stood upright afar, a collar of foam girding their bases, and repeating in its whiteness the plumage of a countless multitude of gulls that restlessly hovered about.
Bare lies the beach; ships hide the sea from view, And strong arms lash the foam and sweep the sparkling blue.
Waist-high, a man with human face is he; All else, a fish; beneath his savage breast The white foam roars before him.
Woes in store, Wars, savage wars, I see, and Tiber foam with gore.
Last, in the dark-blue Scylla ploughs the foam Cloanthus, whence thy house, Cluentius of Rome.
Down drop the sails; in order ranged, each crew Flings up the foam to heaven, and sweeps the sparkling blue.
Your eyes pursue the bells of foam Wash'd, eddying, from this bank, their home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
