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Example sentences for "great wave"

  • But the bow of the boat leaps high on a great wave, the rebounding waters hurl us back, and the peril is past.

  • Then she comes up again on a great wave, and down and up, then around behind some great rocks, and is lost in the mad, white foam below.

  • A great wave of red surged over the girl's thin face, her voice trembled with tenderness.

  • A great wave of love for Fanny came over him.

  • A great wave of love for God, and remorse for impatience and melancholy in her earthly lot, swept over her.

  • Their craft, with too much sail on, broached to on the crest of a great wave.

  • Right in front of the ship's bow it fell, and a great wave rose as it sank, and washed the ship back to the shore.

  • But on the third day there was a calm, and he saw the land from the top of a great wave, for the waves were yet high, close at hand.

  • The mighty bow loomed above the tiny chip of a boat, throwing off a great wave.

  • The boat rushed downward and struck the top of a great wave with a force that shook her.

  • He made a wild grab for it, but a great wave swept it beyond his reach.

  • On this particular day, as she lay back in her carriage, wrapped in costly furs, a great wave of misery and bitterness was sweeping over her heart.

  • Again a great wave of agitation shook the man from head to foot.

  • She had already battled through the great wave of pain, and was drifting beyond the boundaries of her earthly Refuge.

  • The sequel came the following week, when a great wave of pestilence, in the form of malignant typhoid fever, swept over the city.

  • A great wave of tender sympathy, swelled in my heart; blotting out all thoughts of self.

  • A great wave of land monopoly, rolled up by a large class of very shrewd, far-seeing capitalists, is even now sweeping across the continent.

  • A great wave of relief swept over Oliver to find that another besides himself was awake.

  • A great wave of fright swept over him, and he struggled vehemently to raise himself up to the edge of the hole again whence he had descended, but he was helpless, powerless.

  • Oliver felt a great wave of blinding hope sweep over him.

  • The blood surged up to his forehead in a great wave.

  • The blood rose in a great wave to Piers' forehead.

  • She saw the hot blood surge in a great wave to his forehead, and she quailed inwardly though outwardly she made no sign.

  • The seaman felt a great wave of joy rush over him.

  • A strange feeling of rest and content came over them until in a great wave of joy they all fell upon their knees and gave thanks.

  • Thus it was that Tannhaeuser realised, in a great wave of thankfulness, that his old life was still open to him, and not closed as Venus had said.

  • The East Wind and the South Wind clashed, and the stormy West, and the North, that is born in the bright air, rolling onward a great wave.

  • But so soon as we left that isle, thereafter presently I saw smoke and a great wave, and heard the sea roaring.

  • He bent toward the young girl as he said the words, and as Faith saw the eagerness in his face, a great wave of pity surged up within her.

  • I don't believe that anything would ever change her heart," she whispered to herself, and then a great wave of shame swept over her as she felt that she had questioned the power of the Almighty.

  • For a moment she was dazed and almost powerless to speak, then, as a great wave of color swept up to her very brow, she fairly hissed her answer in a scorching whisper.

  • A great wave of color purpled his heavy face, and instantly he was the same old tyrant, raging furiously at the creatures whom fate had made his victims.

  • A method of isolating rays of great wave-length by successive reflection was devised by H.

  • Their eyes met, a great wave of crimson suddenly dyed Keela's throat and face and swept in lovely tide to the brilliant turban.

  • A great wave of faintness swept over her.

  • A great wave of dizziness and burning nausea swept over Carl.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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