It was invariably quiet in the square, and one--as now--could always hear the subdued ripple and murmur of the fountain in the centre.
The evening wind murmurs a dreamy duo with the ripple of the stream running at the foot of the garden, and now and then is heard the heavy foot-fall of a peasant returning from his work to the village.
Arrived at the water whose musical ripple had guided her steps, she removed her shoes and placed them beside a tree.
A puff from the land filled the sails, and the ripple of the water at the stern was just audible.
Even the ground-swell has lessened, and the breakers on the bar look like the ripple of a wash-tub.
Hirsch went on screaming all alone behind the half-closed jalousies while the sunshine, reflected from the water of the harbour, made an ever-running ripple of light high up on the wall.
General Montero had risen with a jingle of steel scabbard and a ripple of glitter on his gold-embroidered breast; a heavy sword-hilt appeared at his side above the edge of the table.
Estenega sat at the right of his hostess, and that trained daughter of the salon kept the table in a light ripple of conversation, sparkling herself, without striking terror to the hearts of her guests.
Immense forests rose on every side; an immemorial silence lay on all things, broken only by the gentle ripple of the waters.
The crowd rapidly thinned, till, in a few moments, where a roaring torrent of life had run, but an insignificant rippleflowed and eddied.
Inside is a murmur of many voices, a ripple of laughter, a rustle of silken stuffs, a scent of violets.
What would electrify Newport, Bar Harbor, even Narragansett Pier, will not create even a ripple of excitement at Trouville.
She heard the ripple of running water from an unseen fountain somewhere, and the intermittent murmur of voices in a room close by, but there is a silence that broods above such sounds, and this it was that Evadne felt.
He saw it sparkle in the sunshine, he heard it ripple along its banks, he felt the slow and dreamy motion of the boat it bore; and his mind was filled with unaccustomed thought, and a strange yearning which he did not understand.
At that moment the band struck up the music for the cotillion, and the mass of colours shifted in dazzling movement, as, amid the rustle of silks and the ripple of laughter, the dance commenced.
The silence of surprise held its own for a moment, then was broken by a just audible ripple of merriment which swept the sea of faces like the wash of a wave.
A pebble makes a ripple in a placid lake, while a rock falling from the side of a mountain disappears in an instant in the ocean.
The mountains are all around us, to shut out the world, and the gentle waters ripple at our feet.
As their lips met lingeringly, a little breeze that had wandered from the desert shifted a ripple or two on the sand-waves about their feet, and died away like a sigh in the fine fret of the kikar trees above the unseen tents.
Sometimes a whole afternoon would go slowly by, filled with the sounds and sweet smells of the woods, and not a ripple would break the dimples of the stream before me.
Had not the water been shallow I should never have found it; for they are the most wonderful of swimmers, making no rippleon the surface, and not half the disturbance below it that a fish of the same weight makes.
The light birch swung up beside mine, a deep water-dimple just under the curl of its bow, and a musical ripple like the gurgle of water by a mossy stone--that was the only sound.
Then roll in a blanket with your feet to the blaze, And the croak of the frogs and the ripple that plays Will lull you to sleep with music as sweet As that of the song when the angels you greet!
There we children, bare-footed, would wander to play, And wade in the branch that flowed on its way Through the meadows and fields with current so fleet, And a gurgle and ripple that sounded so sweet!
Raymond's hand went up amid a ripple of applause from the pupils, who seemed glad to have a voter in their ranks.
The engraver has marked by a ripple at the vessel's bows the strength and swiftness with which she stems the stream.
The history of man, therefore, is but a short ripple in the ocean of time.
He was considerably taken aback as he entered the room to hear a ripple of laughter, and the boy with a radiant face, sitting upright in bed, who, the day before, had not been able to raise his head from the pillow.
And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the longripple washing in the reeds.
And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Only a gentle ripple crossed the surface of the lake, for almost no air at all was stirring.
Apparently he heard no sound, and neither he nor Rob could detect any ripple on the water showing that the moose was going to undertake escape by swimming.
And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: 'I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: 'I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
The songs of birds, the rustle of trees, the ripple of the brook at the foot of the meadows, and the murmur of the sea, all seem to float together through the nest of man, making it drowsy with pleasure.
Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her life and ebbed out of it for ever.
The ripple had left no traces behind; the wave had strewn at her feet fragments torn from the unknown.
It is also important to recognize that the multiplier effects generated by the expenditures in all of the above examples ripple through the regional and State economies.
Such gentle breezes as were blowing produced only the slightest ripple on the surface.
Scarcely a ripple was to be seen as the boat sped forward.
