The sound of a clear, high voice in a monotonous singsong now rang out behind him and came across the water with a distinctness that pierced and subdued all other sounds, even the beating of the ripples in his ears.
He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck.
The ripples rushing to the whipping carried a little edging of foam.
The schooner looked exceedingly handsome as she floated at her cable, with the ripples of the blown stream twisting in slender lines of light from the cut-water.
The lights of her cabin windows shook through the ripples in long darts of silver.
Her hair ripples itself full of gleams and shadows.
All before our eyes is yellow--not a russet tinge appears among those gracious leaf-ripples that lose themselves in the distance.
Where lilies float on broad green leaves Below the ripples of the mill, When the white moth is hovering In the dim sky so hushed and still, I watch beneath the pollard ash The greedy trout leap up and splash.
While the ripples fold upon sands of gold, And I look across the sea.
A military band came marching up, playing the Internationale, and spontaneously the song caught and spread like wind-ripples on a sea, slow and solemn.
How much more sport is it to clamber over fallen logs that stretch far out a-stream, to wade slipping over boulders and let your fly drop caressingly on ripples and swirling eddies and still holes!
As the course of the stream where the beds abound is divided into pools, separated by stony ripples or shallows, the nests must be made at the ends of the pools.
The sun pushed up, a flattened red ball, from the lake of steel ripples to the lake of calm clouds.
Michel thought there was nothing more wonderful in the world than this glory of hair, its rings and ripples shining in the firelight.
She was silent for a little, looking away over the ripples of Lake Simcoe to the green arms of the channel that showed the way to Algonquin.
There was another period of calling into the darkness and of silent waiting, broken only by the wash of the little ripples against the canoe.
It was useless to distribute any more bread upon the waters; certainly not on the ripples washing the shores of Moccador.
In the narrow opening fronting the broad waters lawless waves quarrel and clash, forcing their way among the frightened ripples of San Giuseppe, ashy gray under the lowering sky.
The sudden impact sets up a series of ripples all round the centre of disturbance, and the electrical impulse acts similarly in the ether.
As with the electro-magnetic waves, they may spread all round, just as ripples do if we throw a stone into a pond; but they will only take form where there is a correspondence able to receive them.
And the moonlight effaced the ripples on the water that had stolen away her spirit.
On the bright waters, below, young clerks were sculling their inamoratas up and down; the ripples set free by their oars gleamed beneath the sun, and ducks swam lazily along the banks.
He dipped his sculls, the ripples started out and swam in grave diminuendo till they touched the banks.
Though the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters, the divine man does not respect them: he sees them as a rack of clouds, or a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water.
It often runs over ragged rocks with a smooth surface, and is vexed with ripples as it slides over sands that are level as a floor.
The gust passed over, the ripples smoothed themselves, and the stars shone again in quiet reflection.
Photograph contrasts sharply with those from Rift Mountains in lack of current or oscillation ripples and rock outcrops.
Photographs taken on these seamounts showed rock, ripples and live solitary corals.
Note small ripples which appear to be superimposed on larger ripples.
From long practice and inherited instinct we are able, from the small fraction of these ripples which enter our eyes, to make inferences regarding the obstructive objects from which they have been shimmered and scattered.
It is like inferring the ships and boats and obstacles in a harbour from the pattern of the reflectedripples which cross each other on the surface of the water.
The ear is an instrument for the appreciation of aerial vibrations, or ripples in the air.
The eye is an instrument for appreciating ripples in the ether.
The sweet wind carries off the mariners to their home; the water ripples and plashes gently; and to the last bar of the act all is peace and beauty.
He went to the edge of the rocks, and looked down on the short ripples that broke into whiteness below him.
Passing southward from the Bondicar Rocks you come to a shallow stream that sprawls over the sand and ripples into the sea.
The ripples are all on the farther side," Elinor said, looking pensively downstream.
And why should his eye follow the soft little ripples of her sunny hair, giving a pretty outline to her face and neck.
Under her little blue dusting cap, the sunny ripples of her hair framed a face glowing with health.
Dennie was just beyond Vincent, who noted incidentally the play of light and shadow on the blowsy ripples of her hair that night and remembered it all on a day long afterward.
It was well thought to set thee there, so she Might smooth the windy ripples of her hair And knot their tangled waywardness, or ere She stood before the queen Persephone.
They had paused at the margin of the lake; the gold ripples ran like a pathway from the toe of Mrs. Beale's little shoe to the tall poplars on the opposite bank, through the dark leaves of which the sun blazed, cloudless to its setting.
And where the pools end and the ripples begin are the same infatuated stepping-stones, that think they can bear your weight, and can't.
She ripples on musically: "Of cawce, I shall have Cerberus, because he belawngs to Jack.
Again for a brief moment the clouds parted and the brilliant moonlight whitened the sands and tipped the tiny ripples with its radiance.
The silence deepened, and was only broken by the ripples of Yann that lightly touched our prow.
Already the surface of the lagoon in the vicinity of the two ships was furrowed with diverging lines of ripples as the black dorsal fins of numerous tigers of the deep cleft the water.
Only a few ripples marked the spot where the down-current met the submerged barrier.
In the Limbo into which Robert's then spirit flew, it had been sorely exercised about the substitution of the sufferings of Christ for those which humanity must else have endured while ages rolled on--mere ripples on the ocean of eternity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ripples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
