Continuing the repeated aerial strikes which had begun weeks earlier from the carriers, waves of planes swept in low for bombing and strafing runs.
And indeed it seemed that this might be so, for with the wind forcing her down, and the hungry waves leaping up, as if to clutch her to themselves, the Falcon was having anything but an easy time of it.
The little breeze of the afternoon had died away, and not a leaf stirred; only where the subsiding waves disturbed the shells and pebbles on the beach could be heard a soft whispering rustle.
My Lady clad herself in green, Like meadows where the wind-waves pass; Then round my spirit spread, I ween, A splendour of forgotten grass.
What image is there in nature so striking and awful as the long waves of the Atlantic bearing down in storm upon a helpless ship, and sweeping it upon an iron-bound coast!
It sent waves of pain into his mind, and almost blotted out all thought, except for a maniac notion that urged Jerry to laugh at the creature's ambition.
Even as he reasoned this out, one of the enemy vessels on the screen shuddered, split into almost-matching halves and plunged beneath the waves amid much flame and confusion.
Little Lasse put all the twelve into the water, and they floated as splendidly and as proudly as any great ship over the waves of the ocean.
Sad or sinful is the life of that man who finds not the heavens bluer and the waves more musical in maturity than in childhood.
On every side The people leaped like billows for a sight, And closed behind, like waves behind a ship.
And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the waves his own.
But the wrecks of precious virtues, which had been covered with the waves of prosperity, came up also.
King's daughter; "here upon the bleak beach, between the waves and the dead leaves?
Show me a marvel here upon the beach, between the waves and the dead leaves.
And the waves beat upon the one hand, and upon the other the dead leaves ran; and the clouds raced in the sky, and the gulls flew widdershins.
Other great waves came madly on, leaping toward destruction; how they bellowed over the shoal!
Moored snug in the inlet, it was pleasant to listen to the roar of the breakers on the bar, but not so cheerful was the thought of facing the high waves seaward.
Clock at a time the wind was verry high and waves tremendeous five Indians Came down in a Canoe loaded with fish of Salmon Spes.
Seal river in consequence of the waves being too high for their small canoe did not join us untill after dark.
Dark which it receved by the waves dashing into it on its return, haveing landed Capt.
Swells or waves So high that we thought it imprudent to proceed; we landed unloaded and drew up our Canoes.
Ordway returned and reported that the waves ran So high in the Bay that he could not pass to the enterance of a Creek which we had directed him to assend with the Canoe.
Clock, the waves tremendious brakeing with great fury against the rocks and trees on which we were encamped.
The emence Seas and waveswhich breake on the rocks & Coasts to the S W.
What harm can that do so long as a vast stretch of country divide us and Nereus’ waves thunder between?
Yet virtue none shall find that has not first learned to know himself and stilled the uncertain waves of passion within him.
Burning Corinth would not have heated the wavesof her two seas, nor would cruel chains have led in captivity the matrons of Athens.
Did Cyrus’ victory oust mighty Croesus from his throne that Pactolus and Hermus should roll their waves for a eunuch?
There is a place where Gaul stretches her furthermost shore spread out before the waves of Ocean: ’tis there that Ulysses is said to have called up the silent ghosts with a libation of blood.
Triton was swimming beneath the waves of the Carpathian sea, pursuing reluctant Cymothoë.
Cloud-girt Ceraunia, the storms that dash the waves in foam on Leucas’ promontory--these could not affright any.
Thy lips the stream’s waves shall flee, thirst shall parch thee to whose chin its elusive waters mount.
Canst thou count the waves of the sea, the grains of Africa’s sands, if so thou canst number Eutropius’ masters.
The report of the Committee on Government Contracts had been forgotten or only vaguely remembered.
Richard Mather, who migrated from Liverpool, England, to Massachusetts in 1635, and was the father of Increase Mather and grandfather of Cotton Mather, both celebrated in the church history of New England.
Seward's interpretation of the second section of the amendment turned out to be correct, but many years of doubt and gloom were to pass before a decision upon it was reached in the Supreme Court.
Lulled in sweet sleep, she seemed to stand upon a shore watching the waves which threw, at each inflowing, beautiful shells at her feet.
Question rose on question, until her mind seemed plunging into a sea whose troubled waves moaned and dashed against her life-bark, giving her spirit no repose.
I hope nothing has occurred to mar your pleasure while here; at least nothing but what the waves will wash away?
I was lulled by undulating waves of light; each motion giving deeper rest, followed by a delicious sense of enjoyment without demand of action; a balancing of all the being.
The storm is over,' he said, 'see how the waves are tipped with golden rays.
He must come to Germany before he can fathom the sea of sound, or understand in fullness what the rippling waves of sweet music are saying.
The cold waters chilled you, till you grew helpless, and the waves bore you swiftly to the ocean.
O, lone and barren shore, where are the waves of joy?
I must have no earthly moorings; far, far out on life's tumultuous sea, I see myself buffeting the waves alone.
May the waves bear us safely to the arms of those who love us.
Go, then," he said, "but do not allow the waves to steal you away.
Successive waves of Turks from the same district in Central Asia, in the course of the three previous centuries, had made their way into Asia Minor, and had taken forcible possession of the greater part of it.
This tow'rd the waves Her hands extends; a rocky mass she stands, In the same waves far stretching.
A place to her, paternal rage would drown: “Or to a place transform her, where my waves “May clasp her still.
Thus stands a rock, which waves with thundering roar “Surround; it stands unhurt in all its strength.
Far stretching in the main “A wedge-like promontory rears its ridge “Aloft; on either side the surging waves “Foam on it.
This is the Ocean that moveth by the power of Thy sovereign might, and whose waves the influence of the infidels that have disbelieved in the Judgment Day can never still.
Thou seest, O Thou Who art my All-Glorious Beloved, the restless waves that surge within the ocean of my heart, in my love and yearning towards Thee.
As the sound of the washing waves boomed from the speaker, the cone of bluish light took form before the bisected shell.
The whirling ceased and the next instant Sutter stood on the shore of a lonely sea with a tawny width of sand stretching out before him and the waves washing up almost at his feet.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
A fine range of opposite hills, covered with grazing flocks, terminated with a bold sweep into the ocean, whose blue waves appeared at a distance beyond.
The sun shone, and gilded the waves with a glittering light that sparkled in the most brilliant manner.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
The breaking of the waves against the foot of the cliff at so great a distance beneath me, produced an incessant and pleasing murmur.
The waves of the sea," thought I, "ebb and flow in exact obedience to the law of their Creator.
At our feet the waves were advancing over shelves of rocks covered with a great variety of sea-weeds, which swam in little fragments, and displayed much beauty and elegance of form as they were successively thrown upon the sand.
No misfortunes can affect him, he floats like a bit of cork on the top of the waves which seem destined to overwhelm him.
But still, like the great hero of the mighty founder of the Epic song, he rose above the waves that poured upon his head, and still answered, "Never!
During the various wars of England and France, sieges and battles innumerable passed by the château d'Arques, like waves beating against a rock.
It seemed as if a giant ocean of enormous waveshad suddenly been frozen, and that I stood upon their highest pinnacle.
Every circumstance of joy dances round us, like the ripple of the waves in the morning sun.
Last night I had looked into tired eyes that had not yet fully escaped from the shadows of tragedy, into the sharp oval of a colorless face from which waves of storm had washed the life.
Except for the lapping of the waves the night was very still.
The tide was in and from the parapet we watched the wavesbeat against the foot of the wall.
Otherwise no sound but the lapping of the waves at the piles broke the silence.
The wash of the waves made it unnecessary for us to take any precautions to muffle the sound of our oars and the darkness of the night made detection at any distance improbable.
We were very glad to be rid of him, for a dozen times the waves had nearly swamped our overloaded skiff and I had been bailing every second.
The waves would bear you to another region, far--oh, far from your Olivia.
The oil, which the skilful mariner throws upon the sea, not only smooths the waves in the storm, but when the sun shines, spreads the most beautiful colours over the surface of the waters.
There was a movement among the audience like the shuddering of waves surging towards him.
The cry spread; those at a distance heard it, who had heard nothing else, and those who could hear neither the cry nor anything else felt the dark, magnetic waves of wrath pierce their breasts.
Once having tasted the charms of a life of adventure, the longing for it will ever remain, and a calm sea never seems as beautiful and sublime as the furiously whipped waves of a stormy ocean.
This fact becomes more conspicuous where it concerns a small ethnical island surrounded by the wild waves of a mighty ethnical sea, which threaten to destroy it, as we see exemplified in Hungary.
It is like the waves of the sea, but of effervescing champagne--of boiling milk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
