And so he came at last to the deserted hunting lodge on Lake House Point early in the morning with the sun on the whitecaps of Lake Koshkonong and the gulls screaming greedily about the cliff.
Then with the inconsistency of youth in springtime Peter forgot his troubles upon seeing Lake Koshkonong spread out before him, flecked with whitecaps in the sun.
The whitecaps of the bay slipped past in the moonlight as they steered to leeward of the line of Dutch merchantmen anchored near the shore.
As their dugouts veered into the Rio Cobre, the whitecaps gave way to placid ripples.
All at once those whitecaps out in the lake seemed to be turning dreadful eyes his way and clamoring for him!
But out in the middle of the lake the little whitecaps were chasing each other boisterously.
The silver surfaces of several lakes gleamed here and there like whitecaps on the rolling waves.
A strong wind which causes whitecaps has much more power to drive the water forward than a weaker wind which does not cause whitecaps.
Any increase in velocity beyond the rate at which whitecaps are formed has a great influence upon the amount of water which is blown forward.
Those whitecapsare caused by the wind blowing from the shore, and the tide coming in," Jack decided, as they advanced steadily on.
Ahead they could see thewhitecaps marking the fierce cross currents that have given this half-mile wide inlet its bad name.
They could see it on the water, darkening the face of the sea, crisping tiny whitecaps as it rushed along.
Their long slopes, shielded somewhat from the full fury of the wind, were broken by systems of smaller whitecapping waves, but from the high crests of the big waves themselves the wind tore the whitecaps in the forming.
We can see the whitecaps in the river at the bend below, but an island protects us from the full sweep of wind and wave.
We scarcely felt the waves from the Bald Eagle when she came in, but the wind raised not only whitecaps but breakers and we rocked some.
Whitecaps in plenty but little motion, as we travel across the wind.
Today he is covered with whitecapsand the current runs like a millrace.
The whitecaps still ruffled the bosom of Cayuga Lake, but the wind had dwindled to a gentle breeze, just enough to fill the sails of the Alice and no more.
They did as directed and saw that he was right, for the water was beginning to show numerouswhitecaps and ripples.
We'll wear masks and gowns, and scare him out of his wits--make him think the Whitecaps or Klu Klux Klan are after him.
He got up as soon as the Whitecaps came; I couldn't persuade him to go back.
I want my horse; there's a gang of Whitecaps coming down the Hawkbill, and it looks like they are after me.
The Whitecaps had left the mountain-side and were now in sight on the level road.
Toot Wambush has prejudiced the Whitecaps against you.
The water was getting a lead color, streaked with foam, and the hissing of the whitecaps had a curiously snaky sound, as they spit water into the boat.
There were no large fish so near shore, and they lacked the courage to go far out, for the whitecaps glittered now and then in mid-water.
On my arrival at the main lake, the wind had increased its velocity, and the whitecaps were breaking.
Our party found the whitecaps rolling in across this traverse, on the top of waves so high that neither of our crafts could possibly live, if out in them.
The whitecaps used to go around at night and get hold of colored people that had been living disorderly and carry them out and whip them.
Whitecaps "I heard them speak of the Ku Klux often.
The lake was a cat, he thought, a great sinewy cat, and the whitecaps rolling into the harbor were its sheathed and unsheathed claws.
Casting a circle of light over the water, the burning boats illuminated the rising waves whose whitecaps broke and fell.
We naturally expected the whitecaps would diminish in size and the wind would be going down, when to our dismay the wind rose, the waves grew more boisterous, and about every seventh wave would toss part of its volume clear over us.
How it danced on the foamy crests of the tide-rifts when the whitecaps broke, throwing the silvery spray all around the heaving, plunging, tossing boat.
After three or four stormy days, with the sea running high and breaking in whitecaps over the deck, not a thing to be seen save the sailors and the albatross following in the wake of the steamer, we reached the port of Seattle.
Stella knew that; she had seen the glassy surface torn intowhitecaps in ten minutes, but she was not afraid of the lake nor the lake winds.
Outside the lake heaved uneasily, still dotted with whitecaps whipped up by the southerly gale.
