Example Sentences

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Now the waves   Lap languorously along the foamless sand,   And till the far horizon swims in mist.

From From the Lips of the Sea by Scollard, Clinton

The sleek-barrelled swell before storm—grey, foamless, enormous, and growing?

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

Once more, beyond the fuchsia bushes, the sea sighed, as it felt the long shore with a continuous foamless wave.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

They see the Heroes Sitting in the dark ship On the foamless, long-heaving Violet sea,  205At sunset nearing �206The Happy Islands.�

From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew

Her flashing stars, her scented breeze, Her trembling lakes, like foamless seas, Her bird-delighting citron-trees   In every purple vale!

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. by De la Mare, Walter