Example Sentences

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

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

We were within twenty yards of the gap in the reef, and the water converging on it from right and left, foamless and oily like a rapid in the Severn.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

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

There the gloom lay tossing and heaving, a dark, stormy, foamless sea of shadows, but no Mossy rose out of it, or came climbing up the hill on which she stood.

From The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by MacDonald, George