65 adjectives to describe billows

In an attempt to elope, the wife and her lover are wrecked, and clinging to a spar, are overtaken by the "terrible South Breakerplunging and rearing and swelling, a monstrous billow, sweeping and swooping and rocking in."

And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamor in the slippery clouds, That with the hurly death itself awakes?

For far below, all strife of angry billow and raging storm was unknown, and glad enough was I to reach my mother's side.

the thunderbolt of war! Hurl'd from thy hands, Britannia's vengeance roars, And bloody billows stain the hostile shores: Thy sacred ire Confed'rate Kingdoms braves, And 'whelms their Navies in Sepulchral waves!

From under their very feet great masses of rock, tossed and tumbled as by a giant's play, stretched downwards to where the green woods began and rolled in vast billows to the harbor, which shone and sparkled in the sun, yet seemed no bigger than their mother's paw.

Enormous billows as black as ink, resembling the backs of fish, bore us along, spinning us round.

The surf was magnificent, rolling up in grand billows, which broke and formed again, till the last of the long, falling fringes of snow slid seething up the sand.

These simple homes of farmers seemed lost on an immensity of soft gray and golden billows of land, insignificant dots here and there on distant hills, so far apart that nature only seemed accountable for those broad squares of alternate gold and brown, extending on and on to the waving horizon-line.

With nerveless hand she broke the seal; no emotion was visible, save the delicate glow upon her cheek, which came and went, and the playing of the muscles about her compressed lips, as she read the following: "My SisterWhen you read this, I shall be far away, sailing over those glorious billows which you and I love so well!

" Ye spicy groves, perfume each breeze That steals along the Indian seas, For we have felt a pang of woe, Since, plunged in awful depths below, Our much lamented Judson's clay, Must 'neath its rolling billows lay, Where monsters of the ocean creep, 'Round him o'er whom the nations weep.

One minute all seems fair, with the sun shining; another, and a white squall is dashing down upon the ship, to catch the crew unawares and perhaps smother them with its mighty foam-crested billows.

The fore-part meantime remained fast on the rocks, lashed by the furious billows.

On and on he winged his way, among toppling icebergs and over frozen billows and through air which the sun never warmed, and at last he came to the cavern where the three Gray Sisters dwelt.

Huge surges were racing in from seaward, growing larger with each successive billow.

"The Swallow" was steady enough to inspire even Annie Foster with a feeling of confidence; but Ford carefully explained to her the difference between slipping over the little waves of the landlocked bay, and plunging into the gigantic billows of the stormy Atlantic.

How dear this freedom to the soul; Bright ocean, I am with thee now, So let thy golden billows roll!

And with greeting full of fawning Speaks to the Caspian Sea: "Hospitable part thy billows, Give me room, oh Ocean grave!

Then once more hope to reach the goal, For faith with works will save a soul, Though hostile billows round it roll.

I now saw what I never saw before, a prodigious sea, with immense billows coming upon a vessel, so as that it seemed hardly possible to escape.

No object was visible, but the sea-fowl wheeling on his wide wing, and the summits of the irregular and green billows.

130 Las Casas now explores a secret cave Whose shaggy sides the languid billows lave; "There rest secure, he cried, the Christian God "Will hover near, will guard the lone abode.

Far above the reach of my exploring fingers Birds are singing and winging joyously Through leafy billows of green.

It was a sudden squall, and the clouds thickened and massed themselves into great hills of blackness; the water turned dark and began to rise in little threatening billows, the wind grew stronger and stronger, and then without warning the rain came.

The Golden Butterfly now seemed to be gliding silently through lonely billows of white sea fog.

Swing his coffin to and fro; As of old the lusty billow Swayed him on his heaving pillow: So that he may fancy still, Climbing up the watery hill, Plunging in the watery vale, With her wide-distended sail, His good ship securely stands Onward to the golden lands.

65 adjectives to describe  billows