17 adverbs to describe how to lap

There comes a tide in the affairs of men when the years lap softly, leaving no particular inundations on the celebrated sands of time.

Straight before him, into the unruffled, tideless sea, the sun was sinking in all its blood-red glory as he went at swinging pace along the white, dusty road, past the octroi barrier, and out into the country where, on the left, the waves lazily lapped the grey rocks, while upon the right the fertile slopes were covered with carnations and violets growing for the markets of Paris and London.

" Marian had flushed slightly at the sound; and Elinor, with her feet stretched out before her, lapped the carpet restlessly with her heels, and watched her cousin sourly as Douglas entered.

The warm blood followed the barb, and he lapped it eagerly in his hunger.

A glorious sun swept up, and began to lap thirstily the wavering mists from the surface of the sea.

He began to lap the cool water greedily.

The book was a French treatise on the Marxian philosophiesdull reading for a summer's day when the water lapped merrily at one's feet, the breeze sighed softly, laden with the odors of the mysterious deeps, and sea and sky beckoned him invitingly into the realms of adventure and delight, so dull that, the fish biting not, Markham dozed, and at last rolled over in the sunlight and slept.

He so terrified Horatio, our portly bull-dog, by pecking at his sensitive kinky tail from behind when he was absent-mindedly lapping water from Daisy's bath, that he never again ventured alone on to the lawn.

Standing there confused in the grim silence, unable for the instant to determine how to advance in the dark, he could hear the rapid beating of his own heart, and the continuous lap of waves outside.

The idle waters of the lagoon, lying without tide or current in eternal indolence, rippled and sparkled in breeze and sunlight with a merry surface activity, and seemed to lap the leaky little boat more swiftly on its way.

Their boat had suddenly dropped behind until its nose was barely lapping the rival shell.

A wharf-end with water lapping underneath and bits of rope about will set me itching for a deep-sea plot.

Hilda ran down the steps; at the bottom another row of lamps defined the shore, and now she could hear the tide lapping ceaselessly amid the supporting ironwork of the pier.

I stood still, the water lapping faintly on the sand at my feet; it was hardly a sound.

Either they were insulted or fully realized the exigency of the situation, for each one came up and gratefully lapped every drop of his portion.

So BLINKY lapped it up very hungrily and was perfectly happy!

The water lapped incessantly against the side.

17 adverbs to describe how to  lap  - Adverbs for  lap