1222 examples of surge in sentences

Meantime, the watery surge shall round him rise, Poured sudden forth from every swelling source.

Yet he was fascinated by this close-up suggestion of man to man in battle, of German to American, of materialist to idealist, and beyond all control was the bursting surge of his blood.

The surge of her relief, like a suddenly released current, impacting with that other current of her unleashed anger, made of her consciousness a sort of wild, fuming whirlpool.

I like the crowds that surge along the streets at night, and the good times they are having.

The bottom, just outside the reef, is covered with that mud, mixed with more lime-mud, which the surge wears off the reef; and if you have, as you should have, a dredge on board, and try a haul of that mud as you row home, you may find, but not always, animal forms rooted in it, which will delight the soul of a scientific man.

The wildness of the sea seemed to surge through Mr. Heatherbloom's veins; he did not come about; he did not try to.

In a surge of momentary insanity he saw red.

But the church has now merely a street of ordinary width passing around it, while the market-place, tho near at hand, neither forms a part of it nor is really contiguous, nor would its throng and bustle be apt to overflow their boundaries and surge against the churchyard and the old gray tower.

V. assemble [be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.

[cause to go up] raise, elevate &c 307. go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap &c 309.

[result of rotation] centrifugal force; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; coriolus force.

body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^, hygre^; fresh, freshet; indraught^, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation^. wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma

Many the chances that fall to men when they look not for them, sometimes to thwart delight, yet others after battling with the surge of sorrowful pain have suddenly received for their affliction some happiness profound.

We go diagonally up wind, and the flames and smoke thus surge and roar and curl and roll, in dense blinding volumes, to the rear and leeward of our line.

The mist was dispersing in the sunny air around us; the ocean was clearing off; the surge was breaking with a pleasant sound below.

"But now...God sees me, God, who took my heart And drowned it in life's surge.

The lofty mast impends, the banner waves, 145 The ruffled surge th' incumbent vessel laves; With eager eye he views her destin'd foe Lead to her peaceful shores th' advent'rous prow; Trembling she knelt, with wild disorder'd air, And pour'd with frantic energy her pray'r 150 "Oh, ye avenging spirits of the deep!

to fill the measure of my woes, "The foaming surge has wash'd his corse away.

In a dome of green and white the surge passed clean over us, and then, with a roar like a torrent, it dragged us back.

Like drops in its exhaustless flood, Our little lives emerge, Swirl for an instant, and are gone, Sunk by another surge!

The wind ahead: day after day These weary words the sailors say; To weeks the days are lengthened now, Still mounts the surge to meet our prow.

" The accent fell upon the first and third syllables with an upward surge of melody that seemed to make the house vibrate.

In his chair the little bent man now cowered lower and lower, one moment praying for strength, the next for death; feeling the blood surge through him like storm waves that would beat him down.

The carriage had to push into the very surge, and Victorine to stand up and call down to this man and that, a fourth and fifth, before one could be made to hear and asked to buy for the helpless ladies.

With the needle rising, did Paris gather in crowds and surge through the streets, singing and shouting itself hoarse, as it ought to have done according to the popular international idea?

1222 examples of  surge  in sentences