1506 examples of wave of in sentences

Against the tide-wall of history, beaten by many a storm, and battered by many a thundering wave, there is about to sweep the incoming wave of a new life for the race: there is about to pass a greater than the spirit of Tsze-,even the Spirit of God!

This explanation seems to cover imitative play, from the little child's imitative wave of the hand up to such elaborate imitations as are described in Stanley Hall's Story of a Sand Pile, or in Dewey's Schools of To-morrow.

Captain Raleigh dismissed the two lads with a wave of his hand.

According to M. Cambon, however, all these latter elements "are only a sort of make-weight in political matters with limited influence on public opinion, or they are silent social forces, passive and defenceless against the infection of a wave of warlike feeling."

The great wave of democratic sentiment which had swept over Europe, America, and the islands of Japan at last reached the Chinese shore, and is now rolling along resistlessly over the immense empire toward its final goala world-wide democracy.

" She turned away with a little farewell wave of the hand and was lost at once in the surging stream of people.

At almost every cabin a dog ran out to blaspheme at the intruder, but a wave of the man's pistol sent them yelping under the floors again.

Jim Pink hailed Peter with a wave of his hand and a grotesque displacement of his mouth to one side of his face, which he had found effective in his minstrel buffoonery.

Buck smiledpure hatred made him smilebut it was mean, a mean and sorry thing to shoot this man in the back, dog though he was; and now that the moment had come a wave of sickening shame ran through Buck.

A little crisping wave went over Aunt Adeline's face, a wave of vexation.

One wave of the conductor's hand, and the live engine springs snorting beneath you, as no Arab steed ever rushed over the desert.

There is nothing left of it but a handful of ashes, which I scatter thus to the four winds,' with a wave of his hand towards the open casement.

A few moments, and the wave of prayer which had flowed down the quaint old shadowy street, bowing all heads as the wind bowed the scarlet tassels of neighboring clover-fields, was passed, and all the world resumed the work of earth just where they left off when the bell began.

" "Oh, to this lady!" with a wave of her hand in her direction.

The wave of republicanism that swept over a considerable part of Europe and over the Western Hemisphere, from 1775 to 1825 had its direct influence in Spain, and an influence only less direct in Cuba.

Perkins, however, did not hesitate, and before Bradford could open his lips, came through the doors that were fastened wide open, and, with a wave of his hand said, in freezing tones, "You've come in the wrong way; the entrance gate and ticket booth is below, as the sign shows.

With a wave of the hand he communicated a new order, and then he saw that the men were raising the kedge from the bottom.

She followed Alec in through the gateway, at the dilapidated stone side-posts of which Max gave a significant wave of the hand as he passed.

But after hours of prayer and struggle, and wave after wave of agonizing convulsion, he gained one of those high points in human possibility where souls can stand a little while at a time, and where all things seem so transfigured and pure that they fancy themselves thenceforward forever victorious over evil.

The stranger acknowledged his thanks with a slight wave of the hand.

As each wave of human advance turned from animal husbandry and agriculture to bourgeois practices of industry, commerce and finance, locations at strategic points along trade routes were first occupied by occasional markets and fairs and eventually by trading towns and cities.

The whiteness clung to her face, and each separate wave of hair was like spun silver.

"Now tell me, under exactly what circumstances did you yield to temptation with that person, to the suggestions of the evil spirit?" The man was swept by a wave of rebellion.

A wave of the hand induced him to venture nearer.

"He calls me his Queen," said she, turning to the surrounding circle with a magnificent wave of the hand and delightedly complacent smile.

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