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  • It's late-9 P.M.—so we can't really see the blue of the water, just the whitecaps of the waves as they crash against the beach.†   (source)
  • A whitecapped expanse of water rippled with fan-shaped patterns where wind brushed it.†   (source)
  • Snow squalls moved across the prairie and gave the illusion of whitecaps on the numberless stalks of high grass.†   (source)
  • The whitecaps rolled in beneath dark, lowering clouds.†   (source)
  • Whitecaps roiled among the capsized boats and caused them and the docks to surge and roll, and the tops of the cabins and drum reels and gunnels were loaded down with snow.†   (source)
  • Men with binoculars had them trained toward the whitecaps, and everyone was tense.†   (source)
  • We were already out tying up by the time our wake caught up; it pitched all the boats around and slopped over the dock and whitecapped around the docks like we'd brought the sea home with us.†   (source)
  • In the first ones he looked happy, with his sport shirt which looked like a hospital jacket and his snowy mane, in an October Caribbean filled with whitecaps.†   (source)
  • The sea, still rolling at about eight feet, was a gray, crinkled surface dotted with whitecaps.†   (source)
  • her whitecaps are your enemies.†   (source)
  • She saw tiny whitecaps—which meant rocks beneath the rippling water.†   (source)
  • The water had taken on the color of iron, like the hull of an old battleship, and she could see tiny whitecaps stretching to the horizon.†   (source)
  • When last I passed this way, I saw every rock and tree and whitecap, and watched the grey gulls flying in our wake.†   (source)
  • The ocean was gray and dotted with whitecaps and the sails of merchant ships.†   (source)
  • Soon, they were underway in the wind, gulls maneuvered around them, and whitecaps appeared in the water.†   (source)
  • Then the call came again, cutting through the harmony of the wind's endless song like a whitecapped wave on a still pond.†   (source)
  • The sea outside was a raucous blue, dusted with tiny whitecaps.†   (source)
  • What was the matter with his life all these years, that it had stood in anxious whitecaps?†   (source)
  • As we crossed the bridge, the water of Lake Pontchar-train reflected the sky's gray tone, with whitecaps on its disturbed surface.†   (source)
  • I seem to see old Colgate's face beneath an occasional whitecap.†   (source)
  • It was already drizzling slightly, the sky was overcast and foreboding, and tiny whitecaps were forming on the river surface.†   (source)
  • When I was little, these men, these Whitecaps, come riding down through the flats where we lived, looking for somebody they wanted.†   (source)
  • Its blue had darkened and changed, and here and there at the edge of things could be seen a little whitecap.†   (source)
  • The whitecaps grew into high, breaking waves.   (source)
  • Even when struck by whitecaps, the patches held.   (source)
  • Whitecaps slapped and spat, and pelicans, heads turning for fish, flew low over the waves.   (source)
  • Sometimes, a whitecap would drench the patch before it dried, and he'd have to begin again.   (source)
    whitecap = a wind-blown wave with white foam at its crest
  • Gunning her engine, she threaded the needle between the oncoming rigs, her boat banging whitecaps as she raced for the open sea.   (source)
    whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
  • Whitecaps slapped into the fissures, a sensation that Louie compared to having alcohol poured onto a wound.   (source)
  • Again, whitecaps repeatedly washed over the raft and spoiled the patches, and everything had to be redone.   (source)
  • Louie caught a few fish, once parlaying a tiny one, thrown into the raft by a whitecap, into bait that yielded a comparatively fat pilot fish.   (source)
    whitecap = a wind-blown wave with white foam at its crest
  • He had collected some two pints of water when a whitecap cracked into the raft, crested over, and slopped into the canvas, spoiling the water.   (source)
  • Even when that was done, there was no way to avoid the next whitecap, because Louie couldn't see them coming.   (source)
  • The sea was beginning to reach for our hilltop, climbing the forty feet with raging whitecaps.†   (source)
  • It was blue and peaceful, and a good breeze churned it up, making lines of whitecaps.†   (source)
  • Blackwater Bay was rough and choppy, whitecaps everywhere.†   (source)
  • Victarion missed the grey-green waters of home, with their whitecaps and surges.†   (source)
  • The sun was barely visible aft, the sky leaden, the sea black except for the splash of whitecaps.†   (source)
  • From his vantage point at the wheel of the Islander he saw the soft cedars of San Piedro Island, its high, rolling hills, the low mist that lay in long streamers against its beaches, the whitecaps riffling its shoreline.†   (source)
  • The illusion that they were gazing at a great green sea was nearly perfect, down to the wind-ruffled shimmers of stalks looking like whitecaps far from shore.†   (source)
  • The ledge I'm standing on is starting to crumble, to flake away and tumble down, down, down—thousands of feet below me, into the ocean, which is whipping and snapping so hard it looks like one gigantic, frothing stew, all whitecaps and surging water.†   (source)
  • His vista of the sea was a wide and windy one; his gardens were planted with low azalea hedges, camellias, starina roses, and espaliered boxwoods, all framed by the whitecaps on the shuffling waters and the annealed gray of the beach stones.†   (source)
  • Then his mind moved outward, and Kabuo was at sea again, his net set, the salmon running, and he was standing on the foredeck of the Islander with the breeze in his face, the phosphorus in the water brilliant before him, the whitecaps silver in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • It was a fine September day of the sort they saw rarely, cloudless and June warm if you stood where there was no shade, the sunlight glinting among the whitecaps in the far distance, so that Art Moran understood what he hadn't before: that Carl had built here not just for the sun it afforded but for the long view to the north and west.†   (source)
  • When they reached the weathered boardwalk that covered the beach, Roran halted and stared out at the ocean, which was gray from low clouds and dotted with whitecaps from erratic wind.†   (source)
  • The days were not bad so long as the sun was shining, but the nights were growing colder and sometimes the wind would come gusting across the bay, driving a line of whitecaps before it, and before long Davos would be soaked and shivering.†   (source)
  • The Pamlico River was nearly a mile wide and flowed angrily, the currents rippling to form tiny whitecaps as they rushed downstream.†   (source)
  • It was whitecaps all the way to the horizon, and you just stood there holding me, trying to convince me to get back in the car.†   (source)
  • The call rolled across whitecaps and churning oars from the forecastle of the Fury: Ser Imry was sounding the attack.†   (source)
  • …me to sleep as I lay in my bed
    then wake me with a force
    That I soon came to dread.
    Her fables, her lies, her misleading eyes,
    I'd drain her dry
    If I cared enough to.
    I used to love the ocean,
    Everything about her.
    Her coral reefs, her whitecaps, her roaring waves, the
    rocks they lap, her pirate legends and mermaid tails,
    treasures lost and treasures held.
    And ALL
    Of her fish
    In the sea.
    Well, if you've ever tried navigating your sailboat
    through her stormy seas, you…†   (source)
  • The waves made refractive lines that seemed to hold more than the light, and the whitecaps speckling its windy surface bloomed like flowers.†   (source)
  • A twenty-knot wind was blowing from the southwest, and a six-foot sea was running, its dark waves streaked with whitecaps.†   (source)
  • As they broke in their millions like whitecaps on the sea, they shattered the peace of the room and restored it in a rhythm that ebbed and flowed and rocked the wounded soldier to sleep.†   (source)
  • His eyes were flinty too, black and sharp, but the years and the salt winds had turned his hair the grey of a winter sea, flecked with whitecaps.†   (source)
  • Its storms are fierce in the air and fierce in the light, but on the sea itself the waves break before they come to resemble the movable mountains of the ocean, and the surface flashes with curling whitecaps until it looks like a sheepskin in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • To the north, past the docks and warehouses, was Leona Lake, a vast expanse of water dotted with the occasional whitecap.†   (source)
  • His hair was still black as a midnight sea, with never a whitecap to be seen, and his face was still smooth and pale beneath his neat dark beard.†   (source)
  • For 360 degrees round they saw not even a single whitecap on the blue water, and the sky was just as emptyneither clouds, nor birds, nor any variation in texture.†   (source)
  • The wind was still blowing outside up the lake and we could see the tops of the whitecaps going away from us and up the lake.†   (source)
  • The rain stopped and the wind drove the clouds so that the moon shone through and looking back I could see the long dark point of Castagnola and the lake with whitecaps and beyond, the moon on the high snow mountains.†   (source)
  • We were in imminent danger of being swamped by the whitecaps.†   (source)
  • The sea had turned a dull leaden grey and grown rougher, and was now tossing foaming whitecaps to the sky.†   (source)
  • Time and again and countless times we watched the boat luff into the big whitecaps, lose headway, and be flung back like a cork.†   (source)
  • In consequence it held the boat bow on to the sea and wind—the safest position in which to escape being swamped when the sea is breaking into whitecaps.†   (source)
  • They conceived and bore twelve colts, that in their gallop over farmland ran without trampling on the tips of grain, and running on the sea's broad back they clipped the whitecaps doffing foam on grey salt water.†   (source)
  • Great fish beneath him gamboled from every quarter of the deep, aware their lord rode overhead; in laughter whitecaps parted, and the team full tilt airily drew unwetted the axle-tree; with leap on leap they bore him toward the beachhead.†   (source)
  • A whitecap foamed above it and broke across in a snow-white smother.†   (source)
  • …to sail on, was held back
    till he could bury his mate with fitting rites.
    But once he'd got off too, plowing the wine-dark sea
    in his ribbed ships, and made a run to Malea's beetling cape,
    farseeing Zeus decided to give the man rough sailing,
    poured a hurricane down upon him, shrilling winds,
    giant, rearing whitecaps, monstrous, mountains high.
    There at a stroke he cut the fleet in half and drove
    one wing to Crete, where Cydonians make their homes
    along the Iardanus River.†   (source)
  • …it fast with stays
    and with braided rawhide halyards hauled the white sail high.
    Suddenly wind hit full and the canvas bellied out
    and a dark blue wave, foaming up at the bow,
    sang out loud and strong as the ship made way,
    skimming the whitecaps, cutting toward her goal.
    All running gear secure in the swift black craft,
    they set up bowls and brimmed them high with wine
    and poured libations out to the everlasting gods
    who never die—to Athena first of all,
    the daughter of Zeus…†   (source)
  • …world, when one has been
    so far from home, so long away as I, roving over
    many cities of men, enduring many hardships.
    Still,
    my story will tell you all you need to know.
    There is a land called Crete ….
    ringed by the wine-dark sea with rolling whitecaps—
    handsome country, fertile, thronged with people
    well past counting—boasting ninety cities,
    language mixing with language side-by-side.
    First come the Achaeans, then the native Cretans,
    hardy, gallant in action, then Cydonian…†   (source)
  • …strength
    and Helios' burning rays, the sun at high noon,
    and I stopped the ears of my comrades one by one.
    They bound me hand and foot in the tight ship-

    erect at the mast-block, lashed by ropes to the mast—
    and rowed and churned the whitecaps stroke on stroke.
    We were just offshore as far as a man's shout can carry,
    scudding close, when the Sirens sensed at once a ship
    was racing past and burst into their high, thrilling song:
    'Come closer, famous Odysseus—Achaea's pride…†   (source)
  • Round she spun,
    reeling under the impact, filled with reeking brimstone,
    shipmates pitching out of her, bobbing round like seahawks
    swept along by the whitecaps past the trim black hull—
    and the god cut short their journey home forever.
    But I went lurching along our battered hulk
    till the sea-surge ripped the plankings from the keel
    and the waves swirled it away, stripped bare, and snapped
    the mast from the decks—but a backstay made of bull's-hide
    still held fast, and with…†   (source)
  • Imagine,
    there they sailed and back they came in the same day,
    they finished the homeward run with no strain at all.

    You'll see for yourself how far they top the best—
    my ships and their young shipmates
    tossing up the whitecaps with their oars!"
    So he vowed
    and the long-enduring great Odysseus glowed with joy
    and raised a prayer and called the god by name:
    "Father Zeus on high—
    may the king fulfill his promises one and all!
    Then his fame would ring through the fertile…†   (source)
  • My heart leapt up, unlucky as I am,
    doomed to be comrade still to many hardships.
    Many pains the god of earthquakes piled upon me,
    loosing the winds against me, blocking passage through,
    heaving up a terrific sea, beyond belief—nor did the whitecaps
    let me cling to my craft, for all my desperate groaning.
    No, the squalls shattered her stem to stern, but I,
    I swam hard, I plowed my way through those dark gulfs
    till at last the wind and current bore me to your shores.
    But here,…†   (source)
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