Both Uses
undulate
in
The Mill on the Floss
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- One's delight in an elderberry bush overhanging the confused leafage of a hedgerow bank, as a more gladdening sight than the finest cistus or fuchsia spreading itself on the softest undulating turf, is an entirely unjustifiable preference to a nursery-gardener, or to any of those regulated minds who are free from the weakness of any attachment that does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy;†
Chpt 2.2undulations = smooth wave-like motions
Definitions:
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(1)
(undulate) a smooth wave-like motion (physical or auditory)
or:
having a wavy or rippled form or surface - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)