All 5 Uses
whitecaps
in
A Soldier of the Great War
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- Soon, they were underway in the wind, gulls maneuvered around them, and whitecaps appeared in the water.†
Chpt 5 *whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- 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.†
Chpt 5whitecap = a wind-blown wave with white foam at its crest
- The waves made refractive lines that seemed to hold more than the light, and the whitecaps speckling its windy surface bloomed like flowers.†
Chpt 6whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(whitecaps) wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)