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whitecaps
in
The Odyssey
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- 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.†p. 106.8whitecaps = wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest - 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.†p. 116.8 - 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.†p. 188.3 - You'll see for yourself how far they top the best—
my ships and their young shipmates
tossing up the whitecaps with their oars!†p. 190.1 * - 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.†p. 277.1 - 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.†p. 284.3 - 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.†p. 396.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(whitecaps) wind-blown waves with white foam at their crest
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)