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Almayer's Folly : A Story of an Eastern River

By: Joseph Conrad

...and over the river, where it broke and sparkled in thousands of glittering wavelets, like a band woven of azure and gold edged with the brilliant gree... ...ttle islet the air was full of the talk of the rippling water. The crested wavelets ran up the beach audaciously, joyously, with the lightness of youn...

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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...er to black and shining wave- lets with either hand, swaying and shivering wavelets, amid which the stars were netted in the tangled reflections of th...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...t the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mis sissippi, the majestic, the magnifi... ...er, to go speeding over the breezy ex panses of the river when the world of wavelets is dancing in the sun. It is such grandeur, too, to the cub, to ...

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Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...nn, walked down upon the beach. With the wind in that quarter, only little wavelets, not much bigger than I had seen upon a lake, beat upon the shore....

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The Alkahest

By: Honoré de Balzac

...h, like an overflowing spring, poured forth its su- perabundance in little wavelets. The events which separated these lovers produced a melancholy whi...

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The Trespasser

By: D. H. Lawrence

...cting magic out of the simple morning. She watched the indolent chasing of wavelets round the small rocks, the curl- ing of the deep blue water round ...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

..., with a bright green surge flowing off from them, a pattering of flashing wavelets about them. He smote the water and splashed it toward her, she ret...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ne; but the breeze was strong and chill; and the mate, who conned the schooner from the cross-trees, re- turned shivering to the deck. The lagoon was ...

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An Outcast of the Islands

By: Joseph Conrad

...oseph Conrad the river that hurried on in swirls and eddies, its sparkling wavelets chasing each other in their joy- ous course to the sheltering dept...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...g, lo, a zephyr Softly rose, and set the tree-tops moving, Curling all the wavelets on the river, And the perfect maiden’s veil, too, fill’d it, And t...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...s below became unanimous, gathered volume, came up to him as multitudinous wavelets of cheering. The western sky was a pallid bluish green, and Jupite...

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The Lily of the Valley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...-wheels lashed it. Here and there were mounds of gravel, against which the wavelets broke in fringes that shimmered in the sunlight. Amaryllis, 22 Th...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...swer him. “It is called a milk sea,” I explained. “A large extent of white wavelets often to be seen on the coasts of Am- boyna, and in these parts of...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...from the snowy bosom – Fainter than the rose-red lip! Rising in a storm of wavelets, That for shelter, feigning fright, Prest to those twin-heaving ha...

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The Rescue a Romance of the Shallows

By: Joseph Conrad

...; and on each side the water became noisy, breaking into numerous and tiny wavelets, a mimicry of an immense agitation. Yet the vessel in the midst of...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

... _330 Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea And dies on the creation of its breath, And ...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

... the sea and sky, appeared suspended, purple-black, in the air. The little wavelets seemed to be tossing tiny red sparks upon the sandy beaches. The g...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ere leaping against their base, and roaring in their hollows; the tract of wavelets between glittered in light, or heaved green under the shadow of th...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...er to black and shining wave- lets with either hand, swaying and shivering wavelets, amidst which the stars were netted in the tangled reflections of ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...emashie. He glanced across the reeds reflected on the water, the quiver of wavelets like crumpled tinfoil, the distant shores patched with dark woods,...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By: Kate Chopin

...ure, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known. The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like ser pents about he...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...ansitory death,— Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea And dies on the creation of its breath, ...

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