A Ripple

Forest covered the land below, multitudinously green, a-ripple with wind. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

At a distance she spied farmland, food animals grazing on Terran grasses, grainfields a-ripple under a sullen wind. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1985)

And the blessed green comely meadows are all a-ripple with mirth ❋ Various (N/A)

He wanted to be off in the Connecticut hills, among the silvery-gray worm-fences, with larks rising on the breeze and pools a-ripple and yellow crocus-blossoms afire by the road, where towns white and sleepy woke to find the elms misted with young green. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

The fine head, a-ripple with curls, was outlined against the sky. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

As Kit clambered on to the floor, the Parson turned, his blue eyes merry, and curls a-ripple. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)

At _pallone_ one day, I saw muscles "all a-ripple down the back," arms and shoulders, which would have intoxicated the great old "amatore del persona" himself. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

And therewith he went scrambling down the terraces and picked his way from stone to stone across the shallows, to the field of anemones, where their satiny petals, like crisping wavelets, all a-ripple in the moving air, shimmered with constantly changing lights. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

The surface below seems almost like a lake of gold-green water, -- especially when long breaths of mountain-wind set the miles of ripening cane a-ripple from verge to verge: the illusion is marred only by the road, fringed with young cocoa-palms, which serpentines across the luminous plain. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

A few seconds later the spoon went round the basin again and was followed by an audible sip, on hearing which Poole went to the window, thrust out his head, and began to whistle, keeping up his tune as if he were playing orchestra to a banquet, while he watched the dart and splash of a fish from time to time about the surface, and the shadowy shapes of others deep down below the schooner's stern-post, clearly enough seen in the crystal sunlit water set a-ripple by the gentle gliding through it of the vessel's keel. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"the muscles all a-ripple on his back," is almost quivering with anxious expectation. ❋ Unknown (1867)

shit, i would give that [redhead] in [accounting] the rippling of her [young life]..... ❋ Cdeluxe (2004)

"By the way, where's my Ripple? [I seen] this bitch with tha big ass nipples." "[Hey yo], gimme a trailload a bitches, and a case a Ripple and [I'm OUT]." ❋ Rollo (2005)

Mr. [Sanford]: [Champipple], champagne and [ripple] ❋ NduguJams (2005)

"Just like you can tell the difference between expensive and cheap [chocolates], you can tell if you're drinking a good wine or ripple." Wife: Where did that bottle of wine go? Husband: I tried some and it was awful. I dumped it [down the drain]. Wife: Oh well, it was just ripple anyway. Husband: Yeah, [it was on] sale at the supermarket. ❋ Noworriez (2012)

"$10? I ain't paying no $10 for some shitty ass [ripple] bitch!" "You better check [yoself] with that ripple...that [shit'll] make you go blind!" ❋ J Hall (2003)

When I threw a [pebble] to the [pond] I saw a [ripple] in the water surface. ❋ Talisi (2018)

"Got to go to the gym and [work off] these [ripples]" "That cake = ripples.... [nom nom nom]" ❋ Killertofu1905 (2010)

Do you want [a rim job] tonight, [honey]? No, not a rim job tonight, baby. I just want The Ripple. ❋ The Bum Gun (2016)

All of the [midgets] at the football game started to do [the Ripple] during [halftime] ❋ Sha-NAH-nah-nah (2011)

“You’re [a bit] of a [ripple] [mate]” ❋ Ortology (2020)