Repeated episodes of abrasion and minor bioerosion with modest levels of sorting characterize the taphonomy of the phosphate conglomerate and are consistent with a shallow-marine-to-brackish-water depositional environment between fair-weather and storm-wave base. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2008)
The storm-wave height of the lower deck was fifty feet, leaving a gap between the deck and the surface of the sea; but in this area it was almost dark and the girders gave a network of cover. ❋ Hall, Adam (1975)
Then anger leaped on me like a storm-wave, drumming in my head and shaking my body, so that I was almost mad. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
He is the foe of all others; he is a power irresistible; the storm-wave that drowneth, the glitter of ice is that well-favoured man. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
As he dropped this letter into the box a storm-wave of his former bitterness and self-accusation swept over him. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
A huge storm-wave of yellow dust was rolling out of the southwest; beyond it the heavens were copper-green, and back of that, midnight darkness; while, borne onward by its force, low waves of prairie fire were swept along the ground. ❋ Margaret Hill McCarter (1899)
Like two white water-lilies on storm-wave wild that rest, ❋ Unknown (1894)
Jews and lunatics at a fire in Ancona; aged lazzaroni who get caught in a sudden storm-wave at Naples; and this in spite of the convenient-inconvenient blood-vessels which break when it is necessary, but still make it quite easy for him to perform these Herculean feats and resume his rather interim military duties when he pleases. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
For all about here -- and this here island o 'Barbados in partic'lar -- I've heard tell be subject to the most dreadful hurricanes that it's possible for mortal man to imagine, and we don't want to go in there and have our ship hove half a mile up into the woods by a storm-wave so that she won't be no more use to us. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
If he was the breakwater, she was the storm-wave, driven by the gale -- by the wind from afar, of which she felt herself the sport, and sometimes the victim -- without its changing her purpose in the least. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Our storm-wave was but part of a system of aggression which the sea is carrying out upon these coasts. ❋ John Huntley Skrine (1885)
And, finally, there had risen upon them a storm-wave of feeling -- tyrannous, tempestuous -- bursting in reproach and agitation, leaving behind it, bare and menacing, the old, ugly facts, unaltered and unalterable. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Even so the sterner phenomena of nature -- whirlwind and tempest, lightning and thunder, flood and storm-wave, plague, pestilence, and famine; all of these oftentimes assume in the East a character of awful majesty before which man cowers in helplessness and despair. ❋ William Muir (1859)
The white men drove even black union men out of their unions and when the black men, beaten by night and assaulted, flew to arms and shot back at the marauders, five thousand rioters arose and surged like a crested storm-wave, from noonday until midnight; they killed and beat and murdered; they dashed out the brains of children and stripped off the clothes of women; they drove victims into flames and hanged the helpless to the lighting poles. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)
Most fortunately the cyclone, having come from a different direction, was not accompanied by a storm-wave such as that which worked so much mischief amongst the shipping on a former occasion, but the destruction on land was even greater: all the finest trees were torn up by the roots, a great part of the Native bazaar was levelled, and lay from two to three feet deep in water, while many houses were wholly or partly demolished. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
-- those weeks that I stood by your side and saw her paint for us her beautiful, terrible pictures of Life, pictures whose blue was the storm-wave and the sky veiled with fever-haze, whose white was the roaring surf and the glare of thunderbolts, whose red was fire and blood! ❋ Robert Ames Bennet (1912)
With a yell of indescribable fury the blast struck us, and as the storm-wave boiled in over our taffrail and swept along the deck, filling it to the level of the rail and taking with it in its rush for'ard every movable thing in its way, I saw the storm trysail fill, with a terrific jerk of the doubled sheets, and then go flying away out of the bolt-ropes like a sheet of tissue paper. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
-- when really a big storm-wave caught her from shore and whirled her to mid-sea, out of every sensibility but the swimming one of her loss of self in the man. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
