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  • Beowulf and his men brought the ship high up on the shore lest the billow's force might wreck it.

    Northland Heroes Florence Holbrook 1896

  • Frenchman a careless ease and courage and sprightliness of temper, which lifted him above danger, as a boat is lifted on a billow's shoulders.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

  • Of an unanchored boat on the wild billow's breast.

    Three Women Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887

  • And with each desperate billow's anguished fretting.

    The Kingdom of Love Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887

  • At that moment the ship rose on the billow's crest as if it were no heavier than a flake of the driving foam -- a crash followed -- it was gone, and the crew were left struggling in the sea.

    Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn 1859

  • Another moment and they slid down the billow's back into the trough between the seas.

    The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers 1859

  • For long tossed and tired by the billow's commotion,

    Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840

  • And was soon sick and sad with the billow's commotion.

    Poems Robert Southey 1808

  • "Hugged in the clinging billow's clasp, From seaweed fringe to mountain heather, The British oak with rooted grasp Her slender handful holds together, With cliffs of white and bowers of green, And ocean narrowing to caress her, And hills and threaded streams between,

    The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903

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