foam-crested

The ferrymen recrossed, pulled our saddle horses by ropes into the river, the gopa held them; again the scow and her frantic crew, poling, paddling, and yelling, were hurried broadside down, and as they swept past there were glimpses above and among the foam-crested surges of the wild-looking heads and drifting forelocks of two grey horses swimming desperately for their lives, — a splendid sight.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Going up and then down a steep, wooded hill, the road appeared to return to its original state of brushwood, and the men stopped at the broken edge of a declivity which led down to a shingle bank and a foam-crested river of clear, blue-green water, strongly impregnated with sulphur from some medicinal springs above, with a steep bank of tangle on the opposite side.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It came as suddenly as a dry streambed filling with the high, foam-crested roar of water from a cloudburst.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

It came as suddenly as a dry streambed filling with the high, foam-crested roar of water from a cloudburst.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

It came as suddenly as a dry streambed filling with the high, foam-crested roar of water from a cloudburst.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

Their raked bows cut through the foam-crested swells like heavy knives, and smoke billowed from their stacks and their squat gun turrets.

The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

The breeze was fresh and fair; the sea tossed gayly its foam-crested waves; sea-birds soared in wider circles, and the clouds shook out their fleecy folds, through which the sunlight streamed in grateful warmth: the two ghosts were talking, as ever, of home, of earth, of land.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

Earl Sigurd, he rides o'er the foam-crested brine,

Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Elva S. Smith

Even under the smaller spread the _Gull_ shot along over the foam-crested waves like some speeding motor boat.

Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island Vance Barnum

And extending clear across the valley was the foam-crested wave charging down upon the lowlands, but a number of miles away.

Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson