sea-swell

• “In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying.”

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• “The long sea-swell could be seen breaking over the rocks in the bay, forming a foamy fringe.”

  The Mysterious Island

• “On the contrary, all the part of the shore between Falls River and Reptile End was a mass of wood, magnificent trees, some straight, others bent, so that the long sea-swell bathed their roots.”

  The Mysterious Island

• “The impact of seeing her hit me like a tidal sea-swell, stopping the very breath in my lungs.”

  Kushiel's Avatar

• “It felt strangely familiar to have the sensation of sea-swell beneath my feet, and I soon recovered the trick of swaying to balance myself with it.”

  Kushiel's Avatar

• “The two shores fell away; our prows pitched in a sea-swell.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “But the heroes, when the contest was ended without fear, loosed the ship's hawsers to the breath of the wind and pressed on through the sea-swell.”

  The Argonautica

• “It sweeps War's lengthening coast, where each sea-swell”

  Freedom, Truth and Beauty

• “The party of adventurers sat on their mattress raft in the midst of the wide ocean, with never a ship to be seen; the long sea-swell rolled placidly over the place where their ship had been.”

  The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure

• “Can't you almost catch the spray and sea-swell in its dashing measures, boys?”

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