undulating

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Its light silvered a path on the sea to us--a path that was bounded on one side by the bold, dark rocks of the southern shore of the cape, and whose limit to our right was as undefined as the undulating waters it was lost in.

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  1. Waving; vibrating; moving in waves. All the winds wandering along the shore Undulate with the undulating tide. Shelley, Epipsychidion.
  2. Having a form or outline resembling that of a series of waves; wavy. A stretch of country is said to be undulating when it presents a succession of elevations and depressions, resembling the waves of the sea. The Christ is a better character, has more beauty and grace than is usual with Rubens; the outline remarkably undulating, smooth, and flowing. Sir J. Reynolds.
  3. In zoology, undulate.

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  • There followed a period of waiting almost painful to officers and men, in its intense expectancy; and then across the broad, undulating, and highly cultivated valley swept the long attacking line of seventeen thousand rebel infantry, the very flower of the Confederate army. —  A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • —West through open forest; very undulating, and the path full of angular fragments of quartz. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • I could not resist taking advantage of the country to play a trick on "Bos" one day The land was undulating, and you know how it always seems as if one could surely see for miles beyond when the top of each divide is reached, and how one can go on all day over the constant rise and fall of the earth, thinking the next divide will reveal a vast stretch of country. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • The gaze, exhausted with immensity, pierces those deeply cloven valleys, sheltered from wind and open to the sun--undulating folds of brown earth, where Bacchus, when he visited Tuscany, found the grape-juice that pleased him best, and crowned the wine of Montepulciano king. —  New Italian sketches
  • There was no level ground; it was all undulating, and very trying to the springs. —  Diary in America, Series One
 

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