undulation

• The reeds swayed in a quivering line of undulation, as though something were moving through them--something swift and mighty and terrible--and so it was. —  The Sign of the Spider
• The undulation is the work of two collaborators: it expresses both the nature of the object which provokes it and that of the nervous apparatus which is its vehicle. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
• Supposing that sensibility increases for the variable elements of the undulation, and becomes insensible for the constant elements. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
• Vibration is the movement of a body in a state of tension,--undulation, that of a body absolutely lax. —  The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884
• As it rolls in upon the shore the front of the undulation is retarded by the friction of the bottom in such a measure that its speed is diminished, while the following part of the waves, being less checked, crowds up toward this forward part. —  Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

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