whitecaps

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I could see the stiff whitecaps, and the suck and run of the current was plainly visible in the face and trough of each one.

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  • Then the wind whipped the sea into whitecaps, and the rain swept in undulating sheets across the land, like a lace curtain in the breeze, and I had a horrible feeling that in looking for divine assistance I had blasphemed, and the gods were warning me with this rain. —  Celtic Riddle
  • Out at sea, beyond the mountains, whitecaps are coaxed to life by an offshore breeze that's beginning to blow. —  The Telegram: Local News
  • "There are a lot fewer whitecaps, and that makes it easier to see a person or a boat." —  American Chronicle
  • The gulf was covered with big whitecaps, and visibility sometimes dropped to 200 yards as 25-knot winds lashed the shore with rainsqualls. —  Freep.com - RSS
  • The basin has whitecaps, demanding real seamanship to avoid taking water over the gunwales.
 

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