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  • Weakly, sedately, yet not lacking mincing precision, Peter slowly followed the margin of the rippleless sea.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Flight seems automatic — steady, fairly swift, rippleless.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • A few minutes past the deck glistened in the sun as each rollicking billow sent its herald over the bows, and here the surface of the river is almost rippleless.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • After the raid, St. Biaise checked over the equipment of those who got back to base and found nothing wrong: all the crystals on frequency, the power supplies rippleless as could be expected-but others remembered how, for the few moments the visitation lasted, even static vanished from the earphones.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • But, when the morning broke, the pitiless lake shone clear and still, and all the hopelessness of his search flashed on the bereaved man's mind: he dropped his oars, and gazed vacantly over the rippleless surface.

    Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

  • "Good by," said Hughie and Ben, once more; and then they bent to their task, churning into foam the rippleless surface, which bore them on its swift but unnoticeable tide towards home, leaving behind their comrade, his savage companion, and their boyish associates, to experience adventures without parallel in all the strange hunting-lore of those northern seas.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Orange and willow-trees were reflected in the clear depths of the rippleless flow, and lured by its beauty, the responsiveness of my craft, and an unusual cheerfulness, I foolishly overdid my strength.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • A few minutes past the deck glistened in the sun as each rollicking billow sent its herald over the bows, and here the surface of the river is almost rippleless.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Flight seems automatic -- steady, fairly swift, rippleless.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • In his white, still, rippleless way, Senator Hanway hated in his soul's soul the name of Governor Obstinate.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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