wavelets

We jumped up and down and the slim steel came fast in short wavelets; sounded as loud and piercing as a train rolling past.

Rahsaan as Orpheus 2007

He wore a close-fitting cap, from beneath which his thick hair fell in short wavelets that were tossed by the wind.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

The pity, love, and sorrow of that mother's heart were not to be read in her calm disciplined countenance, but I could see the emotions flow in short wavelets from her heart, through the arm that encircled the sick girl, into the hand that rhythmically contracted and expanded on the sharp little shoulder, rocking the child in the warm sun, against her own heart, and with her dark eyes looking into the future, in which she would have no more the child at her side to sway.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

There are of course other signal techniques such as wavelets and the like.

Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008

Gate, darkening the water, cresting tiny wavelets, making the sailboats fly.

CHAPTER XV 2010

She did not flutter forward like rippling wavelets on a reef-sheltered, placid beach.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

Snow shrugged his shoulders and gazed bleakly at the smooth surface of the lagoon, where tiny wavelets danced in the afternoon sun.

A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

The sea, white with fury, boiled in tiny, spitting wavelets.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

A smart breeze, kicking up spiteful wavelets on the wider reaches, splashed them with sheeted water as well as fine-flung spray.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

Not long after, just before darkness, they saw one jump overboard from that schooner's stern and strike out strongly for the Malahini through the white, spitting wavelets.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010