white-caps

The white-caps make getting near the water a risky proposition.

We’re In The Windy City… 2008

Water, blown by the wind in crinkling curves & long lines, is frozen white, & a stretch of it up the slope of the grassy hill gives the aspect of a section of green sea with wimpling white-caps chasing each other over it.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Water, blown by the wind in crinkling curves & long lines, is frozen white, & a stretch of it up the slope of the grassy hill gives the aspect of a section of green sea with wimpling white-caps chasing each other over it.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The milky gray sky presses down on green-blackness, wind churning up white-caps, rain advancing in sheets.

Hurricane 2005

Now, out there was a blue shading, made by a magic pencil; land, his land, where he was going to become the beloved comrade of all the friends whose likenesses he saw in the white-caps flashing before him.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Scenes scrolled up over the white-caps—Hutch working dawn to dusk without complaint; Hutch saving to buy his wife a new and finer wedding band for their fiftieth wedding anniversary, though she was terminally ill; Hutch standing at the side of the truck that September morning when Noah left for college, watching him go, just watching, not moving an inch until the ferry was out of sight.

The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004

Scenes scrolled up over the white-caps—Hutch working dawn to dusk without complaint; Hutch saving to buy his wife a new and finer wedding band for their fiftieth wedding anniversary, though she was terminally ill; Hutch standing at the side of the truck that September morning when Noah left for college, watching him go, just watching, not moving an inch until the ferry was out of sight.

The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004

Occasionally she would raise her eyes and look out at the gray sea which had white-caps on it.

Une Vie 2003

The wind had swept the snow into shallow waves, ice gleamed as it caught the sun like flat white-caps.

lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003

Its grey was suffusing with a steely blue and still bore many white-caps, but the horizon was visible and so were other ships, some to larboard, some to starboard, and two so far astern that they were hull down, only their masts showing.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000