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Sentences starting with wave

Wave a hand to me, duck your head to me, crack the whip or nod when I pass. [11]

Sentences ending with wave

You could _see_ the shudder sweep the mass like a wave. [5]
A part of the bow had been carried away and a small hole made just above the waterline, through which the water spurted whenever she encountered a large wave. [4]
Did you see that wave? [4]
It was the swan's first breasting the water,--bred on the desert sand, with vague dreams of lake and river, and strange longings as the mirage came and dissolved, and at length afloat upon the sparkling wave. [6]
The silence of surprise held its own for a moment, then was broken by a just audible ripple of merriment which swept the sea of faces like the wash of a wave. [5]
Here was Opportunity suddenly upon him, like a huge, curving, ponderous wave. [9]
Only to the Romany people would his last resting-place be known; it would be as obscure as the grave of him who was laid: "By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave. [11]
Here the pearls represent the foam on a wave. [10]
Joan tried to rally them and face them around, crying to them that victory was sure, but it did no good, they divided and swept by her like a wave. [5]
The youth sank into the depths, but the squire was thrown on shore by a powerful wave. [5]

Sentences containing wave two or more times

Oh, yes, wave on wave the good luck came sweeping in. [5]
When the ship moves in one direction there is one and the same wave ahead of it, when it turns frequently the wave ahead of it also turns frequently. [2]
Like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all. [2]

More example sentences with the word wave in them

There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
Then," she added, with a little wave of the hand towards the cable running down from Phil Boldrick's eyrie in the mountains, "then I want to see all that cable can do--all, remember. [11]
The Duke protested with a deprecatory wave of the fingers and a flash of the sharp eyes, and then, after a slight pause, said: "What is your name, monsieur? [11]
So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
Dignity and pride were both sustained by silence and a wave of the hand, which in fact said to the world, "Look you, my masters, they belong to Jean Jacques. [11]
A swift, hot wave, turning cold, passed over Venters. [13]
With a friendly wave the round figure of Mr. Orchardson disappeared over the side, and I knew that the time had come to say farewell. [9]
Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud. [11]
A counteracting, inhibiting wave passed through me. [9]
Yet with a wave of the hand thou hast blinded him, and his blow falls on the air. [11]
Yet with a wave of the hand he accepted the roll of bills, and signed the receipt with an air which said, "These forms must be observed, I suppose. [11]
Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
When, with a wave of his hand, he declined to sit down, she said: "Yes--yes--be seated! [10]
It sent a wave of fresh feeling over her. [11]
They shine and wave in redundant life. [4]
Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch. [2]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
But when I wake up, on Sunday morning, and it's my week and I feel the power all through me, oh, such a wave of exultation and thanksgiving goes surging over me, and I want to shout 'I can walk! [5]
As he stood waiting, the wonderful, ample life of her seemed to come like a wave towards him. [11]
What is the use of fighting against the seasons, or the tides, or the movements of the planetary bodies, or this ebb in the wave of life that flows through us? [6]
Then, with an upward wave of his fingers, he spoke in a mocking lightness, but without any of the malice which had first appeared in his tones, words from an old French song: "I say no more, my lady Mironton, Mironton, Mirontaine! [11]
She drew herself up, a gleam in her eyes like the crest of a blue wave in a storm. [9]
Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
The Pleiades were trembling in the wave before them, and the three great stars of Orion,--for these constellations were both glittering in the eastern sky. [6]
The three got to their feet, and each made obeisance after his kind- Buonespoir ducking awkwardly, his blue eyes bulging with pleasure, Lempriere swelling with vanity and spreading wide acknowledgment of their presence, the fool condescending a wave of welcome. [11]
He was ready to see beauty everywhere:-- "Thou can'st not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. [6]
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
At the same time the banners and streamers on every flagpole, stirred by a light breeze from the east, began to wave in the sunny August air. [10]
Now as she thought of it a hot wave shivered through all her body, and tingled to her hair. [11]
It seems as though it were the union of voices innumerable rather than the seabreeze, which flutters the pennons and flags which wave from every house and arch, and sways the garlands hung across the street. [10]
The Undertaker's Apprentice, thinking this a reflection upon his arrangements, said, with a wave of the hand to the rope: "Nannin, ch'est tres ship-shape, Maitre! [11]
But the wave they feel to be rising does not come from the quarter they expect. [2]
She was sitting there one day when a wave came up and washed her away into the ocean. [4]
We could see them lift their feet and put them down; we saw them swing their alpenstocks forward in unison, like so many pendulums, and then bear their weight upon them; we saw the lady wave her handkerchief. [5]
They threw open their windows to wave at her, but Virginia pressed her lips and stared straight ahead. [9]
The sight of the woman, as she stood with arms outstretched, had made his pulses pound in his veins, but the heat was suddenly chilled by the wave of tragedy which had passed over him. [11]
So heavy was the surf that now and then the spray of some foiled wave broke on the roof, but she only nodded at that, as though the sea were calling her to come forth, tapping on her rooftree in joyous greeting. [11]
What wonder that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, [More strictly, ninety-six grains in two hours. [3]
Never mind about the smaller waves, let us come to the largest one of all, the wave that swept us small fry quite off our feet and almost drowned us with joy. [5]
The murmur of the ripples came up from the strand as soothing and inviting as the song of the Nereids; and if a white crest of foam rose on a wave, she could fancy it was the arm of Thetis or Galatea. [10]
The gates of the Palace closed on the last of Pango Dooni's men, and with a wild cry they rode like a monstrous wave upon the rebel mob. [11]
Loose me from the mast, and let the storm and wave wash me out into the sea of your forgetfulness now--or never! [11]
A flush tinged the livid features of the invalid, prematurely aged monarch, and at a wave of his hand the foster-mother left him and his companion alone with the little one. [10]
He believed in the gold standard, for one thing; in the tariff (left unimpaired in its glory) for another, and with a wave of his hand would indicate the prosperity of the nation which surrounded him,--a prosperity too sacred to tamper with. [9]
Nothing stirred except the gentle wave of the tips of the brush. [13]
From the window-sill the dove, caught up on the wave of wind, sailed away down the widening glade. [11]
They have escaped the dangers of the wave, and lie still henceforth, evermore. [6]
Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies. [5]
The sails flapped, the boat seemed to hover for a moment, and then a wave swept her towards the rocks. [11]
The wave on the barricade quivered, and then Gabrielle's voice was heard crying, "Avenge him! [11]
But now no tender wave of feeling swept over him as he recalled those words. [9]
A hot wave swept over her, Was she never to hear the end of this man. [9]
And that first Sunday he came, when I saw him get up in the pulpit and wave that long arm of his, all I could think of was a modern Savonarola. [9]
And yet a sudden wave of pity for her rushed over him, because the conviction seized him that she would also in her heart take upon herself the burden of his guilt as though it were her own. [11]
Then it stood still, as a wave might hang for an instant at its crest ere it swept down to beat upon the shore. [11]
He dismissed the stenographer by the wave of a hand which seemed to thrust her bodily out of the room. [9]
I give a specimen verse: The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold; And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. [5]
As she did so a wave of weakness passed over her, and she swayed as though she would fall; but she put a hand on herself and fought her growing agitation. [11]
When they caught sight of a young and pretty woman on the edge of the path, they would wave a greeting; and many expressed their admiration of Melissa in a very insolent manner. [10]
Else how would she have permitted him to escape uninjured when he was already standing upon the verge of an abyss, and a wave of her hand would have sufficed to hurl him into the death-dealing gulf? [10]
In her exile she had learned enough to know that a divorced woman is like a rudderless ship at sea, at the mercy of wind and wave and current. [9]
Come to me!--thou shalt feed on honied words, Sweeter than song of birds;-- No wailing bulbul's throat, No melting dulcimer's melodious note, When o'er the midnight wave its murmurs float, Thy ravished sense might soothe With flow so liquid-soft, with strain so velvet-smooth. [6]
You should have seen the wave go to pieces and scatter! [5]
Nay, I remember scarcely any other powerful wave of the intellect visible during this period of stagnation. [10]
Venters thought he saw him wave his arms and was certain of it when the riders dashed into the sage, to right and left of the trail. [13]
Again the purple sage, magnified in color and size and wave, for long moments irritated her with its monotony. [13]
But the wave rose up maliciously, foot by foot, till it drowned their cries for ever in the storm. [11]
When Austen, in response to the doctor's telephone message, stood over the iron bed in the spick-and-span men's ward of St. Mary's, a wave of that intense feeling he had experienced at the accident swept over him. [9]
A wave of renewed affection for his father swept over him, of affection and pity and admiration, and for the instant he forgot Mr. Flint. [9]
A wave of remorseful feeling rushed over him. [11]
We formed the regiment in the fort,--backwoodsman and Creole now to fight for their common country, Jacques and Pierre and Alphonse; and mother and father, sweetheart and wife, waiting to wave a last good-by. [9]
The strawberries, the raspberries, the celery, the turnips, wave green above the clean earth, with no enemy in sight. [4]
As she passed Publius she said with a farewell wave of her pretty hand. [10]
The sun rose presently and sent its unobstructed splendors over the land, and we saw a prodigious host moving slowly toward us, with the steady drift and aligned front of a wave of the sea. [5]
The garden was perfectly still, the sea seemed to slumber, and, if a wave lapped the shore, it was with a low, almost inaudible murmur. [10]
Young Mr. Hill paused while sharpening his pencil to wave him a friendly greeting. [9]
And like an overwhelming wave of emotion that swept all before it, the impressiveness of wealth took possession of me. [9]
There has come over this country within the last generation, as everybody knows, a great wave of condemnation of pie. [4]
Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed the door himself behind him. [2]
Suddenly there swept over David a wave of feeling such as had passed over Kaid, though of a different nature. [11]
Quiet and pale ordinarily, his clear russet-brown hair falling in a wave over his forehead, when roused, he seemed like some delicate engine made to do great labours. [11]
These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. [2]
He had intended only to wave a greeting to his Els and then ride to Neumarkt, or, if necessary, as far as Ingolstadt, to meet the wains. [10]
Now and then one of Higbie's oars would trip on the top of a wave, and the other one would snatch the boat half around in spite of my cumbersome steering apparatus. [5]
As they sped on, lurching, jumping, piercing a broken wall of wave and spray like a torpedo, shooting an almost sheer fall, she came to rely on a sense of intuition rather than memory, for night had transformed the waters. [11]
A furious gust of wind shook the windows, and a great wave of snow washed against them with a drenching sound, so to speak. [5]
Was the Master of the World angry that day when, with a besom of wind and a tidal wave, He swept the place into the sea? [11]
We have heard of the hot wave every Wednesday, per the weekly paper--we allow no dailies to intrude. [5]
With a wave of the hand, Gabriel Druse ordered the cortege forward, and silently the procession with its yellow banners and its sable, drooping plumes moved on. [11]
With a wave of the hand she declined the seat. [11]
With a wave of the hand Gaston dismissed him. [11]
A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. [2]
Many a wave of the fan rewarded, many an angry glance from men's dark eyes rebuked the bold wooer. [10]
But this wave of sensation led to no oblivion, no last soothing intoxication. [11]
Then a wave of self-reproach swept over me. [9]
Our next wave of it was of this sort. [5]
Then a look of intense excitement suddenly possessed him, and there--passed over him a wave of feeling which transformed him. [11]
The gracious wave of his right hand showed that he had expected to see different people from convicts and, ere the shouts of the hapless men had died away, his eyes again closed. [10]
With a wave of his hand, enjoining silence, Tull stepped forward in such a way that he concealed Venters. [13]

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