Another fire started on October 16, 2006 around 11 a.m., this time in an executive building on the waterfront.Smoke could be seen billowing up more than in the air from miles away.…
Mile upon mile, league after league, east, west, north, south, far as the eye could reach, spread the leafy roof of the forest, seemingly illimitable, boundless, vast as the ocean, a sea of trees.And like a sea the forest rose and fell in huge billows.On either hand great mountains reared their huge bulk heavenward.…Cited from The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol, by Lewis E. Theiss
There is the obituary of the destitute dead, who die on the sea.They die, like the billows that break on the shore, and no more are heard or seen.But in the events, thus merely initialized in the catalogue of passing occurrences, and but glanced at by the readers of news, who are more taken up with paragraphs of fuller flavor; what a world of Me and death, what a world of humanity and its woes, lies shrunk into a three-worded sentence!…Cited from Redburn. His First Voyage, by Herman Melville
So, too, when the last light of the setting sun burned out on the western billows.Thus was the reign of the spirit of evil abolished, and the mountain consecrated to the praise of Him who made the hills and the isles of the sea.…Cited from A Child's Book of Saints, by William Canton
The big wave comes up the river at the rate of twenty miles an hour.All boats run for the middle of the river, where the billow does not break against the shore.Ships often part their cables, and knock themselves to pieces against the walls.…Cited from Across India, by Oliver Optic
We shall do best simply to note each billow as it breaks.The first point is the impressing of Simon to bear the Cross.…Cited from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark, Maclaren
When I saw on the lower end a child's finely beaded moccasin, I confess I had rather felt the point of Le Grand Diable's dagger at my own heart than have shown that simple thing to Hamilton.Then the snow-storm broke upon us in white billows blotting out everything.We spread a sheet on the ground to preserve any marks of the campers, but the drifting wind drove us indoors and we were compelled to cease searching.…Cited from Lords of the North, by A. C. Laut
Destiny for us, who speak of it, is an unknown sea whose waves, indeed, drive steadily onward before strong winds, but whose shore is still far distant.We know that we men of the hour can never see these billows break upon the sands of future time.But today we may look forward to stupendous events; today there are mighty epiphanies quickening earth, not to be assigned to periods of future time, but at hand, so near that our living selves shall see their birth, and participate in their consequences.…Cited from New York Times Current History: The European War, Jun 1915, V. 2, No. 3
If I am only purified and made entirely the Lord's, let Him take His own course and make the refining process ever so painful."When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past?"…Cited from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George L. Prentiss
As we again reached the top of a billow, I caught sight of an object at no great distance.At first I thought it was a rock just above the water, but on looking again, I saw it was a piece of wreck, and on it was seated a human being.…Cited from In the Eastern Seas, by W.H.G. Kingston
There is a roll in the ground, and the towers just appear above the pitch of the roof, as though the good ship were bowing lazily over an Atlantic swell.At any moment it might be a hundred feet away from you, climbing the next billow.At any moment a window might open, and some old admiral thrust forth a cocked hat, and proceed to take an observation.…Cited from Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, by R.L. Stevenson
As for Hawksley, he knew he had but little time.The floor was billowing; he saw many candles where he knew there was only one.…Cited from The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath
Was she in her right place, in this soft-cushioned carriage, among these tyrants and blood-suckers?Should she not rather be out there in the billowing mass, among the children of hate?Half-forgotten thoughts and feelings thrust up their heads like beasts of prey which have long lain bound.…Cited from Tales of Two Countries, by Alexander Kielland
Midway Jean and the boy were coming on, stumbling across the sand left bare by a receding wave, dashing to the ragged base of the cliff and clinging to it while the incoming comber broke and seethed about them, then rushing on again!Owing to the storm of the past days the billows were higher than usual.Also there was yet the most dangerous portion of the way to be traversed.…Cited from Where the Sun Swings North, by Barrett Willoughby
It filled the screen as they increased the power, but all they could see was billowing clouds.Cited from Islands of Space, by John W Campbell
And yet it was a pride to see how man -- strong in his godlike will -- could bid defiance to those whelming surges, and bravo their wrath unharmed.We swung up and down on the billows, till we scarcely knew which way to stand.The most grave and sober personages suddenly found themselves reeling in a very undignified manner, and not a few measured their lengths on the slippery decks.…Cited from Views a-foot, by J. Bayard Taylor
But we can't talk in this awful crush.It's like trying to stand up against big billows on a stormy day.…Cited from The Dictator, by Justin McCarthy
The glitter of buttons and the pomp of showy uniforms?The general's staff watching the course of the action by the billows of black smoke?Gone where the railroad sent the stage-coach, electricity sent the candle and horse-drawn street-cars, serum sent diphtheria, the knife sent the appendix, and rifled cannon and explosive shells sent the wooden walls of old ships of the line.…Cited from The Last Shot, by Frederick Palmer
He rolled so near to Guy's feet that the latter dropped the rope in his haste as he leaped towards the drowning man.He caught him round the waist just as the broken billow began to rush back.For one moment Guy stood firm, but as the retiring water gathered force his limbs quivered, the gravel rolled from beneath his feet, and he was swept off his legs!…Cited from The Lifeboat, by R.M. Ballantyne
Their pathos was almost vibrant in the dim November light.And away beyond them were a series of great heaps, looking like broad billows out to sea.…Cited from Waysiders, Stories of Connacht, by Seumas O'Kelly
