A broad and deep undulation of the ocean.
1His black hair heaved upon his skull like seaweed in a ground swell.
2The sea was as smooth as glass, save for a slight ground swell.
3A third aftershock began to make the ground swell and buck.
4I'm sure he's pleased at the ground swell -everybody knows his name now.
5We are in the ground swell of the war.
6The riders climbed steadily now, no longer engulfed in the ground swell of land waves.
7There's not much now but a light ground swell.
8It's not the tide, sir; it's a ground swell-froma storm somewhere out at sea.
9Our desk wallows mean-on to the earth's ground swell, and naturally is full of devils.
10There's even a little presidential ground swell going on.
11Now it was obvious that there was to be no compensating ground swell at the North.
12A gentle ground swell lifted me and I came down into the trough as it passed.
13After some time, their own Esquimaux hinted that there was a ground swell under the ice.
14As there is a heavy ground swell running, the canoes are bobbing up and down like corks alongside.
15Presently Hazel could look away over an area of woodland undulating like a heavy ground swell at sea.
16In N.Y. the maim object is to create a ground swell of public opinion that will influence other states.
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