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Meanings of distant surf in English

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Usage of distant surf in English
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Through the trees there rose and fell the music of the distant surf.
With Edged Tools
2
With the breeze came the increased murmur of the distant surf.
With Edged Tools
3
The brawl of the streets came up to us like a distant surf.
The Night-Born
4
A sound as of a distant surf began to beat in her ears.
The Highgrader
5
Their hissing roared like distant surf, and the earth trembled beneath their feet.
The Lair of Bones
6
Then the youngsters held the shell to their ears, listening, imagining the distant surf.
The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
7
A moist wind brushed her face and distant surf pulsed like a slow heartbeat.
Night of Knives
8
The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
9
But there were no boats, apart from one upturned whaler rolling in the distant surf.
Atonement
10
The faint noises of the street behind them were the wash of a distant surf.
The Golem and the Jinni
11
Teskhamen paused, eyes still fixed on the distant surf.
Prince Lestat
12
I hear them rumbling in my soul-far ,faroff-likea distant surf on a windless night.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
13
Behind them the roar of traffic on downtown streets was like the faint murmur of distant surf.
The Hidden Places
14
Nothing but the faint and distant surf.
Night of Knives
15
Even the sound of his running or crawling would be disguised by the rising wind and crash of distant surf.
Drood: a novel
16
Almost from the first moment of my march, a faint large noise, like a distant surf, had filled my ears.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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Distant surf through the time