Series of waves generated by distant weather systems.
1 The size of the ocean swell was unprecedented and unexpected, Mr Kokshoorn said.
2 The rattling in the rigging stopped and the ocean swell broke on our stern.
3 The planks were warm beneath him; the ship rocked with the familiar ocean swell .
4 The arrival of a true ocean swell meant that the pack had been dispersed.
5 Before sunset they were out in the open, and could feel the long ocean swell .
6 The unknown dangers of the ocean swell in my eyes to ten times their natural magnitude.
7 Early in the afternoon, as the boat slipped lazily over the gentle ocean swell , he died.
8 On came the three canoes, the half-naked, stalwart rowers sending them quickly over the ocean swell .
9 And here he lies, rocking, rocking, on no lake, but on a red stately-heaving ocean swell .
10 But the white man smiled, and said his boat was too heavily laden to face the ocean swell .
11 Hardly a ripple appeared on the smooth surface, though they rose and fell gently to the flat ocean swell .
12 An epiphany washed over me, refreshing like lazy ocean swell , and a cool iron whisper of truth feathered my skin.
13 About 200 people had to be evacuated in the Marshall Islands on Wednesday as an ocean swell flooded the capital, Majuro.
14 My first thought was an earthquake, but all around us the graveyard earth was rising and falling, lifting like an ocean swell .
15 The barbarians were yelling battle cries, taunting the defenders, the sound of their voices rolling towards the redoubt like an ocean swell .
16 The day was windless and the sea smooth save for the ocean swell which made shorewards in a long procession of round-topped waves.
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