Meanings of recurrent waves in English

And it was a tasking of her energies equal to the buffeting of recurrent waves on deep sea.

And all the while the hair of his neck and shoulders bristled in recurrent waves of ferocity and wrath.

One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.

It was slow work, for now that the stimulus of action was gone, his weakness grew on him in recurrent waves.

He stalked stiff-legged, with a snarl writhen on his lips, and with recurrent waves of hair-bristling along his back and up his shoulders and neck.