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Meanings of wave upon in English

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Usage of wave upon in English
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Fallion had felt despair in the prison, wave upon wave of it.
Sons of the Oak
2
Now, dry white stalks of straw wave upon the mouldering balustrades.
The Day of Wrath
3
Thus the runner feels wave upon wave of exhaustion followed by waves of invigoration.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business / A Contribution to the ...
4
Like everywhere else in China, Shaoxing was inundated by wave upon wave of consumerism.
Enigma of China
5
My childhood is wave upon wave upon wave of misery.
The Guardian
6
As comes the wave upon the salt sea shore
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and...
7
Glancing down, he caught the flash of a wave upon the black rocks far below.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
8
Its incredible advance, wave upon wave of massed and silent whiteness, had held him spellbound.
The Window-Gazer
9
The sincere little compliment beat on Mrs. Falconer's ear like a wave upon a stone.
The Choir Invisible
10
South Africa concede the inevitable penalty after wave upon wave of England attack crashes over them.
The Guardian
11
I have heard him on the cog with a voice like the wave upon the shore.
The White Company
12
Winds blew up the field like wave upon wave of sweet savour-spice of bracken and balsam.
The Story Girl
13
But after a time, slowly, wave upon wave, the sea of Peace rolled over her-submerging her.
The Precipice: A Novel
14
On 31 October, wave upon wave of British and French bombers swept down upon the Egyptian coast.
The Guardian
15
The ocean, too, was fearfully agitated, and wave upon wave with loud roars rolled towards the beach.
The Mate of the "Lily"; Or, Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book
16
For every wave upon the sands
The Child's World: Third Reader
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