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Meanings of white crests in English

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Usage of white crests in English
1
It lay leaden and dull, tufted with little white crests of foam.
The Splendid Folly
2
A rough iron-blue sea pounded the shore in white crests and spray.
Blood and Bone
3
The waves rose high and broke in white crests of foam.
Stories of Birds
4
Gray seas look hard; white crests moving across gray seas look hard too.
The U-boat hunters
5
The white crests of the hills made the sharper points of the horizon line.
A Florida Sketch-Book
6
Behind the house-tops, so close and near, lies a quarter circle of white crests.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
7
The tower of Amara faded in the sunshine above the white crests of the dunes.
The Garden of Allah
8
The wind blew in chilly gusts, and the sea broke in white crests of foam.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
9
The white crests of the waves which galloped alongside flaked the darkness with ominous signalings.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
10
It was a fine, bright night; all moon and stars, and white crests of waves.
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
11
Great crags, broad sands, and huge waves tossing their white crests now met their eyes.
The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories
12
Before them spread the plain of Lombardy, and beyond it the white crests of the Alps.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
13
Small white crests were appearing on the sea.
And Then There Were None
14
Boisterous waves, loaded with reddish seaweed, blue, with white crests, torn off in long ribbons by wind.
Doctor and Patient
15
Bolitho looked at the cruising white crests.
Beyond the Reef
16
It crashed against the high coast to the right and left of the bay with dirty white crests.
Self's punishment
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