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billow
1. He was pressed close to a cute little dark girl with a billow of curls who questioned him at length about the life of someone his size
2. He tried to look at the black instead of the dust motes and he saw a rhythm in it, something like the billow of clouds or maybe rough building stone with the points of light being the mortar between them
3. “Who’s that?” he asked, but she turned and handed her bowl back to the cook and her sweet shape and billow of copper curls danced off down the path
4. The only billow of black curls like that in these parts was Marcue
5. summer and autumn – they always billow against the
6. what they first thought was a thunder clap but then saw the giant plume of smoke billow
7. Or have you already forgotten to whom it is that you speak?” She shook her head; the movement made the thick black veil billow slightly, and for a moment Tristan could see the outline of small, perfect lips and a slightly pointed chin
8. They heard a thunderous explosion and saw clouds of dust billow out from the cave opening and into their new world
9. example, you cannot see the wind but you see how trees and flags billow
10. White clouds gather and billow
11. still they wilted before the ceaseless billow,
12. He tries to fire up the trucks but the bullets have riddled the ovens, making steam billow out of the sides and windows
13. The gray billow of smoke from its chimney stack bent in the
14. “Or (the unbelievers, state) is like the depth of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds, Depths of darkness above another”
15. The second reference “overwhelmed with billow topped by billow” indicates two waves and undoubtedly they differ from each other
16. billow of white steam
17. Sheets billow in the breeze
18. Ingeborg watched her with bright alert eyes over the edge of a billow of feathers while she fetched a little table and brought it to the bed and arranged these things on it
19. Billow: The swelling of waves; a mound of water
20. As his suffocated lungs cried out in mute agony, panic flared wildly and in mad desperation he grabbed a billow at random, hauling the material to where he thought the line was
21. Then, in a billow of aftershave, he was gone
22. Hardly a billow
23. At last, fortunately for him, a billow rolled up with such fury and impetuosity that he was lifted up and thrown far on to the sands
24. Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard!
25. Weak new thermals off the blacktop ahead of it, and a low billow of dust behind it
26. Sir Bruhstair Ahbaht stood on HMS Broadsword’s quarterdeck and watched the sudden smoke billow up from HMS Restless
27. The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea
28. He was appreciating the soulful billow of his own breath before him when from behind the stone wall across the street, the darkened Park, came the most upsetting sound he’d ever heard
29. There was a sharp crash and a white billow of smoke
30. But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks
31. What is it more? From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone? Ah! constrainings seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee! Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, THAT voices thee
32. Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering flight, and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank in the sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin
33. He strolled into the surf, and a great billow lifted Jacqueline into his arms