[…] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;

The snow fell hissing in the brine, / And the billows frothed like yeast.

But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship […]

The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.

And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.

1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.
Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?

During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […], billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, […]

The black clouds of mercury vapour constantly billowing from the hatter's workshops and out into the streets must have been a horrifying sight.

She had changed her auburn hair. Instead of wearing it in a billowing puff over her brow, she had gathered it into a ponytail, secured with a length of yellow yarn.

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