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So she put foot upon the log, and, with the eyes of the alien people upon her, walked down into the foam-white swirl.
CHAPTER 3 2010
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A wide fissure, with hopelessly vertical sides, yawned skywards from a foam-white vortex where the mad waters shot their level a dozen feet upward and dropped it as abruptly to the black depths of battered rock and writhing weed.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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We both see the long hair, the lifted and foam-white arm, the oval mirror brilliant as a star.
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Or can you still see it, dark, blue, and green, and foam-white, and hear it roaring roughly when the wind is high, or rushing softly when it is calm? ...
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The lookout points astern, where a wake, almost foam-white, arrows toward the big Hamorian cruiser.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Oh, then he felt like a forlorn little baby, indeed; for it was not pleasant to be whipped, and that sometimes cruelly, when he didn't know any better; for all the big gulls looked alike, with their foam-white bodies and their pearl-gray capes, and they were all bringing food; so how could he know who were and who were not his Father and Mother Gull?
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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"We must wait awhile for our friends, Miss Weston; I see they are in the rear," and he spread his shawl upon a rock, motioning her to be seated, close by the foam-white waves.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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Phil did not get out of its way, for he could not; but, just as the animal was rolling upon him, a great wave lifted him high on its foam-white crest and hurled him against a cotton-bale.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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Of masque and music, of dreams like foam-white swans
The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence Rachel Annand Taylor
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I came up through the sea and I danced upon the shore of the island, and the play of the waves was in my dance, and my long soft green hair fell over my foam-white, foam soft body.
The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926
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