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This remarkable display device consists of fifty water-wave generators surrounding a cylindrical tank 5 feet wide and a foot deep.
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“I used to tell you I was turning into a people-wave to stop the water-wave…” How do I remember, Dad?
The Worst Thing I've Done Ursula Hegi 2007
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Some women also were creeping about: peasant women, in the funny little black hats that had thick gold under the brim and long black streamers of ribbon, broad, black, water-wave ribbon starting from a bow under the brim behind and streaming right to the bottom of the skirt.
The Captain's Doll 2003
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When a sound-wave strikes the ear, we hear; when a light-wave, moving like a water-wave, reaches the eye, we see.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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When nobody dropped in she would go upstairs and spend the hour or so before bedtime in the rites of cold cream, massage, and in placing the little combs of what Leslie had learned was called a water-wave.
The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Do you suppose a water-wave is like a harp-string?
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 John Ruskin 1859
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The water-wave was felt on the coast of New Zealand sixteen hours after it had set a United States gunboat, on the sand-hills of
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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The actual instability of individual waves is "saturated" through the broadening of the wave spectrum, thus the water-wave system temporarily stabilises itself.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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It explains how the water-wave system evolves, behaves and, above all, how it stabilises itself.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The actual instability of individual waves is "saturated" through the broadening of the wave spectrum, thus the water-wave system temporarily stabilises itself.
innovations-report 2010
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