"I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' - Seamus Heaney words, interesting words. From Wordnik.com. [of course, I could be wrong...] Reference
Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
I heard cool waters plash and green leaves quiver. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
Turning dry bent to bog, and to plash-pools the heather. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
It fell for several seconds before she heard a faint plash. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
With its murmurous plash of waters perfume-laden of the rose. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
A pump by the road side, with a plash round it, was a bewitching sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829] Reference
Gaelic; 'we'll make a sailor-man out o' your whelp, 'and the oars began to plash. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
A motor boat chugged a few times, the plash of an oar followed, then more shouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat] Reference
The only sound was the plash of the waterman's sculls and the grinding of the rowlocks. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
TRUMP: The critics aren ` t agreeing with her, and the plash (ph) of "The View" is way down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2007] Reference
There was not the faintest sound made, save for the regular plash of the rising and falling oars. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
As he knelt in the bow and fumbled with the painter, the plash of oars sounded a dozen yards away. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Silence reigned supreme but for the steady plash of the raindrops as they rattled on the pavements. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Four Fingers] Reference
The foam, melting, hissed and sighed, and everything was filled with the musical plash and cadence. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
There was a faint plash as the green veil of weeds was lifted aside, exposing an underwater passage. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
"If," I said, "you were a fountain and wanted to be poetical, you would plash, instead of splashing.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917] Reference
Down deeper and deeper sank the laugh -- then it died away -- then a faint plash -- and all was silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
There was a rattle of heavy chains, and a loud plash as the anchor slipped down in the darkening waters. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The plash of blood was heard, as the life-current burst from his wound, and, "Go now," he said in his low calm voice. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
In the way the fellow was to ride was a great plash of water of a good depth: through this must he of necessity ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Here and there a freshet, born of the storm, descended in a slender line of silver to plash noisily into the quiet water. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
A whizzing sound! then a plash, and he disappeared beneath the surface, throwing up the water into sparkling foam-wreaths. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
The town lay in pitch darkness, all silent except for the plash of the sea upon the shore or its long roll on the Ramparts. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Through all the heat is heard the constant plash of the two superb fountains, that wave to and fro their veils of white spray. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Danube and listening to the ripple, the plash and the gurgle of the swollen stream as it rushed impetuously against the banks. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Countryside: Poland, a rained-on morning, the distant plash of milk into wooden pails sounds thinner than its clotted creaminess. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
Presently the plash of oars from the dark, silent river broke the stillness, and a little boat bearing four men came to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
On the approach of strange footsteps they hurry off the flat rocks by the pool, and one hears a musical plash as they reach water. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Except their quick and unintelligible murmurs, and the plash and hiss of water, nothing else broke the torturing hush of expectation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
The plash of the water, falling into the rocky basin, was the only sound that broke the Sabbath-like silence that pervaded the valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
The fading plash of her oars carried back to shore and Sabin smiled to hear the sound because it heralded the success of his scheming. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Suddenly, plunged in dreams as I walked along, I heard through the plash of the waves and the sizzle of the foam the unfamiliar words. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
They could hear the curlew whistling and the plover calling amid that monotonous plash of the waves that murmured all around the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Her throat had grown tight, her eyes were hot and burning, the sound, as of the plash of waves, sang in her ears; but she could not cry. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Mr. Raleigh once in a while sent them far along with a strong stroke, then only an occasional plash broke the charm of perfect stillness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
The creak of straining rowlocks and the even plash of dripping oars, muffled by the numbing curtain of the fog, broke through the silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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