If ever it comes into my life again (a friend or family with breast cancer) a billow is the ideal gift. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift? For Me? You Shouldn't Have!] Reference
"If you watch them over a few hours, they kind of billow upwards the same way thunderheads do on Earth.". From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
The ship leaps, as it were, from billow to billow. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The Naiad and the Dryad met in billow and in spar. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
The impetus of the rising billow sent me past them. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Dashes on our little band like yon billow on the strand. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
The sun hadna peep'd frae behint the dark billow, vol. iii. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
And back to where the lordly James his scornful billow rolls. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Oh, the wreck is on the billow; hasten with the means of safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
It hung on this in the trough of a sea; but the next billow swept it over. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The billow was breaking down over him when he leaped erect and flung up his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
But a great billow broke over the wreck and lifeboatmen, and never was he seen again. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
I am the billow of a sail dark shadow of the electrical storm beside me the swollen weather. From Wordnik.com. [Andalusia] Reference
A red flame, as if the sun had glanced on a billow, marked the spot for an instant; but the. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
At last the boat mounted the last billow on which she was to continue her voyage to the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
Tearing off his heavy coat, he rushed forward at the words, and plunged headlong into the billow. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Then a glow appeared at the base of the drill and flame began to billow out from beneath the tube. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
But a terrible billow again came over them, and this time two of their oars were snapped to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Their fears were justified-late in the afternoon, a third building did fall, in a vast billow of dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Rescue Begins] Reference
United States moon, rose out of her sea-fog, and touched mountain, height, and billow, with effulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Unconfirmed reports indicate a state flag, however, did magically appear and start to billow behind her. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2010] Reference
Cloudbursts of strings swell dramatically, then billow into silence, flugelhorns croon, harp notes shiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Couple] Reference
Every billow buried the base of the point in snowy foam and sent the spray flying far up its rugged front. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The decks were repeatedly swept by the boiling ocean, and each billow snatched its victims to a watery grave. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
My grandmother had a barbie doll with a large crocheted skirt billow over the extra roll of toilet paper. From Wordnik.com. [Loose Morals] Reference
Nellie and Nan were out farther, and the billow struck Nellie with such force it actually washed her up on shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
These hang on the wave's ridge; to these the yawning billow shows ground amid the surge, where the sea churns with sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He leant over the vessel's side, and watched it pictured on the ocean, and quivering as the transient billow swept onwards. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
On, like the crest of an angry billow, crushing resistance from its path and leaving a ghastly wreck under and behind it!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Her face was smudged with dirt and her dress would billow with air as she rose and descended in the arc of the swing, giggling. From Wordnik.com. [They] Reference
Now and then, as he was carried helplessly to the crest of a big billow, he tried to peer into the darkness that surrounded him. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference
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