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Definition of the day : « ground swell »
- As in wave : noun sea surf, current
- As in silent majority : noun general public
- This was a ground swell, such as never moved in Denboro Bay.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It was like the sound, dull and heavy, of the ground swell that precedes the storm.
- Extract from : « Prisoners of Hope » by Mary Johnston
- Her bosom still was heaving with the ground–swell of her injury.
- Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 1 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- A ground swell cast him again near the vender of prize packages.
- Extract from : « Hoosier Mosaics » by Maurice Thompson
- His soul is still heaving with the ground swell of the storm, though the blasts come more fitfully, and are dying into calm.
- Extract from : « The Life of David » by Alexander Maclaren
- For the schooner was pitching and tossing on a ground swell, that seemed to presage a change of weather.
- Extract from : « The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View » by Laura Lee Hope
- A ground swell, hardly perceptible on the surface of the sea, will kick up no end of a smother on the rock.
- Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- The harbour water was still; and the open––beyond the tickle rocks––was without a ripple or hint of ground swell.
- Extract from : « Billy Topsail & Company » by Norman Duncan
- Loud murmurs began to arise at this, and the orator knew that the ground swell betokened the coming storm.
- Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
- The ship rose and fell lazily on the heaving of the ground swell that rolled in around the Capes.
- Extract from : « Within the Capes » by Howard Pyle