swash

By this time the storm had about reached us; the gusts of wind were flaring the torches and making the shadows swash about, the first heavy drops of rain were falling, the world abroad was black as pitch, the lightning began to wink fitfully.

He felt the swash of the fragrant water upon his body.

"It must be fun to swash the water round and dig out the soap.

The bow plunged down, just missing me and sending a swash of water clear over my head.

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.

Another and another follows with a swash and a suck and a savage bubbling of relieved pressures.

He saw the trolleys hurrying west, in the hot, hazy morning, full of women in light summer dresses, and white-faced straw- hatted men fresh from Boston desks; the stack of bicycles outside the post-office; the come-and-go of busy officials, greeting one another; the slow flick and swash of bunting in the heavy air; and the important man with a hose sluicing the brick sidewalk.

For three hours and a half did they tug anxiously and severely at the oar, swashed occasionally by the surging waves of the open sea, while the ship inexorably kept on her course, and seemed determined to leave them behind.

The starboard rail buried under the sea as the schooner heeled to the blow, and, as she righted with a violent lurch, the water swashed across the deck to the knees of the sailors about the boat and spouted out of the port scuppers.

The kinematics of the swash plate machine piston motion relative to the cylindrical bore was analyzed considering different types of relative motion.

Mole Crabs are the dominant members of the sandy-beach food web in the swash zone at Drakes Beach, and we have often observed Sanderling (Calidris alba), Willet (Tringa semipalmata), and Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) foraging on Mole Crabs along this stretch of shoreline (Stallcup and Evens 2014, pers.