Of a truth these white plashes were but marguerites.
"The Chevalier d'Auriac"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
And it was just a part, likewise, that while plates were changed and dishes presented and periods in the banquet marked; while appearances insisted and phenomena multiplied and words reached her from here and there like plashes of a slow, thick tide; while Mrs. Lowder grew somehow more stout and more instituted and Susie, at her distance and in comparison, more thinly improvised and more different-different, that is, from every one and everything: it was just a part that while this process went forward our young lady alighted, came back, taking up her destiny again as if she had been able by a wave or two of her wings to place herself briefly in sight of an alternative to it.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
The waterjet still plashes silver sweet, The ancient aspen rustles as of yore.
"Poems of Paul Verlaine"
Paul Verlaine