Sitting opposite, he took up the oars and pulled out over the sheet of sparkling blue water, through which at first the bottom of white sand glimmered wavily but afterwards deepened to translucent, dim depths of greenness.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
With that chill and dread upon me, and the sheer rock all around, and the faint light heaving wavily on the silence of this gulf, I must have lost my wits and gone to the bottom, if there were any.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
What does our modern artist do but flare it to right and left, lift it wavily over her forehead, revel in the oriental superabundance, and really seem to swear we shall admire it, against our traditions of the vegetable, as a poetical splendour.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith