He rose to his feet with his bronzed face paled under a sudden wave of emotion, which broke out of his surcharged feeling as a whitecap breaks on the crest of a high running swell.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
But the shore was protected by a double line of reefs, so close in that the channel between did not show a whitecap.
"Into the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
The glimpse of the bay that had not yet been lost between the walls of fast-encroaching new buildings, was no longer dull, and beaten level by the rain, but showed cold, and ruffled, and steely-blue; there was even a whitecap or two dancing on the crests out toward Alcatraz.
"Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories"
Kathleen Norris