10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SURFLIKE»
Discover the use of
surflike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
surflike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Submarine Insignia and Submarine Services of the World
The design consistsofthe state arms,the Pillar of Asoka, with an inward facing
dolphinoneither side,allresting on a surflike base. The badge is madein
goldplated metal, measures71mm × 24mmandhas a lug and pin fastening on the
reverse.
2
The Midshipman; Or, Twelve Years at Sea
... (of which remember httle but the verandas round it, and the compound or lawn
beiore it, and the briiht glancin fire-flies that shot through the green shrubs _at mg
t) —with siisvisit, I say, and an imperfect recollection of the surflike boar or bore, ...
Frederick Woods MANT, 1854
3
Weekly Bulletin of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Here we were at the edge of the live lava field of 1919, and 300 yards in front of
us was the great northern cone with its fountains spurting 400 feet into the air and
making the usual surflike rumble. The northerly winds kept the fume entirely ...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 1919
The perfume of new-mown hay and the breath of roses came mingled with the
distant music of bells and the twittering song of birds and a low surflike sound of
the wind in summer woods. There were all sounds of pastoral scenes, of a
tranquil ...
George William Curtis, 1894
“hen the tub begins to oscillate, the water is thrown into a. surflike motion and is
forced through the clothes from above and below 72 times a. minute. This action
is forceful enough to remove all dirt, yet gentle enough not to injure your daintiest
...
6
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Below, We could hear it beat surflike upon the crags. We hurried down to the hot-
spring flat, and just over the curve of its southern descent made our bivouac.
Even here the wind howled merciless and cold. \Ve turned to and built of lava
blocks ...
7
Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
Below, we could hear it beat surflike upon the crags. We hurried down to the hot-
spring flat, and just over the curve of its southern descent made our bivouac.
Even here the wind howled merciless and cold. \Ve turned to and built of lava
blocks ...
... of tarpon leaped, the fins of hundreds of great sharks cut lanes through them,
uncountable cavalli, Spanish mackerel, bluefish, ladyfish, and other predatory
small fry, devouring and being devoured, beat the water into surflike waves; while
, ...
Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, 1907
9
Hardware Dealers' Magazine
Oscillating Electric Washer On account of a specially designed oscillating tub
with a raised screen-end incorporated in the electrically-driven washer, recently
placed upon the market by the Surf Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis, it is said that a
surflike ...
... the foreground sloping down to buttresses in shadowy valleys, and the surflike
ridges in the background stretching away in vanishing panoramas of earth-waves
—earth-waves too many and too softened by distance for the camera to catch.
