rippling

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emitting a murmuring sound felt to resemble a laugh

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a small wave on the surface of a liquid

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26, you can think of me, and how I used to lie awake, listening to the stream rippling beneath the window, with its gentle harpsichord tinkle, and little by little letting slip the multifarious world.

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When I approached carelessly and alarmed them, they made a sudden splash and rippling with their tails, as if one had struck the water with a brushy bough, and instantly took refuge in the depths.

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In the second place, the ebb was now making--a strong rippling current running westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.

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The trees that fringed the shore on either hand murmured their sweet sylvan music in the night air; the moonlight trembled softly on the rippling water.

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Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set --all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset.

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