Slight noticeable effect

Usage examples of ripple.

Through the ripples of the water Addle could see the sun quivering like the yolk of an egg.

Now, as he stood before her, naked torso gleaming in the candlelight, muscles rippling, eyes afire with their ebony fury, she was bleakly sorry.

Now, with the swift coming of the jungle dawn, the plain had been transformed into a rippling sea of emerald, of malachite, alexandrite, and amazon-stone green, richly flecked with topaz and amethyst.

But if the algid psynergy rippling over his skin was to be trusted, this was not a place of old voors.

Lady, but the rippling tentacles of a great ammonite filled her mind instead.

Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.

A ripple ran through the arachnid host gathered at the far edge of the plains, an anticipatory shuffling.

Eyes asquint against the rush of wind and her upper lip lifted, a hand held near her ear to keep her rippling silk head scarf from flying away.

Utter silence followed this pronouncement, such that even far across the cathedral square, the rustle of parchment could be heard as the papal chaplain rolled up his scroll, turning away to converse quietly with two waiting prelates as a belated murmur of conversation rippled through the crowd.

The snow was two feet eight inches deep, and once we went down in a drift the surface of which was rippled like sea sand, Birdie up to her back, and I up to my shoulders!

She did her best to quell the anxiety rippling through her as she took her seat beside Bitsy, but it was hard.

Nemes blinks as the temporal shock waves ripple over and through her and then surveys the frozen surroundings with the full spectrum of her vision.

But one evening, not long after the boysenberry ripple offensive, he became curious about his pockets.

With all its sweet and mystical significance, surely the prevailing feeling in the hearts of bride and bridegroom is, or should be, that of happiness,--happiness bubbling and dancing, all sunny ripples from heart to heart.

I looked seaward where he pointed, and saw the great smoking combers that made the breakers I had been riding look like ripples.