Shore sights on a windy day

Usage examples of whitecaps.

Empire State Building, caused a Dodgers game to grind to a halt as they passed over Ebbets Field, and watched whitecaps breaking on the Jersey shore.

Hairy Harry while the Tailorcraft wiggled through the last hundred miles to Jameson, in between showing his passenger such curiosities as a finback whale coming up to spout between dives, over seventy feet of smoothly shaped gray-blue creature calmly pursuing a majestic existence framed by whitecaps on green waves.

Further out to sea, Ismene could see dancing whitecaps and the spouting of a pod of whales headed north for the summer.

In the front bedroom I paused to look out the window, over the frozen drifts to the gun-green sea tossing whitecaps beyond the protecting dunes of Nauset strand.

White seagulls soared against the grey sky, dived, and skimmed the whitecaps of the choppy Narrows.

She climbed and slalomed the mountainous whitecaps on her journey outbound from Clapboard Island.

Mariana came on deck the sky was gray and overcast, the sea choppy with a few whitecaps.

Her screen blossoms into panoramic visions of this Earth: penguins porpoising through Antarctic whitecaps, a whole meadow of buttercups opening to the morning sunlight on some alpine meadow, streams of light-touched motes hovering throughout the world of the tropics, mists and steam, glaciers and insects, the eyes of an ocelot, the clashing tusks of love-smitten musk oxen.

Brownish-green sea flecked with whitecaps, stiff wind catching at the earflaps of her hat.

Braving the winds and spray, Captain Arne Korvold stood on the open bridge of the Norwegian Rindal Lines passenger-cargo liner Narvik and aimed his binoculars at a huge ship wallowing dead in the whitecaps.

There, close to the endless whitecaps of the Celtic Sea, nearly a dozen dishes pick up signals from commercial satellites such as Inmarsat and INTELSAT.

Gray-green with glacial flour, the Madwoman River poured noisily into a bay where whitecaps danced on water the hue of steel.

With the ruby landing vector beacon steady in the Hyper-screens, he ignored his urge to flare and kept coming down with the gravs at IDLE until her gravity gradient kissed the whitecaps and launched great cascades of spray soaring past the side Hyperscreens.

The great ice field lay bone-white to my right, and in the opposite direction a slate-gray sea tossed whitecaps like serpents in a bucket of milk.

Now in a full suit of light sails to replace the thick heavyweather canvas, she seemed to lean forward and down across the endless panorama of glittering whitecaps, as if she was glad to be throwing off the bleak monotony of blockade duty and eager to reach beyond the sea's edge, and beyond that.