What is "billows"

Usage examples of "billows".

So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud.

Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.

Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.

In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.

Ford carefully explained to her the difference between slipping over the little waves of the landlocked bay, and plunging into the gigantic billows of the stormy Atlantic.

Her cloak still billows, her hair still whips, and I want more than anything to draw her to me, to touch and tidy her.

The older Sulu continued picking his slow and careful way through the shifting billows of blue light, until he stood inside the curving gyroscopic arms of the alien time transporter.

Thick and evil was that mist, eye could not pierce its billows, nor could any mind send exploring thought through it.

Save that here light was a part of it and the billows shone with a greenish radiance which made me think of long-buried corruption.

He gently nudged the plane lower, dropping behind the rows of waves, attempting to land on the downward side of one, using its slope to slacken the impact The propellers were throwing up huge billows of spray behind the engine nacelles, and the fog was beginning to enshroud the cockpit windshield when the first impact came.

Rolling billows of dust filled the air, obscuring everything like a dense fog, but no more of the structure collapsed.