But by the end of the first quarter of the present century, the great poetical billow, which was not indeed caused by, but received an impulse from, the great political billow, the French Revolution (for they were cognate or co-radical movements), had quite spent itself, and English poetry was at a comparatively low ebb. The Poetical Revolution had done its work. A poetical interregnum of a few years' duration followed, in which there appeared to be a great reduction of the spiritual life of which poetry is the outgrowth.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
And thereat had begun his servitude to O'Hara and the insatiable columns of the Billow. Week after week he held down an office chair, stood off creditors, wrangled with printers, and turned out twenty-five thousand words of all sorts weekly. Nor did his labours lighten. The Billow was ambitious. It went in for illustration. The processes were expensive. It never had any money to pay Kit Bellew, and by the same token it was unable to pay for any additions to the office staff.英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
Then, like the billow, etc. The repetition of the same rhyme here gives well the cumulative effect of the rising billow.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
As his call died away on the sullen wind, the mysterious "Man of the Sea" rose in his wrath out of the billows, and said,--英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"An island lies, where loud the billows roar, Pharos they call it, on the Egyptian shore."英文原著 · 《ALEXANDER》
But this never came to pass, for, as a feather, the billows softly bore them up and then down so gently; they felt it pass under them, with all its boiling surf and thunderous roar. And so on continually, but the sea getting heavier and heavier. One after another rushed the waves, more and more gigantic, like a long chain of mountains, with yawning valleys. And the madness of all this movement, under the ever- darkening sky, accelerated the height of the intolerable clamour.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》