| 1. | Over the Maybury arch a train, a billowing tumult of white, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south--clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | We looked off from the brow of the mountain over fifteen miles of billowing green, to where, far across a far stretch of pale blue lay a dim purple line that we knew was Staten Island. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn round, and I heard them say Is she not beautiful How good she smells What billowing hair Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |