downfalling

I was tossed through the air like a chip and buried ignominiously under the downfalling breaker.

Excerpt From Cruise of the Snark: Surfing in Hawaii 2010

The glowing greenish gauze was in a ferment, bubbling, uprearing, downfalling, and tentatively thrusting huge bodiless hands into the upper ether.

CHAPTER 18 2010

And suddenly, out there where a big smoker lifts skyward, rising like a sea-god from out of the welter of spume and churning white, on the giddy, toppling, overhanging and downfalling, precarious crest appears the dark head of a man.

Excerpt From Cruise of the Snark: Surfing in Hawaii 2010

And while it passes, Louis, we are aware of downfalling, we forebode decay.

The Waves 2003

Where it met the surface, a disturbance arose, and a familiar sight climbed back up the beam: the splashing, outward-spraying point of contact between the downfalling jet and a new one spraying upward at the same angle from the same point.

Alliance Oltion, Jerry 1990

Palmists or clairvoyants would prophesy a future for her, simply through looking in her eyes; but whether notoriety is to be won by downfalling or uprising were better left unstated.

When the Birds Begin to Sing Harold Piffard

And suddenly, out there where a big smoker lifts skyward, rising like a sea-god from out of the welter of spume and churning white, on the giddy, toppling, overhanging and downfalling, precarious crest appears the dark head of a man.

Chapter 6 1913

I was tossed through the air like a chip and buried ignominiously under the downfalling breaker.

Chapter 6 1913

I was tossed through the air like a chip and buried ignominiously under the downfalling breaker.

Chapter 6 1911

And suddenly, out there where a big smoker lifts skyward, rising like a sea-god from out of the welter of spume and churning white, on the giddy, toppling, overhanging and downfalling, precarious crest appears the dark head of a man.

Chapter 6 1911