land-swell

There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Here a gentle land-swell, river, lake, forest, or water-soaked moor serves as boundary.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.

Chapter IV 1885

There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.

Personal Memoirs of U S Grant 01 Grant, Ulysses S 1885

There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.

Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete 1853

There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.

The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 1. 1853

The dancing white caps of the morning had died away in a quiet, sullen sea, which only a land-swell moved.

Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"About half an hour after we left the rock, the gathering clouds threatened an approaching tempest; and what is termed a land-swell, dashed about our little bark, and terrified me most sadly.

Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux