After that only an occasional watery ripple.

The oily, scummy water lay still in front of them, an occasional ripple breaking languidly on the pebbles.

Roy looked out the small, thick glass porthole at the unbelievable blue sea with its occasional frothed ripples of waves.

There was the occasional faint ripple on the water, and that wasn't comforting, since there wasn't apparently anything to stir the surface.

Except for an occasional ripple of street jazz or burst of drunken laughter, all was quiet.

Sparkling snow lifted on an occasional ripple of wind, but nothing else moved.

Fish made occasional ripples on the glass-smooth surface.

Other than an occasional ripple and the artificial timing pulses, there was nothing.

Suddenly the room full of girls becomes quiet, except for occasional ripples of suppressed laughter.

Yet the fiction that Cusk creates from the unhappy Agnes lacks much surprise and contains only occasional ripples of humor or irony.