And when he closes his eye to stop the world from rippling like the river, they all think he's asleep and they say things.

With a laugh rippling from his hidden lips, The Shadow pressed the trigger of an automatic.

She could feel his muscles rippling beneath the pristine white tuxedo shirt he wore as her hands rested lightly on his shoulders.

But the old peace was disturbed by a word, as a pebble thrown into a quiet pool sends telltale circles rippling its surface far and wide.

I notice the wind rippling the surface of a puddle, but inside the gallery all I can hear is the faint blowing of the air-conditioning.

It is notable for its graceful balance and for the rendering of the figure's draped garments, depicted as if rippling in a strong sea breeze.

Rafael shrugged his shoulders, barely rippling the gray-black material of his cotte, and put his parchments behind the bookcase beside him.

It can cause hardening of the breast tissue, rippling in the skin of the breast, and changes in the shape of the breast.

The cartoon sequence integrated with the live action in the "Rippling Rhythm" sequence was directed by Leon Schlesinger.

Whorls and curlicues were rippling along the edges of the red bands, flat streamers, kilometres long, were shooting out horizontally, like solar prominences.

He got out of bed and went to the window, where he pulled back the curtain and looked out on the pensive sea, rippling quietly in the moonlight.

Long slow rollers from the Atlantic, rippling like muscles beneath the skin, made the only sign of the great invisible strength of the ocean in all the tranquil evening.

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center sent economic shock waves rippling up all of New York's renowned shopping avenues, but display windows did not rattle equally.

Lyra, the weak light from the chart house rippling over her face, said softly, "If Morgon has already passed through Crown City when we get there, what will you do?"

With the auto industry not only on a roll but aggressively pursuing contracts with companies owned by members of minorities, the economic repercussions are rippling into the most poverty-stricken parts of Detroit.

Where the closet's back wall had been she saw the hilltop, saw tall grasses rippling in a soft and intermittent night breeze, saw the livid lines and columns of the temple gleaming in the dark.

A1 Coffee Prices on Rise For the last four months, an uninterrupted run-up in the price of coffee has been rippling through New York and the coffee-drinking world, affecting retailers from Seattle to Brooklyn.

From there, the company, whose other founders included Ms. Valk and the movie-star-to-be Willem Dafoe, moved on to more iconoclastic fare that captured currents rippling through international academia and the art world of downtown New York.

But even the undying rituals of a once-imperial city could not mask the unease rippling through Vienna about the seemingly unstoppable rise of Jorg Haider, the right-wing populist who captured the No. 2 spot in October's national election.

It's something that means the way shadows play on a forest pool at a midwinter dawn, with the breeze rippling the surface, and the tang of ice when the water touches the tongue, and a hint of snow before nightfall in the air.

The labels that Mr. Cygan attaches to his dream party suggest the struggle for identity that is going on in deeply Catholic and rural Poland and in some ways rippling across other formerly Communist countries in Europe.

In the anime series Kiddy Grade, Deucalion is the name given to a massive ship that was intended to take the upper class of the galaxy away to a new space where they believed they could escape the growing revolutionary movements rippling through the galactic government.

Mr. Lang, in his introduction, made precisely that point: his "Sweet Air" was sweet on the surface, with flute, clarinet, piano and plucked strings rippling through patterns, but darker and more convoluted issues of harmony and form were all the time being adroitly skirted.

No Harper, no Teresa, no mother, no family, just a damp cellar of rats, cold in death's kingdom, and all the glory of Colours carried into battle-smoke, of a soldier's pride, of the bayonets rippling in sun and the boots going forward across the sparks towards victory ended here.

The decision is certain to have a ripple effect among private companies as well.

When Ripple called to him, he lost all interest in the game.

And she seemed to know what each ripple did to me.

"Then let me show you what these ripples look like."

He said this would have a ripple effect on the local economy.

For the first time he felt a ripple of fear.

The center of those ripples seemed to be moving toward them.

She knew there could be no running from another of those ripples.

So did they stand until the last of the ripples was gone from her.

And the ripple effect of the center, according to studies, would help support 6,700 jobs in the city.

I'm sure someone will find how to stop the ripples, so you can move about with it.

Say, do you happen to have any Ripple on ice?

At the first ripple of trouble in almost three years, you want out.

The decisions, past and present, the people in government make ripple through the world.

It was a ripple, just like a very young child's.

And that ripple was quite large enough to kill them.

Ripples from the law have spread into the state's schools.

A month later, the ripples are still being felt in the capital and beyond.

"The ripples start to spread as they go out further."

These were more people caught in the ripple effect of her loss.

On another day, such a film might not have caused a ripple.

But even their limited success is beginning to have a ripple effect.

The disappointment about the lost season has had a ripple effect.

Indeed, any new policy may be described as having a ripple effect.

She felt rather than heard the ripple of reaction around the room.

He saw the sun rippling along the top of the water.

His eyes went to her mouth, and heat rippled through him.

I could see thought rippling in him as he worked, like wind on water.

I could feel the heat now, rippling along my skin.

The hair rippled up along his back at the sight.

Muscles rippled up and down his body as he turned.

The air rippled again and then faded as if nothing had happened.

An increase of weight in the wind rippled his hair.

The mountains to the south moved as the Earth rippled.

The air around him rippled for a second, and then he faded from view.

The effect has rippled through Catholic institutions, especially the school system.

But the image still rippled and would not come into sharp focus.

The same thought rippled through everyone's mind: the plan had been blown.

The muscles in his arms rippled without doing anything more than moving them.

Laughter rippled through the group as they caught the play on words.

It thought about that night, and pleasure rippled through its body.

The shots, when they came, rippled the glass under his hands.

As he watched, it rippled out in the early morning wind.

A third time the world rippled, harder still, and as it passed through her.

Their table was near the south wall and the big man rippled through the west side ten meters away.

She took two steps toward him, the gown rippling across her body.

Waves rippled through them as if they were water, not stone.

Words were not enough for the rush of other people's thoughts rippling inside your head.

But the air rippled again, a sound so sweet that he followed it.

She moved out into the sunlight, and through her red hair rippled the wind.