Close off the starboard bow a sheet of ice plummeted into the sea, rocking the Bane even more severely than the rolling seas were already rocking her.

The sea rocked like an earthquake, vomiting against the sandy shore, pounding in a kettledrum commotion.

This sea rocked him, cradled him, spoke to him in the soft susurrus peculiar to oceans.

On one side the sea rocked gently with a golden greasy swell.

The sea rocked her and washed her thoughts clean.

Rough seas in winter can rock the boat "enough so that you can see the propellers come out of the water, but not enough to spill a glass of water," Mr. Lundberg said.

The sea rocked with unhurried rhythms and the occasional white cap flashed on the waves.

Though the sea still rocked with an oily swell, they had totally lost any feeling of forward momentum.

The sea rocked its wrinkled silver far below now.

The sea rocked the boat, as if egging them on.