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The great crestless waves rose and fell with pulsing monotony, round, smooth and intolerably silent.

From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward

No flaunting plumes nor brandished lances, but stern purpose in the turn of the crestless helmet, visible victory in the drawing back of the prepared right arm behind the steady point.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John

All day long brilliant butterflies hover on great curved wings over the jungle edge; all day long the cock-quail whistles from wall and hedge, and the crestless jays, sapphire winged, flit across the dunes.

From The Firing Line by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Beneath, the clear green sea rolled in crestless waves towards the shore—they were moving "without the animation of the wind," which had deserted them two days ago, and a hundred miles out at sea.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

To Diomede, who at the fleet had left300 His own, the dauntless Thrasymedes gave His shield and sword two-edged, and on his head Placed, crestless, unadorn'd, his bull-skin casque.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William