Literary notes about Undulating (AI summary)
The word “undulating” is employed to evoke a sense of gentle, wave-like motion that brings both natural landscapes and dynamic forms to life. Writers use it to describe rolling, curving terrains—from the softly rising hills and meadows [1, 2, 3] to vast expanses where the land itself seems to breathe [4, 5, 6]—imbuing scenes with an almost musical rhythm. Beyond geography, the term also captures graceful motion in human and elemental forms, as seen in the fluid contours of a figure’s body [7, 8] or the shimmering, rhythmic pulse of the sea and even fire [9, 10, 11]. This varied usage enriches descriptive language, blending visual aesthetics with a cadenced, almost hypnotic quality [12, 13].
- The land immediately beneath them was of a gently undulating character, something like the Downs of South-Eastern England.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith - On the right was a tract of land, partly meadow and partly moor, reaching, at its remote verge, to a wide undulating upland.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - The undulating region between Callander and Doune, on the north side of the Teith.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott - [Pg 143] CHAPTER VIII THE RIVERS OF FRANCE Broadly speaking, one half of France is mountainous, and the other flat or undulating.
— from France by Gordon Home - The gently undulating New England upland stretches off to the north and east for miles.
— from The Flow of Time in the Connecticut Valley: Geological Imprints by Howard A. (Howard Augustus) Meyerhoff - Her undulating hair had been reduced by Mathilde, with a pair of shears, to a suitable shortness.
— from The Bright Face of Danger
Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens - And this expression is due to the curved lines on which the action of the figure is hung, and the soft undulating forms of its modelling.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed - You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy - The sea was undulating, gleaming and now and then flaring crimson. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The undulating fire, accompanied with eight wings , four on each side.
— from A System of Pyrotechny
Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush - , just as Captain Nemo had predicted, we cruised beneath the undulating surface of the Ice Bank.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - “Don’t anybody move”—the deep reedy voice reverberated amongst the standing figures; the firm compact undulating figure came across the room to Alma.
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson - [Pg 23] expanses of undulating and treeless land that is not devoid of beauty.
— from The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath