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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].
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. The undulating region between Callander and Doune, on the north side of the Teith.
    — from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
  4. [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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun.
    — from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
  9. The sea was undulating, gleaming and now and then flaring crimson. . . .
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  10. 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
  11. , 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
  12. “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
  13. [Pg 23] expanses of undulating and treeless land that is not devoid of beauty.
    — from The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath

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