Crossword-Solution: WAVELIKE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Through his awakening senses stole the murmurs of the living cradle which rocked him with the wavelike movements of respiration, the soft susurrus of the air that entered with every breath, the double beat of the heart which throbbed close to his ear.

The wind of the morning, that blew to her across the wavelike dunes and the white plains, seemed impregnated with ice.

According as feeling is stronger and firmer, as in the expression of courage, determination, firm resolve, resistance, intense devotion, the voice is kept sustained, with pauses rather abrupt and decisive; if the feeling, though of high sentiment, is tranquil, without aggressiveness, the voice has more of the wavelike rise and fall, and at the pausing places the tone is gradually diminished, rather than abruptly broken off.

Last evening in Trieste, now in Ancona, in a city of the papal states,--that was almost like enchantment! Italy in all its picturesque splendor lay once more before me; spring had ripened all the fruit trees so that they had burst forth into blossom; every blade of grass in the field was filled with sunshine, the elm trees stood like caryatides enwreathed with vines, which shot forth green leaves, and above the luxuriance of foliage rose the wavelike blue mountains with their snow covering.

None of them had been solidly founded enough to withstand the wavelike rush of Rodney Aldrich into her life.