ripplingly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ripplingly (comparative more ripplingly, superlative most ripplingly)
- With a rippling motion.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows […]