Muriel Spark rose from the waves as is well known.
On Easter Sunday, the actor Hugh Jackman rose from the waves to save his son.
He shouted as she swam on past the breakers, where she rose from the waves and, so the tale goes, laid a curse on my family.
When Chloe turns to look, there are three monster sharks with enormous T. Rex legs, rising from the waves and marching across the bay.
He read one poem about watching his father working late while "listening to the surf and the creak of coconut boughs," and another about a young woman with a wet T-shirt rising from the waves.
About 14 miles south of Gold Beach you enter Samuel H. Boardman Scenic Corridor — a nine-mile roadside corridor with turnouts overlooking natural stone arches rising from the waves, trailheads accessing the Oregon Coast Trail, and paths winding down to hidden beaches and tide pools.
Or again, when Emilio runs into Angiolina at the seafront, we fully partake in his sense of her apotheosis into a kind of pagan goddess risen from the waves, "all lit up by the mid-day sun which was playing in her fair curls", even as we maintain our parallel sense of her very ordinary humanity.
They gathered before a 22-foot memorial sculpture entitled "The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves," overlooking the gleaming white headstones and manicured green lawn of the cemetery.
In the distance, six oil rigs rose from the waves, and nearby floated a few barges, supply boats, a fleet of BP Vessels of Opportunity doing boom training, and one lone shrimp trawler, nets extended at its side like outstretched arms.
We then walked to the cemetery's main memorial, which features a 22-foot bronze statue, aptly titled "The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves". That title describes what Germans, Italians, English and French probably felt from 1942 to 1945 as they witnessed the flower of American youth cross the Atlantic in enormous numbers and land on the shores of North Africa and Europe.
