You want to watch the front of the shock wave rush across the water, and the perfect circle of white that expands behind, overtaking it.
Stevenson is sitting as a boy on the stairs of his uncle's manse in Colinton, just outside Edinburgh, as his aunt comes hurrying down in her full skirts: "I heard a quick rustling behind; next moment I was enveloped in darkness; and the moment after, as the reef might see the wave rushing on past it towards the beach, I saw my aunt below rushing downwards".
Because it's not seen in any other snapshots, researchers have taken to calling it the "magic island," but a letter published this week in Nature Geoscience gives a much simpler explanation: It was a wave rushing across the lake or bubbles rising to its surface.
A cool wave rushed over me and I felt reborn.
Johnstown itself was next as the tidal wave rushed on relentlessly drowning and destroying bridges, oil tankers, and factories.
One waves, rushes over, beaming, and thrusts a bunch of newly picked pea pods into my hands.
They truly fly in barefoot wonder like the revolutionary dancers from last century's Depression who tossed away slippers, raising their arms in a wilderness of waving rushes, rustling to the dark beat of music which captures their time and our time.
We ran into the surf, letting the cold waves rush over us.
A long sweep of cleanly sculpted mountains curved away from the farm on either side, like two huge waves rushing together, a maelstrom stilled just moments before collision.
