Lapping

Tom and Mary awoke to find water lapping at the door of their tent.

The dog was lapping water.

The palace of the Merman King lies in the very deepest part; its walls are of coral and the long pointed windows of the clearest amber, but the roof is made of mussel shells which open and shut with the lapping of the water.

She sat listening to the water lapping rhythmically against the moored rowing boats.

The voice spoke to him, and its softness was the purl of a wave lapping at the shore.

Venetians were woken up at dawn Friday to the wailing of flood sirens and the lapping of water as the already-deluged Italian city was struck by a new tidal surge, further damaging ancient monuments, palaces and churches and striking fear into residents.

Benedito stopped to take a drink from a stream, his billy goat lapping up the water beside him.

Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.

the iron roller is previously wound round with from 20 to 30 thicknesses of a strong twilled woollen cloth , which is called by the machine printer the lapping , which protects both the calico and the copper roller