The comte accepted the challenge, but as he reached for his glass again, it trembled before he touched it, and the surface of the red wine was agitated into little circular ripples which lapped against the crystal bowl.

Then, as if a tiny pebble had fallen into the bowl, little circular ripples rolled out from the exact center.

Drops fell from the mossy ceiling, making circular ripples that spread and overlapped, throwing blurry reflections back against the torchlit walls.

--dove again and disappeared, a widening circular ripple left in its wake.

Madeleine supposed there would be secondary waves, great circular ripples washing back and forth around Triton like waves in a bathtub, as the new ocean, seething, sought equilibrium.

Towers started down, counting seventeen places in the sea marked by circular ripples.

The Bay had its usual morning calm, the glassy surface punctuated by the circular ripples of bluefish chasing after insects.

They were gone in an instant, leaving behind a diffracting pattern of circular ripples, spreading and subsiding until at last all was still once more.

This is the cause of the circular ripples around the impurity.

Another one of them featured the animals closer together, leaving circular ripples on the lake surface.