From this high standpoint, no stars could be seen, except as mere ripples, brief indentations that he could barely make out, if he tried.

Blade sailed over a hedge four feet high as if it had been a mere ripple in the ground, nearly tumbled headlong, kept on going.

The merest ripple of disquiet shivered along the ranks of the brothers, and again subsided.

It was a mere ripple of effort, but the creature was thrown sideways into a tree.

But these were mere ripples on a generally untroubled sea.

An ocean lay behind us, far down, with raging bil-lows turned to mere ripples by distance.

Any one of a hundred trenches in the floor of the Pacific could swallow her whole, without raising the merest ripple on the surface.

Alex had known, for instance, that even the greatest mountains and canyons were mere ripples and pores on the planet's huge bulk.

That is the merest ripple through an intelligence born of a brain made flawless.

Compared with this revolution the Renaissance is a mere ripple on the surface of literature.