But then the wave retreated again,leaving him in the shallow water on the shore.

The first wave retreated, minds dizzy from the Evil Eye.

The waves retreated and I felt myself falling.

She listened as a wave knocked them against each other like chattering teeth, and then retreated.

Her mind was clearer now, for the sweeping waves of Nimitz's pain had retreated.

It vanished beneath the next wave, and was again bared as the wave retreated.

When the wave retreated, Ralph raised his own horror-filled shriek to the indifferent blue sky.

"A great tidal wave has carried us up here and retreated."

As the waves retreated, the water warmed again.

The waves hurled themselves at the shore and retreated in a rattle of pebbles.