He ducked too late to miss the sliced foam off a wave top that poured itself down his back.
The entire wave top jumped and shimmered as if a steel rain were pelting it.
I literally saw moonlight through his riddled body as it tumbled down to the wave tops.
The sun was just a red glow, half hidden by strips of cloud, tipping the wave tops with fire.
The sky to the east was orange, slanting color across the wave tops.
The vessel is slamming the wave tops and has only just appeared on my scans.
A wind blew up out of nowhere, battering the wave tops into froth.
He had to let the periscope go all the way up to see over the wave tops.
It also made for very rough flying as his fighter bounced through the roiled air at the wave tops.
A side roll of the plane revealed rows of long white wave tops not so far below.