Quotes About Lapping

The war had been a tide that had receded and now here it was lapping around her ankles again.

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

Soothe! soothe! soothe! Close on its wave soothes the wave behind, And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close, But my love soothes not me, not me. -from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Brownsville was another example of the blurred border, of Mexico brimming against the US and lapping over it, leaving a margin of Mexico on the north bank of the green river.

Numberless waves, lapping and momentarily reflecting the sun — all from the same sea,' says the master Halki.