1.   No wisteria cooing like fat blue pigeons from the eaves, no azure sea, no pretty boats bobbing on gentle waves.

2.   Gentle waves slapped the side of the raft.

3.   But what the island offers in the way of gentle waves and uncrowded beaches it lacks when it comes to groceries and restaurants.

4.   Gentle waves lap piles of rotting marigold garlands, cracked earthen urns and straw-filled skeletons of immersed mud idols.

5.   Gentle waves curl over sugar-white sand.

6.   His lines rise and fall in gentle waves of sound.

7.   Often beaches eroded by storm tides are replenished naturally as gentle waves carry lost sand back to shore.

8.   Overhead, in the mellow late afternoon sun, three or four brown pelicans dived and soared as we bobbed and swam in the gentle waves.

9.   Pushing away the blond hair from his forehead, he acknowledges applause with a gentle wave.

10.   Salty and buoyant, it lifted her up and rocked her effortlessly, a cradle powered by gentle waves.