1.   Below his window, the new spring water softly lapped against the rocks.

2.   The building was right on the river and the water lapped the walls.

3.   Beside us, dark Thames water laps against the stonework.

4.   I would watch gulls wheel above the Thames while brown water laps the river walls.

5.   Another step and there he was, floating on his back, lips blue, the water lapping against his little jumper, the one with duckies on it.

6.   Azure water laps at the sand.

7.   I would have put her on a barge, the chill waters lapping against the sides.

8.   Nearly half of the milelong causeway linking the island to the mainland is to be replaced by a bridge so that water can lap freely again around the island.

9.   The Caspian is rising, and water now laps the second stories of many buildings, even those that house oil workers.