At first he could hear only the water lapping around his body.

The water had covered the first two steps and was already lapping at the third.

I couldn't see what she was aiming for, just black water lapping around her.

I thought a moment as the water lapped at my ankles.

Black water lapped her, depths she could not see into.

The water lapped about their feet, and they went back to the posts.

Inside, he could hear the sound of water gently lapping against the walls.

For a few seconds there was no sound but the water lapping against the side of the boat.

The water had reached its mark and was lapping the grass that he stood on.

The water lapped only a few paces to either side of her.

He felt the water lapping, lifting and lowering about him, and he knew he hadn't finished, but he was too exhausted to do any more.

In the dark night, alone again on the pier with the sluggish water lapping, Colonel Price-Jones wondered what could be so dangerous even Ling Soo feared it?

Even over the wheezing and whoosh of my own breathing, I could hear the water lapping.

The water's music is moderate, no crashing surf along the gentle Sound, just a pedal-point of water lapping, a little more loudly when a boat passes or the tide comes in.

The gasoline-engined leaf blower at full throttle eclipsed sounds of water lapping, or birdsong or frogs croaking.

Ursula became aware of the night around her, the water lapping and running full just near, the trees roaring and soughing in gusts of wind.

I could hear the water lapping.

I heard the riversound, the gentle ripple of water lapping, and the dry twitch of grass where a mouse or bird passed.

Yes, I'm sure I remember I saw water lapping.

No man would meet another's eyes, none spoke and there was only the sound again of the water lapping and that bird giving another solitary cry.