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1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. ii. 82 It struck me with a sudden slight quivering, like that of a man shot through the head, and dead as it were by anticipation, before the death-stroke has time to affect him otherwise than by just rippling the surface of his sensations.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 140 Like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.

1884 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 567 Hardly a single event of consequence has rippled the still surface of the financial world during the past month.

1920 Times 31 Jan. 11/1 It has not even rippled the placid surface of the lotus-lake of our existence.

1963 N. White Horatio Greenough iii. 74 The Cherubs rippled the surface of both the American sense of propriety and the American sense of humor.

2001 Wire June 31/2 In place of syncopated rhythm, he ripples the music's racing pulse through ebbing and flowing waves of beats, crested with the cymbal shots that signal the music's dynamic shifts.