Examples from literature

• A third time the beach combers crashed down like a falling mountain. 
• As the wave speeds on, and the bottom strikes the ground, the top breaks into a huge comber. 
• Great combers occasionally swept the decks from bow to stern. 
• The next beach comber could not budge her. 
• The sea lay sparkling in the sunlight, while almost at their feet great white-crested combers were rolling in and breaking against the sandy bluff.