Sea's ebb and flow

Usage examples of tide.

I wondered if any of the others could see the darker tides running behind the placid affability he presented to them.

Beany crep out esy and hunted round til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window.

That the tide of agrarianism was gradually flowing westward as the frontier advanced is apparent from the election returns in the States bordering on the upper Mississippi.

Can change with its false times and tides, Like hope and terror,-- Alas for Love!

I knew that with the tide the big evil-looking albacore sharks hunted inshore upon the flood.

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

When these tides reach our own century and become the transforming rage of nations, we may feel the need to consult the source books, the very prose of apocalyptic struggle.

Opposite the islet, the beach consisted first of sand, covered with black stones, which were now appearing little by little above the retreating tide.

At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

The tall figure of Aragon stood at the helm, letting the boat drift on the tide.

Philadelphia, at tide jet-copters landing, the runnels of autocars and ramps of footers coming and going, into and out of every high-rise building in sight.

Having observed Siett and Balant in high tide position, I was not surprised that Nikum lay nearly drowned.

The tide was high, and the ragged rocks of the Banc des Violets in the south and the Corbiore in the west were all but hidden.

From anywhere off Beachy Head, the nearest harbour was Pevensey, not Bulverhythe, and to catch the tide they altered course towards it.

Verteidigung der Stadt die Waffen ergreifen und entging bei einem Ausfall nur mit genauer Noth dem Tode.