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n. high tides
Usage examples of "high waters".
Later when Toby's expertise with dolphin communications was more acutely needed, Jim realized that he could have given that job to Amos Schultz since it only involved selecting an appropriate size crate or plastic cocooned pallet, netting it, and wading out to where the young dolphins waited in shoulder high waters to be harnessed.
The waters then would change to blood: a phenomenon due to the particles of red haematite which become detached from the rocks during certain natural conditions such as the season of high waters.
As he had guided their boat through the rakhland's shallows, he now guided his party along the shoreline, across terrain that shifted from pebbled beach to half-submerged boulders to waist-high waters in a matter of minutes.
Lodged in faults and crevices a hundred feet above them were nests of straw and jetsam from old high waters and the riders could hear the mutter of thunder in some nameless distance and they kept watch on the narrow shape of sky overhead for any darkness of impending rain, threading the canyon's close pressed flanks, the dry white rocks of the dead river floor round and smooth as arcane eggs.
The trunk of a dead tree lay trapped here among the boulders, where it had been left behind by the high waters of spring.
Filth swirled and rolled past him as he forged ahead in the chest-high waters, wondering why it was that the elves, who could have pushed back the waters, had chosen to hide nearby, and do their cloaking from their hideaway .
Filth swirled and rolled past him as he forged ahead in the chest-high waters, wondering why it was that the elves, who could have pushed back the waters, had cho.
The river plain beyond held a scene just as dismaying to look upon: as if high waters had overtaken the fields and ditches, washing in a flood tide of corpses and depositing them in eddies or along invisible streams where strong currents had once flowed.