dead low water

Example Sentences

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It was dead low water now, and the ship was heeled at an angle, the propeller showing clean.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

A boat would just float there comfortably I supposed, at dead low water.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

She would not be seen again till dead low water.

From A Sea Queen's Sailing by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

It was still pitch dark, but the time of dead low water made it absolutely necessary that operations should commence ere the sun rose.

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

As it was now dead low water, the ship had sewed materially, and was now lying on her bilge partly sustained by the water, and partly by the bottom.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore