ebb tide

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As we watched his hand stray down the rank, how we would pray that it might alight upon the ones we love, on the "New Arabian Nights" "The Ebb-tide," "The Wrecker," "Kidnapped," or "Treasure Island."

From Through the Magic Door by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Ebb-tide uncovers no fair stretch of sand, and at flood the breakers are thwarted on a bulwark of piled stone, which supports the railway, or protects a promenade.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

Second Awakening 230-245 Ebb-tide of spiritual life, 230.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey