inflowing tide

Example Sentences

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The inflowing tide broke on the beach with sobbing clamor.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

The only way to meet and overcome the inflowing tide of evil is to roll against it the outflowing river of good.

From Joy & Power by Van Dyke, Henry

She clung to the after rail, and watched the boat, now a tiny dot hard to discern amidst the ripples caused by the inflowing tide.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis

But today the warm inflowing tide of spring seemed to renovate the muddy flats, setting the weeds, that had lain dank and dispirited, a-floating again on the return of the water.

From Queen Lucia by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

On the evening of September 12, the British vessels, loaded with troops, floated with the inflowing tide some distance up the river.

From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Mann, Henry