inflowing tide
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The inflowing tide had lifted their boat and borne it further up on the sands.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by John R. (John Roy) Musick
A pause in the flow of his talk left a space of silence into which the encompassing peace and radiance stole like an inflowing tide.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
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 Henry Mann
The morning breeze, rising out of the west, approached in a rippling lines like the crest of an inflowing tide.
From Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
Having obtained our territory we should proceed to mark it out, and to direct into the most advantageous channels, the inflowing tide of immigration.
From Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Commissioner Booth-Tucker
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