inflowing tide
Example Sentences
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At the broads of Clashmore, the highest water-mark to which the inflowing tide comes, one can easily imagine themselves upon an inland lake.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
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 Louis Tracy
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
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
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 E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
