inflowing tide

Example Sentences

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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 Booth-Tucker, Commissioner

Then, as they presently rounded the headland, a hollow and tuneful echo seemed wafted back to them as the waves plashed against the semi-circle of cliff with the inflowing tide.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

He stood staggering to recover his balance for a moment, and as he did so he became aware that the struggle and the inflowing tide had carried them close upon the weedy rocks again.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Diver, Maud

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)