retiring tide
Example Sentences
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Sometimes he moved slowly on, his eyes fixed on the sand which the retiring tide had left a firm and even footing.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
I threw one several times as far as I could, into a deep pool left by the retiring tide; but it invariably returned in a direct line to the spot where I stood.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Once more anchored as near the beach as the retiring tide would allow, Grimes was too much engaged with his prize to notice that "Dummy" took another route to the farm.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
The darkness came from the hills, flowed over the coast, put out the red fires of sunset, and went on to seaward pursuing the retiring tide.
From Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad
The extensive marshes left dry by the retiring tide in estuaries and river mouths.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
