retiring tide

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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 Roby, John

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 Darwin, Charles

Sea-weeds, as every visitor to the coast knows, are torn up in great numbers by the waves, especially during storms, and afterwards left on the shore by the retiring tide.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

Suddenly, a crowd of pipy fragrance involves the room: these �rial forms cease to be visible; and broken sounds, like the retiring tide beneath Dover cliff, die away356 into utter silence.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

If the listener was a new arrival, or a gobe mouche, they would explain that the tigers in the Soonderbunds often get carried out to sea by the retiring tide.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James