springtide
Example Sentences
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A retractable roof opens up to the springtide; in summer and winter, it unfurls into a glass-paneled cathedral ceiling that alternately cocoons air-conditioned coolness or furnace-rendered warmth.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2017
This autumn season is something more akin to late springtide in the brilliant career of Edna O’Brien, described by her American peer Philip Roth as the greatest living woman writing in English.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2015
First immersion and I�m away from the North Pacific and all of its frigid reverences, springtide gales, redwoods, white sharks and hypothermia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The capping-day was the end of our springtide, and for some of us the summer was to be brief.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
At springtide there was love and marriage, not always voluntarily, but in deference to the right of lords and princes to command their dependants to marry.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann