summertide

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Among its many shortcomings, the piña colada, like all the silliest summertide mixed drinks, fails to gratify an honest thirst.

From Slate • May 22, 2015

The forest was dark, not a leaf was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

At high summertide, the Gothic camp was pitched before Rome, and the siege anticipated for so many months had at length begun.

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

To him they were but the ephemera of the long summertide of jurisprudence.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

Then the heart of Tellus, the smith, was proud, and sang for the joy of life, And there in the bronzing summertide he thanked the gods for his wife.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)