ebb-tide

• “And not all undefended, for out through the Golden Gate moved the Energon, a tiny toy of white, rolling like a straw in the stiff sea on the bar where a strong ebb-tide ran in the teeth of the summer sea-breeze.”

  Goliah

• “The strong ebb-tide, racing down the Straits in the teeth of the wind, caused an unusually heavy and spiteful sea, which dashed aboard continually.”

  DEMETRIOS CONTOS

• “He depended upon the brisk sea breeze and the strong ebb-tide, which together kicked up a nasty sea, to bring me to grief.”

  DEMETRIOS CONTOS

• “During an ebb-tide shift, the water's moving a mile every 12 to 15 minutes," he explained.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Sky's the Limit!

• “News at Eleven: It is fairly safe to say that this kind of English poetry, with its unique diction and ebb-tide, will never be written again by Indian men.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”

  Traveling

• “It is all ebb-tide within, and I fear to question my heart.”

  Letters of Two Brides

• “In the course of the ascent to the top (which is by an easy staircase), the inclination is not very apparent; but, at the summit, it becomes so, and gives one the sensation of being in a ship that has heeled over, through the action of an ebb-tide.”

  Pictures from Italy

• “The ebb-tide sucks at the piles with its cold and slimy lips;”

  The WELL: Wharf Rat

• “Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”

  Holonic sequence

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