ebb-tide

• With an ebb-tide, the water of the lagoon runs past the mulberry gardens of this hamlet like a river. —  New Italian sketches
• The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation, and delaying our assailants. —  Treasure Island
• The ebb-tide leaves dry. —  The Children's Garland from the Best Poets
• At half-past 5 A.M., the ebb-tide making, we left Macao with vegetables for the ship. —  Great Pirate Stories
• And see the hogs from ebb-tide mark turn scampering back to shore. —  The Seven Seas

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