tide

• Below her, at the very foot of the slope, was the church on its little creek and she made her way slowly, by narrow, steep paths, down the hill to where, as the tide was almost out, a red and white cabin cruiser was marooned on the shore. —  Mingled With Venom-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 54
• Aleck clapped his hands exultingly, and ran forward to slip the rope across, as the tide was already pretty high, and still rising. —  The Story of the White-Rock Cove
• And now, lads, away with you on deck, and man the capstan, for the tide is about full The capstan was manned, and the hawsers were hove taut. —  The World of Ice
• They put down the helm, thinking to slide off; but she only swung broadside to the waves, and as the tide was at ebb, she was soon hard and fast, with the sea making a clean breach over her Captain Coffin, with the four other men, got into the rigging with a flag of some kind, which they fastened at half mast, as a signal of distress. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
• We had a tin cup and a small breaker; but the men, supposing that they would not be long absent from the schooner, had neglected to fill it with water, while that in the stream, as the tide was then rising, was brackish. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela

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