springtides

The mean tidal range also varies, but is in the vicinity of .34 m, the level found in Cuba, where springtides reach up to .90 m.

Greater Antilles mangroves 2008

At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was greater; on one part, Captain Fitz Roy found beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark: the inhabitants had formerly dived at lower-water springtides for these shells.

Chapter XIV 1909

Well for us that the horrible noises of that day are silent now; well for the world that that place of bloodshed and horror has grown green again; better for us and for the world if those cries had never been heard, and that quiet place had never received a stain that centuries of green succeeding springtides can never wash away.

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

Well for us that the horrible noises of that day are silent now; well for the world that that place of bloodshed and horror has grown green again; better for us and for the world if those cries had never been heard, and that quiet place had never received a stain that centuries of green succeeding springtides can never wash away.

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 5 Filson Young 1907

Well for us that the horrible noises of that day are silent now; well for the world that that place of bloodshed and horror has grown green again; better for us and for the world if those cries had never been heard, and that quiet place had never received a stain that centuries of green succeeding springtides can never wash away.

Christopher Columbus Young, Filson 1906

There is nothing in which we fancy ourselves so original as in our terms of endearment, nothing in which we are so like all the world; for, alas! there is no euphuism of affection which lovers have not prattled together in springtides long before the

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

They are dreaming of their ancient springtides, when they edited magazines or played "Hamlet."

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

'I have not now, of a long time, found such high springtides as formerly.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Writing from Aberdeen to Lady Boyd, he says: 'I have not now, of a long time, found such high springtides as formerly.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

However, since the catastrophe two successive springtides had softened the ground, and in a corner of the trapezium, behind an enormous stone that was becoming tinted with the green of moss, and beneath which were haunts of woodlice, millepeds, and other insects, a little patch of grass had grown in the shadow.

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1843