tide-mark

The tide-mark left in the nave had after all reached no higher than the top of the second step of Saint Winifred's altar.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

And the brown at the hem had been mottled and faded, leaving a tide-mark of dark colour round the pallor ...

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

The carts are used to carry it up beyond tide-mark.

The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

I then scooped out a hollow in the sand, a little above the tide-mark, and filling it with water, pushed him into it, thus securing him for the present.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Christian's intelligence would intentionally have given a false account of his projects to the mutineers he left behind, knowing that even if all who were set adrift in the boat had perished, the story of the mutiny would be learned by the first ship that visited Tahiti; a worm-eaten spar lying on the tide-mark, at an island situated directly down-wind from the

Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards

The flowing waters of the Forth had effectually wiped out his horse's tracks along the shore, and during the night a rising wind had effaced the footsteps of his captor in the dry loose sand between tide-mark and links.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

I took the dark tide-mark for my guide, and began searching landward.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

They emerged from it into the only street of Slepe Rock, and, keeping in the shadow of the wall, they gained the beach, and, with the utmost carefulness, made for a group of rocks, high and dry beyond the tide-mark, from which they could watch the sea, and the headland into which the cave penetrated.

The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

At last they found that they had penetrated beyond the tide-mark, and, as they began to ascend, there came to their nostrils the smell of petrol from the garage.

The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

The occasional humorous realism that so much heightened the emotional effect of Elizabethan Tragedy, Cleopatra's old man with an asp let us say, carrying the tragic crisis by its contrast above the tide-mark of Corneille's courtly theatre, was made at the outset to please the common citizen standing on the rushes of the floor; but the great speeches were written by poets who remembered their patrons in the covered galleries.

Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa Ezra Pound 1928