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Examples
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Reaching out in advance of the pack, it clove through the water till on either side there formed a bore like that of a quick flood-tide in an inland passage.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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One of them closed upon his fingers at low-tide, and then the flood-tide came in and drowned him.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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"He understands better than any speaker of his years … how to quicken slow blood, kindle light in dull eyes, and bring the flood-tide of enthusiasm sweeping into all creeks and inlets of the spirit."
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Travel 2009
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A flood-tide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Dove's Eye View: 2008
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Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
Traveling 2008
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Here accordingly the flood-tide — for this tide often retreats from the land and bursts back again over the beach coming on with a rush and roar — thrust them suddenly on to the innermost shore, and but little of the keel was left in the water.
The Argonautica 2008
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When it recently opened a lounge called Club Shanghai, the five-star Regent Hotel in Kowloon gave further proof that treaty-port chic may become the flood-tide fashion in Hong Kong.
brtom commented on the word flood-tide
"Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;" Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 1
January 4, 2008