flood tide

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• in the flood tide of his success
• On the outward downwind leg, against the flood tide, he covered the two miles in ‘half a quarter of one hour’, an impressive speed of sixteen knots.
• Hairy crabs would be attracted by the light and crawl upwards during the flood tide, where they would be trapped after the ebb.
• The rapid flow flood tide makes the construction very difficulty, leading to the breaking of piles.
• It moved in inexorably like a flood tide, washing over the barriers, filling the hollows till he floated helplessly in its eddies. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• According to the swinging of the ship in the evenings, the flood tide ceased to run at eight hours and a half after the moon passed the upper meridian, whereas in the mornings it ceased seven hours and a half after the moon passed below; whether the same difference took place in the times of high water by the shore, I cannot tell; but if the mean of the morning's and evening's tides be taken as the time of high water, it will follow _eight hours after_ the moon, the same nearly as in Malay Road. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
• Sailors of the Hound, blamed by Captain Mustard for running down his timber hoy, admitted that their collier lay so low in the water she could not pass over a shelf in the Thames near Rainham until flood tide.
• The bow doors would open, allowing the cargo of tanks, armoured cars, bulldozers or lorries to drive off, and the LST would then wait for the flood tide to float it off again.
• The flood tide of religious emotionalism ebbed but to flow in other channels? and men who had been so profoundly stirred by the revivalist were the more readily moved by the appeal of the revolutionary orator. Beginnings of the American People
• It was there the journey became even more hazardous and disjointed as they encountered a flood tide of humanity streaming towards them.