The ebb tide, however, was beginning to run and helped her across the shoals.

Levarchan, whom he loved, a maid most fair, Rose-lipp'd, with yellow hair and sea-grey eyes, The evil tidings to Cuchullin bare.

He was then ordered to go forth to the public assembly and impart the joyful tidings to the people.

I had only just time to complete my observations when the roaring of the incoming tide warned me that no time was to be lost in returning to the horses, which were nearly a mile higher up the river.

The sea was no friendly element to unhappy Pericles, for long before they reached Tyre another dreadful tempest arose, which so terrified Thaisa that she was taken ill, and in a short space of time her nurse Lychorida came to Pericles with a little child in her arms, to tell the prince the sad tidings that his wife died the moment her little babe was born.

Then Robin's heart fell, for he knew they were the bearers of ill tidings.

The heart-alluring damsel instant flew To tell the welcome tidings to her lord.

A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The days' disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.

"Mighty swift tide sweeping around de head of dat island!"

Before them lay the swift tide of the broad East River; and beyond that, with its borders of crowded docks and bristling masts, lay the streets and squares, and swarmed the multitudes, of the great city of New York.

The dreadful tidings to my mother bear, And soothe her anguish with the tenderest care; Say, that the will of righteous Heaven decreed, That thus in arms her mighty son should bleed.

Unlook'd for, and disguis'd, They reach Mycene, feigning to have brought The mournful tidings of Orestes' death, Together with his ashes.

Of course Holland was unable to resist such an overwhelming tide of enemies, such vast and disproportionate forces.

Thomas, the ex-apothecary, who did his best to stem the adverse tide of trouble, caught the smallpox, became blind, and died at the beginning of June.

" So far then from the besiegers' side; Renault's description of the fight is as follows: "The three largest vessels, aided by the high-water of the equinoctial tides, which, moreover, had moved the vessels sunk in the narrow passage, passed over the sunken ships, which did not delay them for a moment, to within half pistol shot of the Fort, and opened fire at 6 a.m.

War, indeed, was found "a dangerous game" on that woeful day: both for princes and nobles, and many a poor soul was swept away "Floating in a purple tide.

Yet better far the crimson tide should flow, Than the heart inly with its anguish bleed. SERENADE.

Thus we see how early in the history of our country, the restless tide moved westward.

I found him sitting by a Fountain side, Whose Tears had power to swell the little tide, Which from the Marble Statues breasts still flows: As silent and as numberless were those.

After they have once become a steady tide, nothing can check their force or turn their direction.

The sun was said to have set in streams of blood, and the moon to have shown without reflecting a shadow; grisly shapes appeared at nightstrange clamours and groans were heard in the airhearses, coffins, and heaps of unburied dead were discovered in the sky, and great cakes and clots of blood were found in the Tower moat; while a marvellous double tide occurred at London Bridge.

But since he crossed the rapid tide, According to the doubtful story, To woo, andLord knows what beside, And swam for love as I for glory, 'Twere hard to say who fared the best; Sad mortals thus the gods still plague you; He lost his labour, I my jest

No need for Blanch her history to tell, Whoever saw her face, they there did read it well; But when I look on thee, I only know There lived a pretty maid some hundred years ago," This is a little unfair, to tell so much about ourselves, and to advert so little to your letter, so full of comfortable tidings of you all But my own cares press pretty close upon me, and you can make allowance.

I remember how she looked, framed there in the doorway, while we were watching for the coach,the late light ebbing in golden tides over the grass at her feet, and touching her face now and then through the branches of trees, her head bent a little, with eager, parted lips, and the girlish color on her cheeks, her hand shading her eyes as they strained for a sight of the lumbering coach.

When it was handed to her, I saw, at a glance, that it contained for her the most sorrowful tidings.