I do not see how men claim property beyond the tide water.

There was the littoral region between tide marks with its sand-eels, pipe fishes, and blennies: the seaweed region, extending from low- water-mark to a depth of 450 feet, with its wrasses, rays, and flat fish; and the deep-sea region, from 450 feet to 1500 feet or more, with its file-fish, sharks, gurnards, cod, and sword-fish.

The Anglesey shore was fringed by reefs, the tide-races ran in white turmoil across the ledges.

It may come, but it shall be hoisted on the Rhine, and, helpless tide waiters, we cannot tell from which side it shall come.

The rise of tide is trifling, the flood-tide sets to the North-West, but at a very slow rate.

These are childish things to tell of, and instead of my own silly history, I wish I could remember the entertaining stories my uncle used to relate of his voyages and travels, while we sate under the shady trees, eating our noon-tide meal.

On our way we steered through strong tide-ripplings in which, at times, notwithstanding the strength of the breeze, the cutter was quite ungovernable.

A tide-pool close by was enclosed in pitch: a four-eyes was swimming about in it, staring up at us; and when we hunted him, tried to escape, not by diving, but by jumping on shore on the pitch, and scrambling off between our legs.

A wolf had only to trot for a mile or two along the tide line of a lonely beach, picking up the good things which the sea had brought him, and then go back to sleep or play satisfied.

The tide-flow system had its own limitations and handicaps.

I returned along the tide sands.

Atkinson reported a sea leopard at the tide crack; it proved to be a crab-eater, young and very active.

Did you just notice the tide-ripples, Mr. Mark, when you was up in the cross-trees?"

Those sand-hills are again eaten down by the sea, and mixed with the mud of the tide-flats, and so is formed a mingled soil, partly of clayey mud, partly of sand; such a soil as stretches over the greater part of all our lowlands.

Cur'ous tide-racks 'round here.

The reef is margined with blocks of coral, but the centre is mostly smooth and covered with sand part of which dries at low-water; the rise and fall, ascertained by a tide-pole set up here, was only four feet.

Finding this morning that Yolland (who called on me as soon as I had closed the letter to you) was perfectly inclined to go on with the tide observations at Southampton, and that his corporals of sappers were conducting them in the most exemplary manner, I determined on starting at once.

Joseph Manigault wrote of him in 1806: "Mr. Heyward has lately made another purchase of land, consisting of 300 acres of tide swamp, joining one of his Combahee plantations and belonging to the estate of Mrs. Bell.

The spring-tide shows but a bloom of unvarying freshness; August has languished and loved in the strength of the sun.

low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.

Farewell those forms that in thy noon-tide shade, Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820.

This peculiarity is described by Bishop Mant: "And goodly now the noon-tide hour, When from his high meridian tower

As sunset approached, we began to look for anchorage; but the suspicious nature of the bottom and the great depth of the water prevented our being successful until some time after dark; the anchor was at last dropped in twenty-eight fathoms, on a bottom of sandy mud, with the ebb-tide setting to the North-West, at the rate nearly of two knots.

The cause of the disaster was probably one of the strong tide eddies which exist in the Bay of Fundy, and which had set her in toward the shore.

We have had an exceptionally large tidal range during the last three daysit has upset the tide gauge arrangements and brought a little doubt on the method.