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

In Cicero's time this mode of divination was at a very low ebb.

But to be human was to love life, to hate death, to faint under loss, to throb and pant with heavy sighs, to lie sleepless in the long dark night, to shrink with unutterable sadness at the wan light of dawn, to follow duty with a laggard sense, to feel the slow ebb of vitality and not to care, to suffer with a breaking heart.

At the Gate the width is suddenly reduced to less than a mile, and hence at ebb and flow the current is very swift.

"She'd have steered handier if we'd gone in against the ebb; but there's a better chance of coming off if she touches ground.

I broke in, stepping hastily in front of Mr. Hines, for I had seen all the pink ebb out of his face, leaving it a dreadful sort of gray; and I had no desire to be witness of a murder, however much I might deem it justified.

You will say, if I do not, that in time the world will come round to Christianity, which is at a low ebb at present.

"He now felt certain that he could reach the shore; but he considered it would be better to get within hail of the brig, some distance to the southward of him, and the most difficult task of the two, as the ebb tide was now running, which, although it carried him towards the land, set to the northward; and to gain the object of his choice would require much greater exertion.

Then came an ebb, a pause.

He is a tower amid the waters, his foundation is upon a rock, he moves not with the ebb and flow of the stream.

Then to the President, and, if signed by him, I shall return with renovated spirits, for I assure you I have for some time been at the lowest ebb, and can now scarcely realize that a turn has occurred in my favor.

My spirits were at ebb-tide, very low.

As the contents of the shops are exhibited in the windows, so the character of the visitors is shown by the crowds, and the life of the place is seen in the constant ebb and flow of the people on the Höheweg.

Now when you ask her if she likes Benedictine, don't be at all surprised to have her dreamily murmur: 'But why should oranges always be yellow?'" "I am glad that I do not live in the Mississippi Valley," Kate went on, superiorly ignoring the observation, "because the joy of living seems to be at a very low ebb out here.

It can float up on the Virginia tide, and ebb down on the Maryland.

Right royally came the lords of the wildernessmembers of the Council perhaps, and in brave gold-laced attiredropping down with the ebb tide to the tiny capital in the island marshes.

At the last of the ebb, a snag over near the shore would suddenly add on another angle and jab down in the water, coming up again with a shiver and a fish.

But the ebb had only begun.

We paddled very slowly, often stopping to let the boat drift on the ebb tide.

You are off with the flood just in from the sea, or with the ebb that is seeking the sea; and with it you go along a way where no one has passed beforean evanescent way that is made of night shades and river mists.

In the presence of so conclusive an ebb and cessation an almost obituary manner seems justifiable.

You will learn how the tides ebb and flow, and see the moon come up out of the water.

But though here and there in England good designers came to the front, as a general rule the art of design in furniture and decorative woodwork was at a very low ebb about this time.

Had his Majesty, at the head of his army, with the full reputation they had before, and in the ebb of their affairs, rested at Windsor, and commenced a treaty, they had certainly made more reasonable proposals; but now the scabbard seemed to be thrown away on both sides.

He knew every pass and piece of water like A, B, C, and could tell, faster, much faster than he could repeat the multiplication table (upon which he was a little slow and doubtful), the amount of water in each at ebb tidePass Jean or Petit Pass, Unknown Pass, Petit Rigolet, Chef Menteur, Out on the far southern horizon, in the Gulfthe Gulf of Mexicothere appears a speck of white.