44 examples of spring-tide in sentences

But what with its being a spring-tide, and the sea breaking clean over the great outer beach of pebblesa thing that had not happened for fifty yearsthere was so much water piled up in the lagoon, that it passed its bounds and flooded all the sea meadows, and even the lower end of the street.

I fixed yesterday with the Bonaventure's men that they should lie underneath this ledge tomorrow sennight, if the sea be smooth, and take us off on the spring-tide.

There was a spring-tide with full moon, and a light breeze setting off the land which left the water smooth under the cliff.

He is no longer in his spring-tide, but having been always busy he has been obliged to use his first impressions as if they were deliberate opinions, and to range himself on the corresponding side in ignorance of much that he commits himself to; so that he retains some characteristics of a comparatively tender age, and among them a certain surprise that there have not been more persons equal to himself.

So spring-tide after spring-tide Tom searches, and all the more carefully because others are searching too, for waifs and strays from the wreck.

Does that distant roar of wheels in Piccadilly recall the rush and ripple of the Solway charging up its tawny sands with the white horses all abreast in a spring-tide?

I see these locks in silvery slips, This drooping gait, this altered size: But Spring-tide blossoms on thy lips, 35 And tears take sunshine from thine eyes!

FAUST and WAGNER FAUST Loosed from their fetters are streams and rills Through the gracious spring-tide's all-quickening glow; Hope's budding joy in the vale doth blow; Old Winter back to the savage hills Withdraweth his force, decrepid now.

The spring-tide of 1852 was bewitchingly beautiful; hills and plain were covered with wild flowers in countless shapes and hues.

Our belief in books rather than in Nature is one of humanity's most curious characteristics, and a very irreligious one, it seems to me; and I am glad to think that it was your sunny face that raised up my crushed instincts, that brought me back to life, and ever since you have been associated in my mind with the sun and the spring-tide.

'One day in the beginning of March, coming back from a long walk on the hills, I heard the bleat of the lamb and the impatient cawing of the rook that could not put its nest together in the windy branches, and as I stopped to listen it seemed to me that something passed by in the dusk: the spring-tide itself seemed to be fleeting across the tillage towards the scant fields.

I have seen such an eye in men possessedwith devils, or with self: sleek, passionless men, who are too refined to be manly, and measure their grace by their effeminacy; crooked vermin, who swarm up in pious times, being drowned out of their earthly haunts by the spring-tide of religion; and so making a gain of godliness, swim upon the first of the flood, till it cast them ashore on the firm beach of wealth and station.

It lay there like a mass of drift-wood from a wreck, left by the ebbing of a high spring-tide upon the sandsremnant of some friendly, splendid vessel that once sheltered men.

From youth to age, from morn to eve From Spring-tide to December, The Holy Sepulchre of Christ Remember!

In these we have allowed neither autumn nor winter to impair our exertions; and, however time may have worn otherwise with us, we still feel all the youth and freshness of spring-tide, warmed by the genial ray of public favour.

Should Spring-tide Love endure delay?

Hetty's was a spring-tide beauty; it was the beauty of young frisking things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of innocencethe innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe steeple-chase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the middle of a bog.

Nevertheless, Lewisham's spring-tide mood relapsed into winter.

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

It played in the great alley of poplars, whose leaves appear to me yellow, even in the spring-tide, since Maria passed there with the tall candles for the last time.

and I thinking you to have come with the spring-tide, the way you had luck through your life!

Vercingetorix was one of those who persevere and act in the days of distress just as in the spring-tide of their hopes.

I was in time to catch her in my arms as the soldiers of Plassenburg, with Prince Karl at their head, came through the White Gate like a spring-tide, carrying all before them.

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

spring-tide Flowers grow forest-high around.

44 examples of  spring-tide  in sentences