ebbtide

The one immediate relief was the discovery that the British men-of-war had been able to do no more than send a few shots in the direction of the fort at Red Hook and then, in the face of an ebbtide, anchor out of range.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The one immediate relief was the discovery that the British men-of-war had been able to do no more than send a few shots in the direction of the fort at Red Hook and then, in the face of an ebbtide, anchor out of range.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The one immediate relief was the discovery that the British men-of-war had been able to do no more than send a few shots in the direction of the fort at Red Hook and then, in the face of an ebbtide, anchor out of range.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The one immediate relief was the discovery that the British men-of-war had been able to do no more than send a few shots in the direction of the fort at Red Hook and then, in the face of an ebbtide, anchor out of range.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

In those conditions the ebbtide could be unpredictably fierce.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

Perhaps a better comparison is that of ripples or gentle waves, as seen following each other on the ebbtide in a still time, on the beach.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

She ran aground and, as there still remained two hours of daylight she was apparently at the mercy of the ironclad, but the pilots were afraid to attempt the channel at ebbtide.

Chapter III 1917

Simone Buonarroti, his father, belonged to an ebbtide branch of the nobility that had lost everything but the memory of great ancestors turned to dust.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

But this ebbtide of inner life was not regular and incessant, but rather after the fashion of waves which retreat surely indeed, but returning again and again, seem for moments to regain almost more than their past altitude.

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

It has its flood-tide and its ebbtide in correspondence to external conditions, either forcing the nation to defend its nationality, or relieving it of the necessity for self-defense.

Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900