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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tidal wave (which see, under tidal).

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Examples

  • Examine the shingle along our beaches: we find it so distributed as to show that the fading tide-wave has carried the lighter materials farther than the heavier ones, and the successive deposits exhibit an imperfect cross-stratification resulting from changes in the height of the tide and the direction of the wind.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • It was as if some vast tide-wave had surged over the country and rolled through it, searching out the easiest passages.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • At this point we may as well consider the history of the Races of Mankind, that we may see how the great tide-wave of Soul has ever pressed onward, marking higher and still higher stages of progress, and also how the various minor waves of the great wave pushed in and then receded, only to be followed by still higher waves.

    A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • The tides we, and other coast-possessing nations, experience are the overflow or back-wash of these oceanic humps, and I will now show you in what manner the great Atlantic tide-wave reaches the British Isles twice a day.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

  • Unitarians have first felt the tide-wave: but all other sects will follow; and after them will follow members of the Established Church in proportion as they have been believing, not in the Catholic and

    The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) Mark Rutherford 1872

  • Merriment and jocularity, a little tide-wave of social excitement, swelled and broke on all sides of me; making a soft ripply play of fun and repartee, difficult to describe, and which touched me as much as it amused.

    Daisy 1868

  • Soon after 2 p.m. a white line was seen on the low black horizon, which was the tide-wave, advancing at the rate of five miles an hour, with a hollow roar; it bore back the mud that was gradually slipping along the gentle slope, and we were afloat an hour after: at night we grounded again, opposite the mouth of the Fenny.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Sidhee, and thence made a stretch to Hattiah, an island which may be said to be moving bodily to the westward, the Megna annually cutting many acres from the east side; and the tide-wave depositing mud on the west.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • It was as if some vast tide-wave had surged over the country and rolled through it, searching out the easiest passages.

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Merriment and jocularity, a little tide-wave of social excitement, swelled and broke on all sides of me; making a soft ripply play of fun and repartee, difficult to describe, and which touched me as much as it amused.

    Daisy Susan Warner 1852

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