flood-mark

The north-western apex, raised about fifty feet above the present level of the waters, shows a little bay of pure sand, the detritus of its rocks, with a flood-mark fifteen feet high, whilst the opposite side bears

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Fifteen minutes of hard paddling landed us at Selele, a stony point between two sandy baylets: amongst the mass of angular boulders a tree again showed the highest flood-mark to be 13 feet.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The bay, like that of St. Aubin, is defended by a regular line of martello towers, several of which are built far within flood-mark, on reefs that form part of the Violet Bank.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various

Curiously enough, his inevitable returns of passion and interest, the always decreasing flood-mark, each time a line lower, did not deceive her, did not distract her.

The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929

But I caught a crab, and, before we could get to them, they were washed past into the top of a tree that stood well below flood-mark.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

That this last precaution is not superfluous is shown by the iron flood-mark set into the wall of the Anitchkoff Palace, on the southern shore of the Fontanka, as on so many other public buildings in the city, with "1824" appended, -- the date of one celebrated and disastrous inundation which attained in some places the height of thirteen feet and seven inches.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

The famous "dry election" was at hand, in which the depths of public feeling might be measured by the low flood-mark of drink.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

The famous "dry election" was at hand, in which the depths of public feeling might be measured by the low flood-mark of drink.

Middlemarch 1871

I found a small sloping, sandy, firm piece of ground, probably the only one in the glen, a little off from the creek, having some blood-wood or red gum-trees growing upon it, and above the reach of any flood-mark -- for it is necessary to be careful in selecting a site on a watercourse, as, otherwise, in a single instant everything might be swept to destruction.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

This was all the flood-mark that remained of the waters of verse with which he had at one time so plentifully inundated his soul.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864