tide-washed

Walked around downtown Chicago today, after spending the night at kaynorr's distant, tide-washed Aerie discovering just how smooth and wonderful Belvedere vodka is, especially in gimlets, which gimlets I blame on James Wallis, who got me hooked on them.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

It is also a place of history, a settlement founded almost two thousand years ago by the Romans beside the banks of a meandering tide-washed river they called Tamesis.

Whispers Of Betrayal Dobbs, Michael, 1948- 2000

Mandalay, which required three feet more and still lay firm as a rock, and, like a tide-washed rock, was swept by the seas which were flying over her.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Dan took his companion's arm, and climbed the tide-washed bank.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

As the ship forged slowly across the Basin and came beneath the shadow of the frown of Blomidon, Pierrot pointed out first the perilous ledge to which he had climbed for the vanished "star," and then the tide-washed hollow under the cliff, where they had picked up the body of the luckless sailor from St. Malo.

Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

He must have seen that there were people in distress on the tide-washed strip of sand.

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

All these various elements of coastal environment are further differentiated in their use and their influence according to the purposes of those who come to tenant such tide-washed rims of the land.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

The nature and amount of these influences depend upon the sea or ocean whose rim the coast in question helps to form, and the relations of that coast to its other tide-washed shores.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Norway shows a tide-washed piedmont, containing a large majority of the population; above this, a steep slope sparsely inhabited; and higher still, a wild plateau summit occupied in summer only by grazing herds or migrant reindeer Lapps.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Many of them were mere tide-washed ledges, environed by ice-fields.

Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887