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Sentences starting with tide

Tide me death, betide me life, saith the king, now I see him yonder alone, he shall never escape mine hands, for at a better avail shall I never have him. [5]

Sentences ending with tide

My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
The sidewalks swarmed with people--to such an extent, indeed, that it was generally no easy matter to stem the human tide. [5]
Its slimy bottom was quite a ghastly spectacle, an ugly gash in the land that nothing could heal but the friendly returning tide. [4]
The cutter leaped under the strong strokes up the river with the tide. [9]
If I were to suggest, I would say, save your army by taking strong positions until Burnside joins you, when, I hope, you can turn the tide. [7]
It was high tide. [11]
Here it was then in its reality, and I, at length, steaming against its tide. [5]
Then I caught the sound of a light footstep, the knob turned, and joy poured into my soul with the sweep of a Fundy tide. [9]
Having got a start, it came flooding in, tide after tide. [5]
There are inscriptions on our hearts, which, like that on Dighton Rock, are never to be seen except at dead-low tide. [6]

Short sentences using tide

The tide was running fast. [11]

Sentences containing tide two or more times

I knows a tide, an' it's a good tide, The tide that gets you quick to anchors down. [11]
The tide is settin' in, the tide is settin' in. [9]
I knows a day, an' it's a fine day, The day a sailor man comes back to town; I knows a tide, an' it's a good tide, The tide that gets you quick to anchors down. [11]

More example sentences with the word tide in them

And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
Before we reached Wolfville we came in sight of this basin and some of the estuaries and streams that run into it; that is, when the tide goes out; but they are only muddy ditches half the time. [4]
But to-day--a little while ago--something went wrong with me, and I got sick in the head, a swimming like a tide wash in and out. [11]
The tide was well out, the moon shining brightly. [11]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
This is all very well so long as fortune favors those who are chosen to be the ornamental personages; but if the golden tide recedes and leaves them stranded, they are more to be pitied than almost any other class. [6]
That unanimity and variety of censure in the morning papers, combined with the attractiveness of the thing itself, has cleared every stand in the city, and now if the favor of the country press doesn't turn the tide against us, our fortune's made. [8]
We pushed along, unheeding its fiery signal to bring to; and declining, she let fly a swivel loaded with grape, and again another, riddling our sail; but we were travelling with wind and tide, and we soon left the indignant patrol behind. [11]
The tide was turning, and the candidate from Leith redoubled his efforts. [9]
The tide was turning very fast now, very fast indeed--but in the wrong direction; it was leaving poor Tom Canty stranded on the throne, and sweeping the other out to sea. [5]
Then there came towards him an officer, who said quietly, "The tide has turned, sir. [11]
But the tide, too, was running hard from the south, fighting the wind; and, at the moment when all seemed terribly uncertain, swept them past the opening and into the swift-running channel, where the indraught sucked them through to the more open water beyond. [11]
They were wont to swim with the tide of indolence, extravagance, self-seeking, and sordid pleasure now flowing through the hardy isles, from which had come much of the strength of the Old World and the vision and spirit of the New World. [11]
But I've had to run along with the tide, or give place to another man who would; and--and starve. [9]
Orpheus turned quickly to punish the prophet of evil; but he had disappeared in the crowd and the tide of men had borne him onwards. [10]
Was there naught to have stayed your tongue and stemmed the tide in which you would engulf me? [11]
Are we going to be able to stem the tide, or to help stem it with a lot of raw youths. [9]
It was high tide, and all the bay was silvery with a tinge of color from the glowing sky. [4]
You have the tide with you. [11]
It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore. [12]
Later, when the tide was turning and success was nearing, he was more able to work. [6]
Sure enough, the tide was coming in. [4]
Gradually the flood tide of emotion began to ebb, and the confusion of loving exclamations and incoherent words gained some order and separated into question and answer. [10]
Westward rolled the tide of emigrants to change her character, but to swell her power. [9]
The blood rushed through her veins in a hot tide at the thought; she could have laughed aloud and fallen on the neck of every one she met. [10]
It has turned the tide, set the current running the other way. [9]
By daylight, when the tide was out, the pretty silver bay of the night before was a mud flat, and the tourists, looking over it from Monument Hill, lost some of their respect for the Pilgrim sagacity in selecting a landing-place. [4]
I saw that the tide was against me, that I was like that old English king who set his throne on the sands and thought he could stay the waters. [9]
Rushing in against the tide outpouring, tall, stern, vigorous, is a young man whom many recognize, whose name is on many lips as they make way for him, who might have saved them if he would. [9]
But at last the tide of fortune turned; young Caruthers became infect with smallpox of the most virulent type, and when he recovered from his illness his face was pitted like a waffle-mold, and his comeliness gone forever. [5]
During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours. [5]
Byng has turned the tide by turning the Boer flank. [11]
The wind and the sea were against them; the tide, however, was in their favour. [11]
You can count the pulse of the giant wherever the tide runs up a creek; but if you want to look at the giant's tongue, you must go to Niagara. [6]
In "The Test," the Muse says:-- "I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find; All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted good and true ... Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. [6]
We were keeping the middle of the great river, as safest from detection, and when the tide was with us we could thus move more rapidly. [11]
It is true, the great proclamation, which stamped the war as one for "union and freedom," did not at once mark the turning of the tide on the field of military operations. [7]
The Seigneur's words the day before had driven her back upon a tide of emotions which carried her far out upon that sea where reason and life's conventions are derelicts, where Love sails with reckless courage down the shoreless main. [11]
By eight of the clock we had crept into Kirkcudbright Bay and anchored off St. Mary's Isle, the tide running ebb, and leaving a wide brown belt of sand behind it. [9]
The tide of the artist's happiness was at flood, now. [5]
So it was that this dreadnought of industry and organization, in dock for repairs, cheerfully awaited the hour when he would be launched again upon the tide of work-healthy, healed and whole. [11]
His arm was struggling with the tide once more, and this time more successfully. [10]
Its stone was stained with age, and the stern front of it seemed to mock the unseemly and impetuous haste of the tide rushing through its arches. [9]
Everybody bought, everybody sold--except widows and preachers; they always hold on; and when the tide ebbs, they get left. [5]
One bright name shall be ours on high, if we are not permitted to be united here; bear in mind that I still cherish my old sentiments, and the poet will mingle the names of Elfonzo and Ambulinia in the tide of other days. [5]
But I should say that if he turns up anywhere, he'll come ashore somewhere about Grinidge to-morrow, at ebb tide, eh, mate? [12]
It was the same thing, you remember, with King Canute and the tide on the sea-shore. [6]
As the hawk sails without flapping his pinions, so you drift with the tide when you will, in the most luxurious form of locomotion indulged to an embodied spirit. [6]
The tide was running strong round the point, and the surf was heavy, so that once or twice the boat was almost overturned; but Jean had measured well the currents and the wind. [11]
As they had rounded the point, where they were hid from view, Abednego dropped overboard and swam ashore on the rising tide, making his way to the manor to warn Buonespoir. [11]
The dolorous tide rolled back in this hour from his life, and he revelled in the light of a new day. [11]
By hugging the quay in the channel to the left of the bar, they were sure of getting in, though the tide was low. [11]
The judge was prepared to take advantage of the tide, whatever its cause. [9]
It was the passion of her life, the time when her whole nature went to flood tide and swept away all barriers. [5]
It was gazing out over the ocean of Time--over lines of century-waves which, further and further receding, closed nearer and nearer together, and blended at last into one unbroken tide, away toward the horizon of remote antiquity. [5]
Yet there was one thing in their favour: the tide was now running hard from the north-west, so fighting for them while the wind was against them. [11]
At one spot on this shore rises a vast mass of detached rock, separated at low tide from the shore by irregular bowlders and a tiny thread of water. [4]
I was just on the point of starting to Esmeralda, but turned with the tide and got ready for Humboldt. [5]
He was already on his feet again, or would be if Mr. Bolton could tide him over shoal water for ninety days. [5]
Behold, The Wine of Youth once poured, is poured no more 'Come, leave the Cup, and on the Winter's Snow Your Summer Garment of Enjoyment throw: Your Tide of Life is ebbing fast, and it, Exhausted once, for You no more shall flow. [5]
But the tide of travel passes it by, and the few people who were there seemed lonesome. [4]
At length, out of the silence a noble Latin chant--men's voices--broke and swelled up and rolled away into the night, a majestic tide of melody. [5]
Hence the tide of our days flows by in deep and untroubled serenity. [5]
Our craft was none too large for our party, but she must do; and safely in, we pushed out upon the current, which was in our favour, for the tide was going out. [11]
The tide of my exhilaration had ebbed, and I found myself struggling against a revulsion caused, apparently, by the contemplation of Colonel Varney and his associates; the instruments, in brief, by which our triumph over our opponents was to be effected. [9]
They were bantering Mr. King about his Narragansett excursion, his cousin having maliciously given the party a hint of his encounter with the tide at the Pier. [4]
Mrs. Plimpton had moved towards her, as if to speak, but Alison hurried past, her exaltation suddenly shattered, replaced by a rising tide of resentment, of angry amazement against a materialism so solid as to remain unshaken by the words which had so uplifted her. [9]
So he would move against the tide, and would startle, even if he did not convince. [11]
And on this motion," thundered Mr. Sutton, above the tide of rising voices, "the yeas and nays are called for. [9]
Like to a mother bending o'er the bed Where sleeps, death-silent, one that left her side Ere he had reached the flow of manhood's tide, So stood I by my life whence Life had fled. [11]
It was still more than half tide when they approached the rocks, and with a fair wind there should be ease in landing. [11]
For a single mischance might set the tide running to massacre. [9]
And in the midst of them, swinging to the tide, were the big "mother ships" we have sent over to nurse them when, after many days and nights of hazardous work at sea, they have brought their flock of transports and merchantmen safely to port. [9]
At last a mercifully swift tide of flame burst upward, and none saw that face any more nor that form, and the voice was still. [5]
Having by this means composed his spirits and put himself in a pleasant train, he returned to his unsuspicious companion, whom he found looking at the tide with exceeding gravity, and thinking of that same gold and silver which Mr Quilp had mentioned. [12]
But the great man was now in the full tide of his anger. [9]
Precious minutes were lost in accomplishing this circuitous descent, and then they found the stepping-stones under water, and the sea-weed swishing about the slippery rocks with the incoming tide. [4]
He delayed too long: the tide turned; there could be no landing that night. [11]
There is very little tide at any time, so that the shores are clean and sightly for the most part, like those of fresh-water lakes. [4]
In this same letter he exclaims: "With all my exertions, I seem always to keep about up to my chin in troubled water, while the world, I suppose, thinks I am sailing smoothly, with wind and tide in my favor. [4]
As strange as Lassiter's coolness was Venters's curious, intent scrutiny of them both, and under it Jane felt a flaming tide wave from bosom to temples. [13]
I did not know that this was in me, this tide of love, this current of devotion. [11]
And then, presently, it changes the tide of public opinion. [5]
If my theory is correct, what I have given him may tide over that danger, but only on one condition can he continue to live and become a useful member of society. [9]
It seemed to him that he had literally cast his bread upon the waters, and apparently at an ebb tide, and his venture had gone to the fathomless sea. [4]
The tide was high, and the ragged rocks of the Banc des Violets in the south and the Corbiore in the west were all but hidden. [11]
The strait is here less than a mile wide; the tide is running strongly, and the water is full of swirls,--the little whirlpools of the rip-tide. [4]
So from the heights of Will Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each widening torrent bends, From the same cradle's side, From the same mother's knee, --One to long darkness and the frozen tide, One to the Peaceful Sea! [6]
I don't believe he'd mind throttling me, and dropping me softly into the river when the tide was at its strongest, any more than he'd mind killing a rat--indeed I don't know whether he wouldn't consider it a pleasant joke. [12]
Wherever he went he drew the swarms in the streets as the moon draws the tide. [4]
Yet he saw, he could not but see, the spiritual danger in this rising tide of adulation. [4]
Then he had gone to the Hospital Barracks, was there iniquitously called a lousy toad, and had been driven off with his quartern loaf, muttering through the dough the island proverb "While the mariner swigs the tide rises. [11]
The tide was going out rapidly, disclosing reefs on either hand. [11]
You can not go in at all when the tide is up. [5]
The distant ships glittered like burnished gold; the little boats near the beach heaved on the ebbing tide, inviting occupants. [14]
The moon wheels full, and the tide flows high, And your wedding-gown you must put it on Ere the night hath no moon in the sky Gigoton, Mergaton, spin! [11]
The moon wheels full, and the tide flows high, And your wedding-gown you must put it on Ere the night hath no moon in the sky-- Gigoton Mergaton, spin! [11]

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