"High tide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the moment of high tide had swept snarling over the stream and carried the bridge into ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... no advantage and losing a considerable number of men. At last Teligny made a sortie, and a determined action took place without advantage on either side. The defenders were then recalled to the fort, the sluice gates were opened, and the waters of the Scheldt, swollen by a high tide, poured over the country. Swept by the fire of the guns of the fort and surrounded by water, the Spaniards were forced to make a rapid retreat, struggling breast high ...
— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty
... there a little while. The growing wind, which marked the high tide of night, lifted his hat-brim and let the moonlight fall upon his troubled face. Around him was the peace of the sleeping earth, with its ripe harvest in its hand; the scents of ripe leaves and fruit came out of the orchard; ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... river was three times its usual size, and was further made unmanageable by the impeding logs swept in by the high tide. Straw and weeds and rubbish of every description choked its course, and little foaming currents and backwaters almost filled the cave ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... from the marshes on pack-horses, equipped each with a white canvas bag, led by boys either to the quay, where large vessels were lying, or to small barques which could be brought at high tide, by natural or artificial inlets, into the very ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
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