Synonyms for ebb tide
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of ebb tide
- noun receding tide
- Dinsmore, watching beside him, knew that it was the ebb tide.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- Douglas, as I have said, had the disadvantage of riding an ebb tide.
- Extract from : « America First » by Various
- Had the girl been alone, she told herself, she would have given her to the ebb tide.
- Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
- Towards what fate was the ebb tide of the streets drifting them?
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- The wind fell, as I expected, and after dark we barely stemmed the ebb tide.
- Extract from : « Poor Jack » by Frederick Marryat
- No, I will not endanger these poor fellows—I will sail with the ebb tide.
- Extract from : « The Pirate » by Sir Walter Scott
- The ebb tide had run out, and the waters were beginning to rise again.
- Extract from : « Toilers of the Sea » by Victor Hugo
- I think we can use the ebb tide of our energies best in that way.
- Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James
- Its sand is yellow and fine, strewn with rose shells at the ebb tide.
- Extract from : « Japanese Fairy Tales » by Grace James
- I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide.
- Extract from : « Great Expectations » by Charles Dickens
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