Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. From LearnThat.org. [Bruce Barton, American advertising executive and copywriter.]
"It is vat you call ebb," said the French captain. From Wordnik.com. [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference
You can see the long term ebb and flow of cycle allocation over time. From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
"What made you try the South Channel in ebb tide and an inshore wind?". From Wordnik.com. [Spice and the Devil's Cave] Reference
This point, or ebb, is called the uncanny valley - see the chart below. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
But I also hear what you say about blogging having a certain ebb-and-flow energy to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Honest Scrap Meme « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
My appreciation for Joe Biden has been subject to a certain ebb and flow over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
And we have seen the line behind us kind of ebb and flow throughout the morning here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2004] Reference
Things kind of ebb and flow as an artist, and you've just got to shoot what you want to shoot. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Photographer Friedler Gets Stripped Naked in Las Vegas] Reference
He would miss it if the new assignment wasn't a posting with the same kind of ebb and flow of adrenaline. From Wordnik.com. [City of Bones]
At last the lowest point of the "ebb" is reached -- a few minutes 'rest, and then the "flow" begins again. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
Remember you are just in an "ebb" moment, and you could be seconds away from a "flow". From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
With no wind, and no anchor, and the kind of ebb tide there'll be pretty soon -- well, if we don't drift out to sea we'll be lucky. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference
"Jefferson 'quainted wid ebb'rybody, an' ebb'rybody 'quainted wid. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"ebb," though I do not myself object to it, nor wish to have it altered, will I fear prove obscure to nine readers out of ten. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
Finally, American pressure on Netanyahu is bound to ebb. From Wordnik.com. [Between Barack and a Hard Place] Reference
ECEVIT: At the moment our relations are at a rather low ebb. From Wordnik.com. ['Everybody Has To Change'] Reference
"You just have to learn to roll with the ebb and flow," she rued. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick K. Baker: Hey You, Mr. Self-Employed ... Meet The New Normal] Reference
Normally, this Economics 101 ebb and flow would have worked itself out. From Wordnik.com. [Defeat At Pork Chop Hill] Reference
For weeks they battled in that natural, timeless, ebb and flow of conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Pets] Reference
On the wall behind him, charts track the ebb and flow of death in the province. From Wordnik.com. [Mosul struggles with ethnic divides, insurgency] Reference
"Because the place is at a low ebb, you feel that anything is possible," he goes on. From Wordnik.com. [Pride of Place] Reference
After Verdun, he began to see ordered patterns in the ebb and flow of human history. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
Then I turned to the gray ebb of the spreadsheet screen and entered a few numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Scorpionic Births: A Letter to an Unborn Daughter] Reference
(Slate. com) Darwinism. com Tech ads are bound to ebb, but interest in tech news won't. From Wordnik.com. [Can't. Make. Meeting. Must. Drop. Weight.] Reference
I wondered how close he'd ever been to her in this ebb and flow, this distance between us. From Wordnik.com. [Bell X1: Rock Dressed In Electro Beats] Reference
Hostility to immigrants, government and each other tends to ebb and flow with economic fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Max Fraad Wolff: We Are Here: The State of the Economy] Reference
As I spoke I felt the edges of the world ebb gradually back from the droning sound of my voice. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
But even armed with dictatorial powers, Gorbachev seemed helpless to prevent the ebb of his own influence. From Wordnik.com. [Heading For A Crackup?] Reference
The Darlings 'sound just seemed to ebb and flow, perfectly intergrated with the hallowed halls of the Whitney. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Grimm: Bear Hands And The Darlings Bring Edge To The Whitney] Reference
Geoff, mesmerized, watched the glowing end of the green cigar, the ebb and flow of its ember as the swami puffed. From Wordnik.com. [The Naked Mountain] Reference
Maybe there is an ebb and flow to innocence, and it can return — what seems lost to us now can in time flow again. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Innocence] Reference
"I am guessing we'll hit a peak here this year or next year and then we'll see it ebb back from this edge," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Comic-Con in San Diego makes a heroic effort to party hearty] Reference
He came up here and said all campaigns have an ebb and a flow, all campaigns make mistakes, and we've corrected ours. From Wordnik.com. [And Now, Round 2] Reference
The day started in the negative after weaker-than-expected Chinese trade data stoked fears that demand for U.S. raw materials could ebb. From Wordnik.com. [Dow Falls 54.50 Points] Reference
Memetics hasn't achieved such precision, but that is its mission: to explain how beliefs gain currency, and to predict their ebb and flow. From Wordnik.com. [Viruses Of The Mind: How Odd Ideas Survive] Reference
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