On Thursday at high-tide (about noon) the engagement was renewed. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
No member is allowed to open his mouth except at high-tide by the calendar. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Above the high-tide line the sand dunes were as powdery blue with lupine as the. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Flies buzzed furrily along the snaking hillock of sand above the high-tide mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
People we encounter are bundled fingertip to toe and stay above the high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Thing I've Done] Reference
The fourteenth year of Beran's reign saw the high-tide of prosperity and well-being. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
Then he hurried on to the next cove and a spot well above an obvious high-tide mark. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
Suddenly a compact man with high-tide hair and shades came to the podium: Lars Ulrich. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Jukebox] Reference
And offhand, who would even know the high-tide tables except fishermen and lobstermen?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
Storms and tides had conspired to push the Paragon to the limits of the high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
Wooden crossbeams are then attached to the top of each stake above the high-tide levels. From Wordnik.com. [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference
I'd say that that's probably only about a foot and a half higher than normal high-tide level. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005] Reference
In daylight you could see the high-tide marks on the buildings, creeping higher all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
They were cast about on the sand above the high-tide line, like toys abandoned by some godling. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
Now, with the high-tide line receding even farther, he is contemplating adding another nine holes. From Wordnik.com. [Land Rising In Alaska As Glaciers Melt | Impact Lab] Reference
Here is one that came from under some piles of seaweed at the high-tide mark at one of the beaches. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The election of Barak Obama will be seen by history as the high-tide mark followed by a long retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’] Reference
It kind of just looked like a regular high-tide wave, and then it just got more intense and more intense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2004] Reference
The next time I catch you at high-tide, I'll scrap you, that's what I'll do, fire you into the scrap-pile. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Others including Florida and New Jersey define state property as anything seaward of the mean high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Beach Is This Anyway?] Reference
You don't want to bring your Kindle or your laptop along to the beach on a beautiful, windswept, high-tide day. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Pros and Cons of eBooks] Reference
By eight we were on the back of Dewees Island, in a stand of maritime forest five yards in from the high-tide beach. From Wordnik.com. [Break No Bones]
Coming to rest among the dunes well inland of the high-tide mark, the massive mechanism settled partway into the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
On the shore, an eli or more above the high-tide mark, stood a square of huts formed by four perfectly straight lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
The water surface in the well is thirteen feet above high-tide level, and the depth of water in the well is fourteen feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
On the beach the last sack and box had been carried up to a place selected by Silvertip as being above the high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Between low water and the flotsam and jetsam of the high-tide mark, land and sea wage a never-ending conflict for possession. From Wordnik.com. [Undersea (historical)] Reference
Previously, I lived in the San Francisco Bay area at sea level and we were always afraid of a freaky high-tide (never happened). From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Front Residence in West Vancouver: A culmination of the warm and cool] Reference
He used his elbows and his knees, digging grooves in the sand above the twist of dirty green kelp which marked the high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
In ten minutes it would be high-tide: and, if Captain Nemo had not made a rash promise, the Nautilus would be immediately detached. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Only the waves, the shells, the high-tide line, the marks of his own approach-bootprints and holes that had been made by his elbows. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
The Freya was in dry dock, where her hull had been drying out above the high-tide line in preparation for a new coat of copper paint. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
The Spaniards had sent a company of infantry down to the beach where the blue-coated soldiers were now drawn up at the high-tide line. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Officials warning that waves -- look at these -- they could reach as high as 50 feet, thanks to strong winds and unusual high-tide levels. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2004] Reference
It is a leg of ebb and flow and high-tide ripples. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
It was high-tide, and there was deep water on three sides of the Cob. From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens] Reference
Come on, we've ALL seen a band of high-tide seaweed along any beach in the World. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
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