In those conditions the ebbtide could be unpredictably fierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Crisis]

Perhaps a better comparison is that of ripples or gentle waves, as seen following each other on the ebbtide in a still time, on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

Charleston had shown a great party in the ebbtide of disintegration, tainted by the spirit of disunion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02] Reference

Simone Buonarroti, his father, belonged to an ebbtide branch of the nobility that had lost everything but the memory of great ancestors turned to dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference

She ran aground and, as there still remained two hours of daylight she was apparently at the mercy of the ironclad, but the pilots were afraid to attempt the channel at ebbtide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter III] Reference

It has its flood-tide and its ebbtide in correspondence to external conditions, either forcing the nation to defend its nationality, or relieving it of the necessity for self-defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history] Reference

But this ebbtide of inner life was not regular and incessant, but rather after the fashion of waves which retreat surely indeed, but returning again and again, seem for moments to regain almost more than their past altitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference

A seafarin 'man, that 's dyin' to home, will allers die on the ebbtide?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eli First published in the "Century Magazine"] Reference

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