Great West Wind Drift, setting squarely into the teeth of the easterly gale, kicked up a tideway sea that was monstrous. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XL] Reference
Silently, with none to heed and none to know, was enacted again in the gloom the play that is as old as the first ship upon tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
"There, there!" said Nellie, pointing out some dark objects that could be seen tumbling about in the tideway some distance off the starboard quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Hands went to the freeing of the sails, and the tiller swung round to bring the vessel out of the backwater beneath the cliff into the full run of the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
He doubled up like a jackknife, fell back against the gangway gate, which had not been properly fastened, and shot through it into the tideway, here very swift, and disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Meanwhile the victors stood like rocks in the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
I was beating windward across the steep waves of a tideway. From Wordnik.com. [A Padre in France] Reference
'Very little; but I should be sorry to be out of the tideway.'. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
When you try the stormy tideway in your zephyrs and your shorts. From Wordnik.com. [The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch] Reference
And thy ships lie in the tideway, and thy flocks along the moor. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Whistlers] Reference
But that might have occurred through want of careful tending in a tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
The place was a rocky point of land jutting forth into a reef-strewn tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsman] Reference
Then how are the fisheries in the estuary and just above tideway to be valued?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Natural History and Agriculture] Reference
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Enterprise management software provider BMC Software (www. tideway.com). From Wordnik.com. [theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News] Reference
Drift, setting squarely into the teeth of the easterly gale, kicked up a tideway sea that was monstrous. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
The Major, still waving his sword, was lifted by the crowd's pressure and swept along like a chip in a tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Troy] Reference
In 1Q 2009 Ukrainian broadband market was developing in the tideway of the tendencies typical for past 2 years. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
So without climbing out from under the high banks of the creek he splashed out into the tideway, and started back. From Wordnik.com. [A Thane of Wessex] Reference
Hushed though the voices were, each word fell distinct on her ear as the boats drew near and passed up the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Troy] Reference
Atlantic liberalism, except of getting itself swept up into ugly harbor bars, and troublesome shoals in the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
The race is rowed over a distance of just over four miles - 4 miles, 374 yards to be precise - in the Thames tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Europe String] Reference
He rolled forward majestically to the turn-table, and swung like a man-of-war in a tideway, till he picked up his track. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
One related to a matter which now belongs to naval archæology, -- "backing and filling in a tideway," by a ship under sail. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
It was just possible to make out the big ship as she weighed anchor and, rolling and plunging, moved slowly out into the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Windy Hill] Reference
'On the morning of the third day, the gale having abated, the anchor of the "Mary" was got home and she swung out into the tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Montezuma's Daughter] Reference
Slowly the boat came on, rolling tremendously on the curve of the breakers, between the broken water of the tideway and the spume of the surf. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
But this meant the loosening of myself with my own hand for ever from her who was my mentor and my glory, to gain whom I was in the very tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
He anchored in the neighbouring harbour until the wind was in the right quarter, and with some trepidation put his ships into the boiling tideway. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 6] Reference
Among the happiest results of the modern feeling about birds is the conversion of the whole of the Thames above the tideway into a "protected area.". From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
Many were caught at Isleworth and Kew, and finally they penetrated to the limit of the tideway at Teddington, and good baskets were made at Teddington. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
He was a gigantic creature, and Robin and he, slowly forging towards each other through the surrounding sea of faces, looked like two liners in a tideway. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference
Warrington, swaying precariously over the edge, held tight by the loin-cloth, depending on it as a yacht in a tideway would to three hundred pounds of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of the World] Reference
The general course of the Kennedy River runs in this line, and from the head of the tideway to the north-west coast the breadth of land does not exceed six miles. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference
There it stands, accordingly, full in the tideway; driven in, with hard taps, like some strong stake for the noose of a cable, the swirl of the current roundabout it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
The sound of the bell could be heard clearly enough now -- the uncertain, hesitating clang of a bell-buoy rocked in the tideway -- with its melancholy note of warning. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
You see, Mr. Geen, plovers don't shed their feathers hereabouts in the summer months; and a feather floating on a tideway doesn't, as a rule, keep moored to one place. From Wordnik.com. [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference
Unencumbered by luggage or plans, Mr Francis Beveridge stuck his hands deep in his pockets and strolled aimlessly enough out of the station into the tideway of the Euston Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic at Large] Reference
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