inflowing tide

I think, sometimes, that this Spiritualism advances upon the world of mind as the inflowing tide of ocean floods the shore.

In the channel where the boat floated, the current of the river and the inflowing tide began to battle.

The inflowing tide had lifted their boat and borne it further up on the sands.

Miss Owen had dealt diligently, and with much shrewdness, with the ever-inflowing tide of letters.

There was no use to try to sweep back the inevitable; it was attempting to stay the inflowing tide with a broom.