retiring tide

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Once more anchored as near the beach as the retiring tide would allow, Grimes was too much engaged with his prize to notice that "Dummy" took another route to the farm.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

Suddenly, a crowd of pipy fragrance involves the room: these �rial forms cease to be visible; and broken sounds, like the retiring tide beneath Dover cliff, die away356 into utter silence.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Sometimes he moved slowly on, his eyes fixed on the sand which the retiring tide had left a firm and even footing.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various

The extensive marshes left dry by the retiring tide in estuaries and river mouths.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

If the listener was a new arrival, or a gobe mouche, they would explain that the tigers in the Soonderbunds often get carried out to sea by the retiring tide.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James