summertide

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Among its many shortcomings, the piña colada, like all the silliest summertide mixed drinks, fails to gratify an honest thirst.

From Slate • May 22, 2015

I scarce could hear The shrill larks singing in the green meadows, 'Twas summertide, and, budding far and near, The hedges thick with rose.

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. by De la Mare, Walter

The forest was dark, not a leaf was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

At high summertide, the Gothic camp was pitched before Rome, and the siege anticipated for so many months had at length begun.

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

Nor was the sea less lovely, with the silvery sheen of early summertide on its placid bosom, and the white wings of many boats glistening in the sun.

From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)