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 hear no caterwauliug, but the river-god of Arno ripples soft songs in the summertide to the lilies that bend above him.

From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail

To him they were but the ephemera of the long summertide of jurisprudence.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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

They were merely drifting—as youth usually drifts—with the sweet summertide.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston