springtide

Example Sentences

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A retractable roof opens up to the springtide; in summer and winter, it unfurls into a glass-paneled cathedral ceiling that alternately cocoons air-conditioned coolness or furnace-rendered warmth.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2017

This autumn season is something more akin to late springtide in the brilliant career of Edna O’Brien, described by her American peer Philip Roth as the greatest living woman writing in English.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2015

First immersion and I�m away from the North Pacific and all of its frigid reverences, springtide gales, redwoods, white sharks and hypothermia.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the springtide days, the crow turns aside from theft and robbery to the softer game of love, whereunto you hear the harsh voice attuned in cluttering notes.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

On our springtide walks, his head, as he trotted in front, would suddenly be twitched to one side, as if we had jerked it by a rein.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee