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
All the same, he represents also a reaction which sees the humorous side of the lover's springtide longings, and views all things very much as they are, without illusion.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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 Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
When the knight heard this he said to the chaplain that within six months would he seek the sea for the springtide crossing, and thereto he plighted faith.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason