springtide
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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
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 Katharine Lee Bates
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
And to the right a lattice make, A passage for the day, Where the swallow, bringing springtide, May dart about and play, And the nightingale, sweet singer, Tell the happy month of May.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco