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
At length the timid beauties of April were merged into the exuberance of the leaf and flower of May, and Nature was resplendent in the full glory of the springtide.
From Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins by Lucy Foster Madison
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
He longed for love—not for the ordinary springtide passion experienced by ninety-nine men out of a hundred; nor for the ordinary “living-prosaically-ever-after” which is the ultimate sequel to such affairs.
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey