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

The sweet, sad cuckoo makes the air resound With his two notes with springtide languor filled; And the tall pines, by eddying breezes thrilled, Tremble, as ocean echoes in a shell.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

As there is now in the earth, so there is always in human souls a springtide ready to burst forth into beautiful living.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart