summertide

Example Sentences

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Among its many shortcomings, the piña colada, like all the silliest summertide mixed drinks, fails to gratify an honest thirst.

From Slate • May 22, 2015

The forest was dark, not a leaf was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

It was high summertide, and Abbot Hans' garden was so full of flowers that the eyes were fairly dazzled by the blues, reds, and yellows, as one looked into it.

From Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls by Smith, Elva S.

To him they were but the ephemera of the long summertide of jurisprudence.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

They were merely drifting—as youth usually drifts—with the sweet summertide.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston