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

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 Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Be to us as the springtide that melts the ice, Arise!

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie