tidemark

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For 41 months now, businessmen have watched record after record crumble with computer speed until new economic tidemarks have become the rule rather than the exception.

From Time Magazine Archive

I went yesterday on an expedition to see the remains of a forest which exists between tidemarks at a place called Amroth, near here.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

It varies in size and colour between tidemarks, being sometimes long and ribbon-like, of a violet or purple hue; sometimes long and broad, whilst changing to a reddish purple, or yellow.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

The bergs in the neighbourhood were very large, several being over 200 ft. high, and some of them were firmly aground, showing tidemarks.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

What is a day or an hour or a lifetime Gauged by the ebb and the flow of the ages Shown in the tidemarks on crags prehistoric?

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.