It was the bottom of a low spring tide, and there's rocks off the end of the bay that's uncovered at the ebb of the springs.
To strike out through the slimy weeds which lie close along the surface at the ebb point of a spring tide, to clamber on low rocks, half awash for an hoar or two at midnight, these are things which I would not willingly do.
Above the steamer lay a large Norwegian barque waiting for her pilot to take her down on the ebb tide.
Toward five o'clock the water again retired, very slowly as before, not reaching its lowest ebb until six.
Afterward the oscillation of the water was less considerable, but it had not wholly ceased until August 17th, and only on the 18th did the regular ebb and flow of the tide recommence.
But during the 14th there were occasional renewals of the irregular motion, and several days elapsed before the regular ebb and flow of the sea were resumed.
Afterward great waves came rolling in at intervals of about twenty minutes, and several days elapsed before the sea resumed its ordinary ebb and flow.
I mean, that the blood flows more rapidly, and the powers of nature are more stimulated, at the flood and full, than at the ebb and neap, when a reaction takes place in proportion to the previous acceleration.
I believe that there is an ebb and flow of power in our internal mechanism, corresponding to the phases of the moon.
Dr Mead has observed, that of those who are at the point of death, nine out of ten quit this world at the ebb of the tide.
These strong men lend themselves willingly, as do their kin over the sea, to the ebb and flow of powerful contrary feelings, and rush body and soul from the extreme of joy to the acme of sorrow.
But the fatal hour is at hand, the era of the Crusades is over; an irresistible ebb has set in; Christendom draws back in its turn.
At the first word she puts to sea; but storms arise, then follows a dead calm; Tristan feels life ebb from him with hope.
Now to that timeless hour Time's footsteps run To rear our throne, whose foot shall never know The chafe of life's eternal ebb and flow.
V Hard by the swift-winged star, the moth-like moon Sheds golden dust on waves of day that ebb Into the deep beyond life's wan lagoon.
The reign of Robertson was simply coincident with the very lowest spiritual ebb in the country, to which his own long regime had in no slight degree contributed.
The tide would be rising for an hour and a half, and the ebb current being already weakened, it would be easy for the brig to advance.
They must now avail themselves of theebb to take the wood to the mouth.
The sailor then thought that they could utilize this ebb and flow for the transport of heavy objects.
The ebb has made a good while; our stores should be uncovered.
We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
If you consent to give up this girl I will go on the sands; I will defile my fingers; I will secure the stolen amulet at the ebb of the tide, should the corpse become exposed.
It is fever,' thought I; 'I am going to be ill; and what is there to do in the morning at the ebb of the tide before Winifred can go upon the sands?
But, mother, you went as you promised to the sands in Church Cove, and you waited for the ebb of the tide?
Here is a tide: the flood sets west and the ebb east; but the latter is very faint and but of small continuance.
There is but little tide; the flood setting north and the ebbto the southward.
Here we found the flood setting east by north, and the ebb west by south.
The ebb (with which I was now carried) sets very strong and runs 8 or 9 hours.
But after this time I had pretty much of them; and found at present the flood set to the eastward, and the ebb to the westward.
This may have been so, for, should it belong to the class of variable stars, there would be a periodic ebb and flow of its light, by which its fluctuating brilliance could be explained.
Besides affording us light by night, the Moon is the principal cause of the ebb and flow of the tide--a phenomenon of much importance to navigators.
He notified the extent of their rise and fall at different periods, and investigated other phenomena associated with their ebb and flow.
It has been suggested that by confining this channel with training walls constructed along the Burbo Bank and the Crosby shore the power of the ebb tide would be increased.
