The ebbing tide had left a foot or two of narrow shingle between the sea and the wall.
It was easy for him--a good swimmer--to reach a point far enough out in the channel for the ebbing tides to carry him past that barrier of fog into the open and obliterating ocean.
On the least suspicion they would throw me into the lake, and if I ever got through the tunnel, it would only be as a corpse carried out by the ebbing tide.
At ten o'clock the Ebba was still rocking lazily at anchor, her stem up stream and her cable tautened by the rapidly ebbing tide.
It was a small buoy that was rocked by the ripple of the ebbing tide.
Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the sweeping batteries of the mainland on our left are soon passed, and by four o'clock the rapid current of the ebbing tide has carried us through the harbor mouth.
One thing alone was certain; the tide was ebbing beneath us, and the waves were relaxing in their violence.
And with ebbing terror it was as if the full misery of her heart was revealed.
She saw herself one of the ebbing and flowing crowd, watching the world from her place at the breakfast table in a great hotel, sweeping through the perfumed warmth and brightness of a theater lobby to her carriage.
There is constant din and bustle; And the weary shopman standeth Day to day in close confinement; And the pallid seamstress sitteth For a long and tedious twelve hours Stitching, while her life is ebbing In a rapid current from her.
But day and night he saw her further wane, Her life-stream ebbing every hour away; Until at last he saw her wane and die, Beheld her sink into the arms of death.
Now the dog was a hound of the Danish breed, Staunch to love and strong at need: He had dragged his master safe to shore When the tide was ebbing at Elsinore.
Men and books make me painfully aware of my littleness and defects, but here on the shore in silence complete save for the music of the ebbing sea, they vanish.
The lord of the spirits, of the elves who chased the ebbing Neptune, he who had given fire to the dread rattling thunder, broke his staff and drowned his book and went back to his lonely palace.
Thus “working some little effect besides its own motion” of soberly ebbing and flowing.
His life was rapidly ebbing away, and no time was to be lost; for though he rallied a little after the arrival of Henrich and Roger, it was evident that his time on earth could only be counted by hours.
Rodolph knew that it was so; but no danger could then have compelled him to leave his dying friend-- the friend whose life was now ebbing away as a sacrifice for his own.
Life was fast ebbing away; and, in a few moments afterwards, they bent in dumb horror and amazement, over a mangled corpse.
She hung over our dear lady as if she would have poured her own spirit into her to raise the still ebbing pulses.
There was silence for a little while afterwards, and their eyes were all turned where Honor lay, the little life ebbing away like the tide of the ocean.
They would come later; but the time for them was not now, when little Honour's life was ebbing away.
Then we thank God for all His goodness in protecting and sparing us, and on we go, administering to the wounded and those whose life is fast ebbing away, and in a few words get the assurance that they hear the Saviour's welcome voice.
The Middlesex Regiment of infantry arrived at this point and found three men wounded, covered with blood from horses and men, but working their one gun with their ebbing strength.
Life seemed fast ebbing in the struggle; his eyes rolled, till presently he closed them as if to shut out a blinding light; his breathing was a hoarse and laboured sobbing.
The tide was ebbing when we arrived at the Point, and anchoring our vessel, we sought to reach the shore in its little skiff--a feat of no small difficulty on account of the shallowness of the water.
Like the ebbing and flowing of the tide, the contending armies alternately advanced and retreated, and for more than three hours the conflict was severe and the result doubtful.
He resolved to storm the fort at all hazards, and only waited for the ebbing of the tide, and the deep first slumber of the garrison, to move toward the fortress.
I waited nearly an hour for the ebbing tide to leave the Point bare, before making my sketch.
Life's ebbing stream on either side / Shows at each turn some mould'ring hope or joy, / The man seems following still the funeral of the boy.
For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore.
All those treasures would be in the bag at full tide, but at the ebbing of the tide it would be empty.
The host race over the Plain of Sports; it is beautiful and not weak their game is; death or the ebbing of the tide will not come to them in the Many-Coloured Land.
And Noah, the helmsman of the ark, made trial whether the seafloods yet were ebbing under heaven.
The sea is cleft asunder; the ebbing waters spewed up sand.
Ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune"; also Arc.
Ebbing men, that is, men whose fortunes are at a low ebb.
