Ah yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me, Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.
Up here in the cotton country, however, the river was more docile; there were no tides to come up and destroy the banks, and with the exception of freshets the habits of the stream were orderly.
But when Carrington and Keith landed there the square tower still stood in its gray old age at the very edge of the ocean, so that high tides swept the step of the keeper's house.
And some to happy homes repair, Where children, pressing cheek to cheek, These struggling tides of life that seem With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness they cannot speak.
These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
The tides of a lavish commerce scattered abroad the faculties of the people, and swept back upon their life alien fashions and tempers, to subdue which there was neither native strength nor definiteness of national purpose.
History, that hitherto had been but a series of angry pools, became as the ocean swaying in tides to one almighty impulse.
On February 25 there occurred one of those very high tides that come perhaps once in a generation.
The spring tides fill it, but during the neap tides the salt water is kept stagnant behind the sea-banks, making a small lagoon.
The spring tidesseldom rise above four or five feet, but high enough to flow over the low ground in front of the houses, making the flat a kind of bog, which vents out a loathsome savour.
Thus there are two waves always following the moon, and hence the two hightides in the twenty-four hours.
Tides attain various elevations in different parts of the world, partly owing to local influences.
Up some gulfs and estuaries the tides sweep with the violence of a torrent, and any one caught by them on the shore would be overtaken and drowned before he could gain the dry land.
The water torrents and thaws of summer unite with the tides in disengaging the ice-belt from the coast; but it is not uncommon for large bergs to drive against it and carry away the growths of many years.
Besides, as you go farther south, the tidesare feebler, and cease to add variety and grandeur to the shore.
The first is based upon the undoubted fact that the tides tend to retard the rate of the earth's rotation upon its axis.
That this must be so is obvious, if one considers, roughly, that the tides result from the pull which the sun and the moon exert upon the sea, causing it to act as a sort of break upon the rotating solid earth.
The shorter air-line route was across the sea ice, now fast decaying under the summer sun, with the certainty of many air-holes and possible pitfalls where tides and pressure, sun and currents had broken and wasted the winter floe.
In this district the tides and currents keep open the inland water-ways, so that seals are plentiful and easily taken, thus making it an Inuit paradise.
The motion of the tides is extremely plain in this arm of the sea, and even at Quebec, which projects more into the country, the waters rise several feet.
At the bottom of this bay is the Straits of Magellan, which is the longest in the world, and where the tides flow extremely high.
This is the reason that in open seas, remote from land, the tides are only felt by the general motion of the waters from east to west.
The motion of the tides is more rapid in the Red Sea than in the Persian Gulph, because the Red Sea is near three times longer and quite as narrow.
They also said the tides wore it away underneath about as fast as the rain and sun wasted the surface.
The tides and wind usually break up the very thin ice on the river, and if there is any open water near, the ducks will stay in it.
Or the gauntlets on the wall Keep evil from its onward course as the great tides rise and fall?
For an hour there were steady tides of men all streaming slowly up those narrow communication ways, cut through the chalk to get into the light also, where death was in ambush for many of them somewhere in the shadows of that dawn.
During high tides they rest on the high, sandy beaches in the large flocks of other small waders.
During several days previous redbreast had been flying, but the tides were not suitable, and it was useless to try for them.
When offshore winds caused low tides and extensive mud flats, it was less numerous; when the water was high, numbers were seen flying over the bay.
When resting on the high beaches between tides they stand quietly in close groups, all facing the wind; their grey plumage renders them quite inconspicuous at such times.
When we have caulked some seams she will not leak much, and if it does not blow again, she will lie here until the tides get high.
On a flat, open coast, the tides do not rise much, but there was a difference of some feet in the level, and at low ebb the boat would be nearly dry.
Then ye dinna get fish in deep water; they seek their meat in the channels and the tides that run across the sands.
In two or three tides the surf would break her up.
To get to sea she must wait for the big tides at the new moon, and then perhaps one must land all heavy gear and ballast and put the stuff on board again when she reached the anchorage.
Beneath all the moving tides of Christian thought there lie still depths that supply them all, and a centre of equilibrium around which they sweep.
Blessed be God that so much manliness has been lived out, and stands there yet, a lasting monument to mark how high the tides of divine life have risen in the world of man!
The ensuing set of spring-tides were now coming to hand, and, at 3 P.
These observations on the tides of the Forth apply equally to the Firth and River of Tay, and indeed to all the tributary streams and arms of the sea which communicate with the German Ocean, according to their local situations and magnitudes.
Including the low-water periods of morning and evening tides the whole had six hours’ and a quarter’s work to-day, when ten stones were laid.
Sidenote: Tidesof the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.
The tidesat the Bell Rock, are observed to follow the same laws as on the opposite shores of the Firth of Forth.
And the unvaliant courage, the weak bravery, of this indulged and wayward young lady had no strength wherewith to resist the surging tides of adversity.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, the tidesof commerce flowed free, unvexed by a single custom-house.
But in default of any such happy, unlikely conjuncture of the right men in the right place, it is the deep and wide tides of public opinion that largely shape events.
He told how he had sat in the wings, waiting his turn, and heard the tides of laughter gather and roll forward and break against the footlights, time and time again, and how he had believed his colleague to be glorying in that triumph.
The railways from Reedham to Yarmouth and Lowestoft were flooded, owing to the high tides in the rivers.
There all day long you could hear the sound Of the caulking iron, the ship's bronze bell, And the clank of the capstan going round As the great tides rose and fell.
There at their infinite business Of measuring time forever, Murmuring songs of the sea, The great tides come and go.
They are as the promontories and capes of the world's land perimeter to the tides of the ocean.
For many centuries subsequent to that expedition the rise of the Parthian power absolutely cut off these old-world trade communications and set the restless tides of human emigration into new channels.
In the passage we sailed over a sea called the Plaats, an exceeding dangerous water, by reason of two contrary tides which meet there very impetuously.
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