Half Tide

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And it must be remembered that the cliff exhibits an intensifying feature which some of those are without — sheer perpendicularity from the half-tide level. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At low tide there were acres of mud with screeching gulls scavenging; and at high tide steamerfuls of tourists charging past - with or without thumping music - for a quick trip up through the half-tide lock at Richmond into deeper waters above. ❋ Francis, Dick (1999)

The boats put off about half-an-hour before midnight; but, owing to the darkness, and tide and half-tide, which must always make night attacks so uncertain on the coasts of the Channel, the divisions separated. ❋ Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (1993)

When they were perfect in the relatively simple technique that was necessary, a date was set for the operation when there would be half-tide in the entrance channel at one o'clock in the morning and no moon. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1955)

The river rose rapidly after half-tide, and it had reached full height by the time the fresh plugs were ready and the wire and short lines prepared. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

For the first twenty-five yards its progress was unhindered; then a half-tide ledge barred its way. ❋ Albert Walter Tolman (N/A)

Crew thought at first they'd reached safety, but they soon found it was only a half-tide ledge. ❋ Albert Walter Tolman (N/A)

And if you launch even your well-built ship at half-tide, what will it do but strike bottom, and stick there? ❋ Various (N/A)

It was at half-tide, and we experienced no difficulty in entering. ❋ Various (N/A)

The main deck was getting safer, and although she took the sea heavily now and then, she was no longer like a half-tide rock in a strong current. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

At half-tide on the following morning we crossed the bar, carrying no less than three and a half fathoms, and entered the beautiful river of Morotaba, which we ran up for the first fifteen miles under all sail, with a fresh, leading breeze. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

The timbers of the Golden Island opened with the crash, and she filled, and never lifted or thumped, but lay swept by each billow, like a rock at half-tide, immovable by reason of her heavy cargo. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

Then she rose, streaming like a half-tide rock, and drifted out towards the middle of the channel. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1939)

And as he crawled forward to try to lower sail, or get a rope's end on the boom, whichever would do, the sloop struck on a rock that stands awash at half-tide, a brown hummock of granite lifting out of the sea two hundred feet off the tip of Point Old. She struck with a shock that sent MacRae sprawling, arrested full in an eight-knot stride. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

She had a low, sharp bow and the old-fashioned turtle-back forward instead of the high, weatherly forecastle of the later destroyers, and in anything more than a moderate breeze or a little popple of a sea she was like a half-tide rock in a gale o 'wind. ❋ Unknown (1925)

One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone Jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom, in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais. ❋ Unknown (1917)

One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)

By such means Glen had the address to make his companions, in some measure, satisfied, or at least passive, with regard to their miserable prospects upon this half-tide rock in the middle of the ocean. ❋ Unknown (1912)

The following table gives the fall during each half-hour of the typical tides shown in Fig, 6 (see page 15), from which it will be seen that the maximum rate occurs at about half-tide, while very little movement takes place during the half-hour before and the half-hour after the turn of the tide: -- ❋ Henry C. Adams (1912)

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