Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidewave
Literary usage of Tidewave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology as a Science, Applied to the Reclamation of Land from the Sea, the by John Rooke (1840)
"So far St. Abb's Head, Berwick, Fenwick, and Beadnell are observed to lie on the
bearings of a tidewave, flowing southward from the Frith-of-Forth. ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1839)
"The projection of this isle, however, forcing the tidewave southward, causes it
to run northward, again, with great force, and scour out the Bay of Weymouth ..."
3. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"Now to what does all this amount 1 Simply a rather confused and fragmentary
narrative of one mundane tidewave of empire and civilisation, its western sweep ..."
4. The Native Races of South Africa: A History of the Intrusion of the by George William Stow (1905)
"... it is certainly a most remarkable coincidence that this early tidewave of
human migration to the east and south carried with it the same artistic tastes ..."
5. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1859)
"... near approach of tho comet of 1680 to the earth, about the Biblical time
ascribed to the deluge, Whis- ton attributed that overwhelming tidewave. ..."
6. Church and State: Or, National Religion and Church Establishments by Thomas Rawson Birks (1869)
"The assault on the Irish Church is simply the crest of the immense tidewave of
unbelief, which is sweeping over Christendom at the present hour. ..."
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