Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebbtides
Literary usage of Ebbtides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Massachusetts Teacher (1851)
"This paraphrase is faulty intentionally, in the words "ebbtides," (compound)
"bells," (simple); "horses," (com. gend.) "floods," (neut. gend. ..."
2. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from by William Edward Parry (1824)
"... a great deal of ground, the ebbtides appearing to obstruct us very little.
Indeed, from the very entrance of Hudson's Strait, but more especially to the ..."
3. The Natural Conditions of Existence as They Affect Animal Life by Carl Semper (1883)
"... inferred from the fact that at low ebbtides the water in the lagoon stands at
no higher a level than it does outside the atoll; but this could not occur ..."
4. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"... water passes over the Chicoutimi shoals (at a very rapid rate during ebbtides),
and falling suddenly into deep water seems to strike downward at once, ..."
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