Lexicographical Neighbors of Floodtide
Literary usage of Floodtide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1903)
"Pius had risen to popularity on the floodtide of reaction against the anarchism and
... Leo was able for a while to ride upon the same floodtide ; but the ..."
2. Science and the Healing Art, Or A New Book on Old Facts by John Custis Darby (1880)
"The laws of constructive assimilation and of destructive metamorphosis are like
the tides— the ebbtide never begins to flow until the, floodtide ceases, ..."
3. Sophocles by Sophocles (1902)
"(M) For the anger of Zeus, it is heavy on those Whose tongue vaunts highly ; He
marked full well Clangour of golden array vainglorious— Marked floodtide of ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"But those who bought these books when prices were at floodtide will certainly
feel uneasy. In a set realized £560, the highest price we believe that the ..."
5. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"The rising floodtide of her agony, The billowing beauty of the Infinite, Borne
in, a miracle, upon the shallows Of their small, individual human lives. ..."
6. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"The floodtide sets in. The eyes tickle the Fox's belly, but cannot arouse her.
Again she is carried away, then lands, and taking hold of her eyes, ..."
7. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"The floodtide of fraternal strife rolled upward to his feet. And like the breakers
on the shore the thunderous clamors beat; The sad earth rocked and reeled ..."
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