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  • We travelled unmolested along the beach for upwards of twelve miles, when we halted for the evening on a small point of clear land, which at high water was an island.

  • At the end of it was an opening safe for boats, (and probably for small craft at high water), into an extensive lake.

  • It appears to be high water at the full and change at about forty minutes after nine.

  • Our officers observed that grass and other plants grew on the beach close to high water-mark, which is always a sure sign of pacific anchorage, and an undeniable proof that there never is a great surf on the shore.

  • He also observed the time of high water, on the full and change days, to be about 5h 45m; and the tide to rise and fall three feet.

  • The small creek before it affords convenient landing for boats at all times of the tide; which here, as well as at the other islands, rises about four or five feet, and is high water on the full and change days about seven o'clock.

  • When the boats returned, Mr Cooper informed me, that they had landed on the beach which is at the head of the bay, near a fine river, or stream of fresh water, so large and deep that they judged boats might enter it at high water.

  • By measurement, the river above is 870 feet wide, immediately contracted at the fall in the form of a lock, by jutting piles of scoriaceous basalt, over which the foaming river must present a grand appearance at the time of high water.

  • Between the successive basins, the dividing grounds are usually very slight; and it is probable that in the seasons of high water, many of these basins are in communication.

  • Yes, sir; there's going to be a heavy gale from the southward and westward, and it will be high water at about three.

  • That won't give much time for the sea to get up, but I am sure she'll spout to-day even before the top of high water.

  • Yes; the exact rise of a neap tide from dead low water to the top of high water.

  • If you wished to see another, and not stay in its black, chill maw for four hours, you must go on the top of high water, and stay no more than a good hour.

  • The Royal Arch Fall in time of high water is a magnificent object, forming a broad ornamental sheet in front of the arches.

  • Under these conditions, the time of high water eastward of Selsey Bill as far as Dover is almost the same at all points, though somewhat earlier at the east than at the west of this stretch of coast.

  • But, of course, the mine-sweepers that have been recently employed are of very shallow draught, and pass safely over most of the mines, especially at high water.

  • No unnecessary risks are taken; the preliminary exploration at low water can be done thoroughly, and the mine-sweepers can do their part at high water.

  • On the 10th I left the bar of Surat, and came to Swally roads, where I anchored in eight fathoms at high water.

  • It did not become fair at the hour of high water, when alone heavy ships could cross the bar, until the morning of the 6th.

  • High tide, or high water, the two highest levels of the day.

  • When these learned the draught of the heavier French ships, they declared that it was impossible to take them in; that there was on the bar only twenty-three feet at high water.

  • It must be done at the present stage of high water, else we'll have to delay dredging it until fall.

  • The three contracts in central Illinois, which we have just inspected, have shown deplorable results from the high water.

  • A flat of coral-rock, covered at high water.

  • A low projecting ledge of brecciated coral-rock washed by the waves at high water.

  • Passages between the islets on the reef, through which boats can pass at high water, must not be confounded with ship-channels, by which the annular reef itself is breached.

  • The great Surf that always will be upon the Shore when the wind blows hard from the Southward makes Wooding and Watering tedious, notwithstanding there are great plenty of both close to high water Mark.

  • It is high water in this Bay at full and change of the Moon about 8 o'clock, and the tide at these times rises and falls upon a perpendicular 6 or 8 feet.

  • At the New and full Moon it is high Water at that time about 8 o'clock, when the Land and Sea breezes are regular, but when they are not the Course of Tides are alter'd.

  • I found the Water good and the Place pretty Convenient, and plenty of Wood close to high Water Mark, and the Natives to all appearance not only very friendly but ready to Traffick with us for what little they had.

  • The wet season had now set in; the lowlands and islands would soon become flooded daily at high water, and the difficulty of obtaining fresh provisions would increase.

  • The residents told us that the western channel becomes nearly dry in the middle of the fine season, but that at high water, in April and May, the river rises to the level of the house floors.

  • Many streams that intersect the different routes across our continent are broad and shallow, and flow over beds of quicksand, which, in seasons of high water, become boggy and unstable, and are then exceedingly difficult of crossing.

  • Good ford except in high water, when the right-hand road on the north bank of the creek is generally traveled.

  • This road leaves the Arkansas River at Fort Smith, to which point steamers run during the seasons of high water in the winter and spring.

  • During seasons of high water, men, in traversing the plains, often encounter rivers which rise above a fording stage, and remain in that condition for many days, and to await the falling of the water might involve a great loss of time.

  • Water bitter when the creek is down, but tolerable in high water.

  • This was another of the places where the river was said to "eat up" whole pine trees at high water, and it was not hard to believe.

  • Boyd had given his name to a rapid at the head of Revelstoke Canyon--drowned while trying to line by at high water, Blackmore said--and the present owner was an American Civil War Pensioner named Wilcox.

  • It's covered at high water, and just enough of a pitch to give the youngsters a little excitement in dropping over.

  • On cross-questioning, he admitted that this was at high water, and that there was nothing like so much "suck" in the whirlpools at the present stage.

  • Whatever may be the condition of the falls at Kaukauna in high water, it is certain that at this stage a canoe would be dashed to splinters quite early in the attempt to scale them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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