I followed the ebb.
The tide would be rising for an hour and a half, and the ebb current being already weakened, it would be easy for the brig to advance.
It took the whole day to reach the promontory, for the vessel on leaving port had only two hours of ebb tide and had therefore to make way for six hours against the flood.
For several hours, therefore, there would be a current, which it was well to profit by, for later the ebb would make it difficult to ascend the river.
The sailor then thought that they could utilize this ebb and flow for the transport of heavy objects.
But now the ebb is evidently making.
"I am at a low ebb with pupils.
"Medical knowledge is at a low ebb among us," said Mr.
By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.
The gut has a clock that regulates the daily ebb and flow of enzymes, the absorption of nutrients and the removal of waste.
, your energy will start to ebb, but you'll be in a great mood.
（6）Every ebb awaits an overwhelming flow.
" At last the elder boy replied,"Sir, you see the sun would soon rise and the tide will ebb away.
My spirits ebb, as they did during an April snowfall when I first came to Maine 15 years ago.
Known as the "ace of aces" for shooting down dozens of German enemy planes, Rickenbacker took command of the squadron soon after morale hit its lowest ebb.
Every ebb awaits an overwhelming flow.
i could not bend my proud humanity to kneel before the cold immensity, i,who had youth and love,i,who could know,—— they,——flotsam on the ethereal ebb and flow, dead things unmoved by immaterial fire of hope and anguish and divine desire.
My spirits ebb, as they did during an April snowfall when I first came to Maine 15 years ago.
The ebb had already run some time, and I had to wade through a long belt of swampy sand, where I sank several times above the ankle, before I came to the edge of the retreating water, and wading a little way in, with some strength and dexterity, set my coracle, keel downwards, on the surface.
The ebb has made a good while; our stores should be uncovered.
