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Meanings of flood tide in English

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

      The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.

            Usage of flood tide in English
            1
            The flood tide seldom exceeds one mile and three quarters per hour.
            Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
            2
            Through all my mishaps I had reached the flood tide of prosperity.
            Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
            3
            A peculiar opportunity comes with the flood tide of new parental love.
            The Unfolding Life / A Study of Development with Reference to Re...
            4
            Even now at flood tide it is a splendid and imposing river.
            The Naturalist on the Thames
            5
            But who can see this in the sharp flood tide of despair?
            Verner's Pride
            6
            Unfortunately, he takes it at flood tide, which immediately begins to ebb.
            The Puppet Crown
            7
            P.M. At 4 weighed and made sail with the flood tide.
            The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson / With the journal of her first ...
            8
            The rich, emotional voice ceased suddenly like the flood tide of Northern seas.
            Roads from Rome
            9
            When he had mustered his host, then came the flood tide.
            Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03
            10
            The flood tide of religious emotionalism ebbed but to flow in other channels?
            Beginnings of the American People
            11
            Summer was at flood tide, and the air was pungent and the leaves shining.
            Montlivet
            12
            The flood tide at this anchorage came from the north-east, one mile per hour.
            A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 / Undertaken for the purp...
            13
            It was a boisterous day, half a gale of wind against the flood tide.
            Notes on Life & Letters
            14
            The river, too, was presently brimming with the flood tide.
            The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
            15
            A flood tide of glory swept over his whole being.
            Lo, Michael!
            16
            Didn't you hear what the fisherman said, too, that it was a flood tide?
            Jeanne of the Marshes