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.
1The flood tide seldom exceeds one mile and three quarters per hour.
2Through all my mishaps I had reached the flood tide of prosperity.
3A peculiar opportunity comes with the flood tide of new parental love.
4Even now at flood tide it is a splendid and imposing river.
5But who can see this in the sharp flood tide of despair?
6Unfortunately, he takes it at flood tide, which immediately begins to ebb.
7P.M. At 4 weighed and made sail with the flood tide.
8The rich, emotional voice ceased suddenly like the flood tide of Northern seas.
9When he had mustered his host, then came the flood tide.
10The flood tide of religious emotionalism ebbed but to flow in other channels?
11Summer was at flood tide, and the air was pungent and the leaves shining.
12The flood tide at this anchorage came from the north-east, one mile per hour.
13It was a boisterous day, half a gale of wind against the flood tide.
14The river, too, was presently brimming with the flood tide.
15A flood tide of glory swept over his whole being.
16Didn't you hear what the fisherman said, too, that it was a flood tide?