An extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything.
1The influence of the French conqueror never extended beyond low-water mark.
2An allusion to the custom of hanging pirates at low-water mark.
3He always knew the precise moment, the outmost low-water mark, of a bargain.
4The fort at this post stands two hundred feet perpendicular above low-water mark.
5In October the Vicksburg gauge usually hovered not far above zero, a low-water mark.
6From yesterday's low-water mark it has now reached the highest level I have seen yet.
7Hanged at White Point, Charleston, in 1718, and buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
8The night was only needed to float the boat down as far as low-water mark.
9During this period the river varies from twenty-five to forty feet above the low-water mark.
10He recorded one spot where the high-water mark was 115 feet above the low-water mark.
11This construction would not be suitable below low-water mark.
12The tide of fortune having touched low-water mark, the usual gentle stage of improvement set in.
13Plenty more barely rise above the low-water mark.
14We had arrived at precisely the low-water mark, when the channel was at its most treacherous.
15Law and order stopped short at low-water mark.
16Buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
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