Tide

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tide:

    “As the tide crept, the land
    burned with a lizard-blue
    where the dark sea met the sand.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The tide rises, the tide falls,
    The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
    Along the sea-sands damp and brown
    The traveler hastens toward the town,
    And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
    While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
    Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
    Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)