"Tideless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trifling payment. I once got into one by mistake, and was almost sickened by the smell of tobacco, spirits, dirty fustian, and old leather, which assailed my olfactory organs. Leaving Erie, beyond which the lake of the same name stretched to the distant horizon, blue and calm like a tideless sea, we entered the huge forests on the south shore, through which we passed, I suppose, ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird
... the year, the plains are barren, the shores still and tideless, the sky is anything but variegated, being for ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
... ruined church near the village, which occupies the site according to tradition) of an ancient temple of Venus; and if Venus ever revisits her desecrated shrines she must sometimes pause a moment in that sunny stillness and listen to the murmur of the tideless sea at the base of the narrow promontory. If Venus sometimes comes there Apollo surely does as much; for close to the temple is a gateway surmounted by an inscription in Italian and English, which admits ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... douce folk, that live by rule, Grave, tideless-blooded, calm and cool, Compar'd wi' you—O fool! fool! fool! How much unlike! Your hearts are just a standing ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... folk that live by rule, Grave, tideless-blooded, calm an' cool, Compar'd wi' you—O fool! fool! fool! How much unlike! Your hearts are just a standing pool, Your lives a ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... back into the envelope. Alas, how many and many a year had gone, long, monotonous, colourless years, since she had seen that bright southern world which she was now urged to revisit. In fancy she saw it again to-day, the tideless sea of deepest sapphire blue, the little wavelets breaking on a yellow beach, the white triangular sails, the woods full of asphodel and great purple and white lilies, the atmosphere steeped in warmth and light and perfume, the glare of white houses in the ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... conveyed to my friend. Deep-sea sand on a dead woman's pillow! What could be more incongruous? What possible connection could there be between this sordid crime in the east of London and the deep bed of the "tideless sea"? ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... ye douce folk that live by rule, Grave, tideless-blooded, calm an'cool, Compar'd wi' you—O fool! fool! fool! How much unlike! Your hearts are just a standing pool, Your ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... sand and breathing the clean cloudless sea-air, instead of the scirocco stuff we had left, alternately simmering and shivering in Rome. By the way, how little the sea gives to Rome (except at the Aventine corner sometimes by a violent libeccio), and how one feels the futility of this tideless Mediterranean, unable to purify or renovate even a few yards of the inland! Think of the estuaries of the North! of the cleansing vivifying tides and draughts which the ocean thrusts into the ...
— The Spirit of Rome • Vernon Lee |
