However, the hawser parted without " Aster " s budging; and " Berberry " made several more unsuccessful attempts before the falling tide compelled her to abandon the effort.
22.
Two of the French frigates were obliged to cut their cables and run ashore in order to escape before the British were forced to withdraw by the falling tide.
23.
The French counter-attack repulsed the enemy back to the sea, and the landing troops were unable to retreat further since the falling tide had left the longboats high and dry.
24.
Fly fishing for bass from shore at Lobsterville Beach is a dusk and thereafter endeavor, and at Dogfish in particular, I have also had my best luck on the falling tide.
25.
The torrent of relatively warm brackish water, laden with forage fish and crabs, pouring into the ocean on the falling tides attracts striped bass and bluefish in late spring, summer and fall.
26.
The rise and fall of water in the tidal basin serves the dual purpose of providing a location to store water and being a scenic element that simulates a rising and falling tide.
27.
We were fishing the latter part of the falling tide at midday on our bluefish caper, but Coop said that he had been doing well with stripers on the rising tide, particularly at night.
28.
As a reminder to how close the slough was to saltwater, a seal briefly poked his head up near the far shore, stared me down, then swam around the next bend with the falling tide.
29.
He hung on grimly, coolly in the turbulent rising and falling tides for nearly four hours, and busted the biggest serve in tennis as a valedictory to win, 6-4, 6-7 ( 3-7 ), 6-3, 1-6, 8-6.
30.
Our trip was timed to catch the falling tide, when the seals would haul out of the water, full of flounder, and luxuriate on the sandbanks of the islands just east of the Meadowbrook State Parkway.
