The waves of the next high tide will not reach them, because for a time after the full of the moon each tide will halt its advance a little lower on the beach than the preceding one.
But Mr Sanders is still full of running, has a tide of enthusiastic support, and seems likely to take this to the convention too.
"The chief fault of the book," she writes, "is that it describes a descending curve; the life of a successful artist in the full tide of achievement is not so interesting as the life of a talented young girl 'fighting her way,' as we say.
A liberal Roman Catholic, he endowed Bonn with a university, limited the power of his own clergy, and opened the city to the full tide of the German literary renaissance associated with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and the young Goethe and Schiller.
The company's name, translated from the Portuguese as "new starting point", caught the full tide of the early fringe endeavour, with first-generation immigrant comedies (one of the best, and funniest, was Mustapha Matura's As Time Goes By, 1971), and outspoken adversarial political drama by Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths and Tunde Ikoli.
For a minute they watched a tide pool full of spiny creatures that sent up curls of sand in vanishing.
There were little trails that led out to this point, but the point at high tide was full of water.
I peered into little tide pools full of fish, and at the endless horizon on one side and the sandy coastline on the other.
The firm expects the full tide of defaults to roll in early in 2009.
It's not a nice place – full of female corpses and crimson tides of blood.
