Sentence examples for over the tides from inspiring English sources

As the moon recedes, it will, of course, have less power over the tides, and they will grow weaker.

In past civilizations the Moon was regarded as a deity, its dominion dramatically manifested in its rhythmic control over the tides and the cycle of female fertility.

But in the mechanics of the universe nearness counts for more than distant mass, and when all the mathematical calculations have been made, we find that the moon's power over the tides is more than twice that of the sun.

That the sun, whose mass is twenty-seven million times as great as the moon's, should have less influence over the tides than the earth's small satellite is at first surprising.

Philosophers Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced insanity in susceptible individuals, believing that the brain, which is mostly water, must be affected by the Moon and its power over the tides, but the Moon's gravity is too slight to affect any single person.

And while its costly, multifront legal war is far from over, if the tide doesn't turn in its favor soon, Rambus could face a real crisis.

You could be sucked over by the tide.

A win over the Tide means LSU's early-October loss to Florida would be just a distant memory.

From the trees behind, a raven swoops down near where I'm hunching over the tide pools.

It captures him at 2, adorably warbling (and, yes, yodeling) his way through an old gospel tune, "Row Us Over the Tide".

When you look above shopfronts and see, over the tide of fibreglass, a run of unaltered 19th-century windows, that sense of the proximity of the past is also a measure of its painful distance.