equatorial tide

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a semimonthly tide that appears when the moon is over the equator.

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They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.
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The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.
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We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.
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