falling tide

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See ebb tide.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
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Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?
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It will be no more monotonous than having one's seventh birthday or falling in love for the first time.
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His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
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For who, while tears are falling, will pause to handle the wreaths, and find whether they are genuine?
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The falling dew, and the howling wind raised him not from that bed of lonely despair.
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During his mild régime the insurrection increased rapidly, and in one encounter he himself was very near falling a prisoner.
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