Example Sentences

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Far o'er the unebbing sea thou shalt adore The eastern star, and—may thy end be peace.

From Count Julian by Landor, Walter Savage

O, glorious laurel! since for one sole leaf Of thine imaginary deathless tree, Of blood and tears must flow the unebbing sea.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

By the hillside of Calvary we beheld thy blood,       Thy bloodred tears, As a mother's in bitterness, an unebbing flood,       Years upon years.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Peace like the river's gentle flow, Peace like the morning's silent glow, From day to day, in love supplied, An endless and unebbing tide.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James