The country's confidence in most things seems to be on the ebb.

By the time we reached the river's edge, I could see that the tide was on the ebb.

In these parts the tide of civilization was on the ebb.

I knew the tide would be on the ebb.

The tide was on the ebb; the corpses would be carried out to sea.

The tide was on the ebb which was not ideal.

The tide was on the ebb and the downstream current was very strong.

Was I a ship of any size, that would be the safest place to anchor, when the tide is on the ebb.

The tide was on the ebb so the current would carry me well downstream from the bridge before I landed.

I think this same memo is on the EBB several times.

He said placidly, "It won't come any higher; the tide's on the ebb."

It is on the ebb now, and with the rising breeze behind it we shall have seas of quite a different kind.

Said dad, "the tide is on the ebb.

By the beginning of June, enemy resistance at Okinawa was on the ebb, both in the air and on the ground.

18 Private medicine in the Soviet Union is on the ebb, after becoming a booming business with regulations passed in 1987.

A wicked surf and a worse undertow, though the tide was on the ebb.' '

It was powered by flood tidal water which then drove a water wheel when the tide was on the ebb.

Ford has been on the ebb for the last year or two, and observers are wondering when the company will reach low tide and begin its recovery.

The tide was on the ebb before they had finished and only the lightening of the load had enabled thePawatuck to leave without grounding herself.

Toby, Please post these ROFR's on the EBB.

Waves still crash against the headland rocks hard enough to splatter the lighthouse with foam, but the tide is on the ebb, now, and things are better than they were.

The tide was on the ebb and if she remained wliere she was tor even as little as lialf an hour, she would be doomed to die where she lay.

The tide was on the ebb, but not yet so low as to expose the long, slender tongue of sand that stretched out like a reaching hand and wrist towards the coast of Anglesey.

As Western troops engage in warfare in the name of freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a prominent new report reveals worldwide democracy to be on the ebb, analysts ponder where to go from here.

He thought that the tide was on the ebb but it still sounded very close, thudding against the rocky beach hi great chords of sound, a bass accompaniment to the high, sweet counterpoint of the distant violins.