He put one hand against the wall, fear welling up inside him in a bleak, black tide.

A black, hot tide washed over him for a second, so that he could not see.

The river bank drew further away, but still they came, a skimming black tide of them.

As if in answer, the black tide rolled down the southern side of the second ridge.

Now he could rest and allow the black tide to cover him.

It will be a black tide that turns back the democratic wave everywhere, including in Iraq.

They moved in slowly from all sides like a creeping black tide, taking their time.

They were all around him in a swarming black tide.

He could feel its influence pumping through him like a bristling, black tide.

They had only stemmed the first onslaught of the black tide.