His hair was dark with sweat and his fingers cramped, resisting the oncoming tides.

The flock slowed and circled to meet the oncoming black tide.

Swiftly the oncoming tide was smoothing them away.

Strahorn "sensed the oncoming tide of settlers and capital" and decided to write a handbook on Wyoming.

A small jetty shouldered the oncoming tide.

In preparation for the oncoming tide, the engineering platoon had been busy little groundhogs.

And it was unrecognized by the oncoming tide.

Hurting the plumed warriors from him, Ronin at last made Moichi's side and, together, back to back, they fought the oncoming tide.

First tiny obstacles overcome, the advance rolled ahead like the oncoming tide.

I saw theNightside fall, its great buildings crashing down, crumbling like sand castles in the path of an oncoming tide.