| 1. | We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The ebb has made a good while our stores should be uncovered. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 3. | Flow on, river flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tid. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | And that men now call the ebb tide.. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | Prompted you in the ebb of your estat. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb betwee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | miles long, while the flow and ebb only occu. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 10. | Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 11. | For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 12. | In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came becomes diffused through time and space like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |