The sound of the bell could be heard clearly enough now-the uncertain, hesitating clang of a bell-buoy rocked in the tideway-with its melancholy note of warning.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
Cornish told her, hurriedly, what had happened twelve hours ago on the bank of the Queen's Canal; and the thought of the misspent, crooked life that had ended in the black waters of that sluggish tideway made them all silent for a while.
"Roden's Corner"
Henry Seton Merriman
Almost all were more or less "sulky" as soon as they felt the strong tideway, and the huge Ironsides lay a helpless, useless log, half an hour after going into action.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence