That is shown very well by a simple little tidemark.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The startling and magical power of single verses, ineffaceable and ineradicable from the memory on which they have once impressed themselves, the consciousness in which they have once struck root, which distinguishes and denotes the peculiar style of Cyril Tourneur's tragic poetry, rises to its highest tidemark in this part of the play.
"The Age of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
163. Much the largest proportion of the lands so reclaimed, though for the most part lying above low-water tidemark, are at a lower level than the Lincolnshire fens, and more subject to inundation from the irruptions of the sea.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh