The stream was fordable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Two miles down was a drift '(they call a fordable dip a drift in. From Wordnik.com. [The Red True Story Book] Reference
The Kolea Panee is of some width, but is fordable. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The only one not fordable in the above route, is the Karam. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
This stream is of some size, very violent and rapid, but fordable. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
As the river Bann was not fordable, and the bridge broken down, the. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Burnside sent some troops farther down the river, where it was fordable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"It took me a long time to find a fordable place," said Mark apologetically. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
At length the tide was out, -- so far, at least, that the stream was fordable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Montmorenci River, which was fordable at low tide, was a redoubt of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
The Darap is a considerable stream, but is fordable at the heads of the rapids. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Moral: 'Tis easier to watch and defend one bridge than many miles of fordable water. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The Helmand was fordable everywhere at that season, making it easy for Ayub to cut off. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
The Gumbur is a clear, good-sized stream, fordable about the rapids, bed narrow confined. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
No tributaries passed, the river fordable at rapids, but the road is not passable for guns. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The little river, that meanders through the scene of the action, is fordable in all places. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Is situated on the right bank of the Darap Panee, which is fordable at the heads of the rapids. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
To gain Chadderton's Hill, it became necessary to cross the Bronx, which was fordable at that place. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
The whole town of Batopilos went to gaze at the extraordinary sight as soon as the river was fordable. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
Below a place called Chatham, and four miles above Dalson's, is the third fordable branch of the Thames. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
So far from that being the case, I understand that, for weeks and months even, it is constantly fordable. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
On the sixth of November the Jacobite forces crossed the Tweed: that river was scarcely fordable; but the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The lake was so low, that there was a fordable stretch of its bottom between the mainland and this island. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
The river was quite fordable, but the streams were fairly deep, taking the horses some way above the girths. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
Scip having returned, and reported the stream fordable to the bridge, I said to him, pointing to the "notice:". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
They rode downstream, looking for a place to cross, and found a wide, stony, fordable crossing, then rode back. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
During this day they came to the little river Oka, but it was fordable, and they had no difficulty in crossing. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff] Reference
The remaining side was bordered by the Meole brook, no mean water hemming the gardens, but fordable or swimmable. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
I stood in the rain, and shivered, and wondered what to do, till it occurred to me that perhaps the creek was fordable. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
The river, which was very low, was fordable in many places; so much so, that the enemy might march a battalion in front. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The Potomac was unusually low; there had been a long season of dry, beautiful weather, rendering it fordable in many places. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A stream spanned by a bridge, but fordable above and below, separated him from an Austrian force of four times his strength. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The river there was wide and shallow, and would have been fordable in any case, but someone had made the crossing even easier. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Waitaki was never fordable at this point, and passengers were ferried across in a small boat behind which the horses were swum. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
The Antietam in front of Burnside was deep, not fordable, flowing in the bottom of a charming valley, and overshadowed by trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Commandant Wessels, three burghers and myself rode to the Drift -- "Basters Drift" -- to see whether the stream was still fordable. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
In such case, there will be a detention of several hours, as the current of a main herd is not fordable by any known human mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
In his rear the river being fordable, he covered the ford with a strong breastwork, defended by a guard, and kept a strong picquet of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
The difficulty of checking such trespasses along the course of a river of such length as the Rio Grande, and so often fordable, is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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