It was evident that, what in the language of the country is called a freshet was commencing. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
I never heard it called a freshet before. From Wordnik.com. [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference
'freshet' is coming down from the up country to visit us. From Wordnik.com. [Ten years on a Georgia plantation since the war,] Reference
"By the 'freshet' bein 'over I judged he meant the tide bein' out. From Wordnik.com. [The Depot Master] Reference
A dissipated freshet turned the current against the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
In seasons of freshet this becomes a total darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
No real freshet could have been more awful to behold. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
It would be like marrying a tree that the freshet was rolling about. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
This March freshet caused great pecuniary loss; new dams had to be constructed at. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
She had once helped recover some money he had lost when the freshet wrecked a part of the. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
Jim, and daughter, Lyde were in the Henderson house when the freshet came down upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Before night, the sound of running waters without was like that of a great spring freshet. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
The shore was lined with spectators, when the little party approached the scene of the freshet. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
The roadside ditches were not deep here, and the sudden freshet was badly guttering the highway. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Bicycles zipped past and from somewhere north a freshet of people flooded the sidewalk and roadway. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Devil's Gangway, especially as, in consequence of a recent freshet, it was partly filled with water. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Cañon Creek, a large stream when in freshet, where the head below the hydraulic grade line was 760 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
Both the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers were very low that season and finally froze up before the freshet came. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
That "March freshet" did incalculable damage to the whole region, but still fine crops were made that season. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
Roaring like wild cattle the logs swept by, at first slowly, then with the railroad rush of the curbed freshet. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
During the night a freshet came down, the river rose fourteen feet, and the newly finished bridge was swept away. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
We arrived next at Flood Hall, where a party of explorers were once put in great peril by a sudden freshet in the stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Here, as in all the neighboring region, are plainly visible the terrible effects of the great freshet of October 1st, 1856. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
One Sunday there was a freshet in Owl Creek, on the south side of the town, and many people went to see it, I among the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
About a quarter of a mile from the tent we came across the wreck of an old bridge, which had been washed down by some freshet. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
How isolated and bewildered are villagers, when, after a tempest, the news spreads that a freshet has carried away the bridge!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
You ducked out across country the night of the punkin freshet, when I was mud bound and the elephant was afraid of the bridges. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The summer was uneventful, but the winter following the great freshet came near being a disastrous one for the thriving colony. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
In fact, all fish, from sea or shore, freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, are here, on clean marble slabs, fresh and hard. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
The dead body must then be covered up by a blanket of silt or sand like that which would be deposited as the result of a freshet. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
With the coming of the spring thaw, the river bed is filled with a freshet of water which seizes and carries the logs down stream. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Many tales on the Moor speak of the amazing swiftness with which a freshet will suddenly swell and sweep down, an overwhelming flood. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The great freshet scene, when developed and tried out in the projection room at Clearwater, proved to be a very striking film indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
Sometimes, however, there comes a freshet, and then the mill runs night and day, until the water subsides, and another dry time comes on. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Standing at a bend in the stream, it resembled a mass of driftwood deposited by the freshet, yet it was the snug home of a fat old muskrat. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
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