A land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Did the Israelites once cross the Red Sea dry-shod?. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Hudson River day after day in multitudes, dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Simmons walked comfortably through & back, dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
They had crossed over dry-shod, in a night and a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Standing dry-shod as the Israelites were while crossing the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
You'll cross dry-shod to the other aide -- Oh! let my people go. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
We crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, thirty miles northwest, but not dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
These lighters being flat-bottomed could run ashore on the sand and land troops dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
I crossed it almost dry-shod on the boulders above a little fall, stopping for a moment to drink and lave my brow. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
She sits dry-shod on the steps, shakes the water from the sheets of paper and tries to consider the view in the first person. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
There shall be long verandas above and below, where invalids may walk dry-shod, and enjoy open-air recreation in wettest weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
After a moment he spotted what he was looking for, and made his way, dry-shod, along the raised paths separating the rice paddies. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
In some places they could not go dry-shod for there was room only for water, and they had to hold on to the damp stony sides for balance. From Wordnik.com. [The Lioness]
This is the night when first you saved our fathers :you freed the people of Israel from their slaveryand led them dry-shod through the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
The river, for some reason best known to itself, was so low that we got dry-shod past the corner which had worried us so much on the way up. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Hugh was at the door by then, and the brothers had hastily cleared a path through the drifts to bring the girl almost dry-shod up to the guest-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
As she hesitated to pass on, the gallant, throwing his cloak from his shoulders, laid it on the miry spot, so as to ensure her stepping over it dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
An old fellow pointed out that one of the prophesies was that when it became possible to cross the river dry-shod in five places, disaster would strike the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Thirty seconds after Brazil went into rapture in the rain, Hamilton sneaked past a dry-shod Timo Glock at the final corner to claim fifth place and the title by a point. From Wordnik.com. [Classic F1 season finishes: six decades of final grand prix drama] Reference
"In that case," said Nathan, "if thee consents to the same; I will get up behind thee, and so pass over dry-shod; for the feel of wet leather-breeches is quite uncomfortable.". From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
When Nat "waxed warmer and warmer, as he advanced, and spoke in a flow of eloquence and choice selection of words that was unusual for one of his age," did he come out dry-shod?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference
I don't even ask to go over dry-shod as the Children of the Exodus did. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Ware's Promised Land] Reference
They went carefully up over the rocks and stones, and deposited her, dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
"But first let me take thee ashore dry-shod, and then I will bring all the rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
When it is ebb-tide you can walk dry-shod across this passage (called the Hoobes). From Wordnik.com. [Viking Boys] Reference
Here the heat of summer is not felt, and you can walk dry-shod on stormy and rainy days. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
The burn was choked with fallen men and horses, so that folk might pass dry-shod over it. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
The tide was out, and they could not get the little boat up near enough the shore to land dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
The word flew from mouth to mouth, the Red Sea divided, & Simmons walked comfortably through & back, dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
Schweidnitz, and fill it up with their dead bodies, that the rear may pass over them dry-shod and gain the honour?. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Now, again pretty dry-shod and on a hard blue ice-surface, we could make excursions in the neighbourhood of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
The Rio Bianco barred our passage; but large stones, placed at intervals in the river, enabled us to cross it almost dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference
The first squad or two followed gamely, the next faltered, and all the rest spread out in confusion and tried to cross dry-shod. From Wordnik.com. [At Plattsburg] Reference
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