| 单词 | freshet |
| 例句 | Resolve had begun to flow into him, at first like a freshet, then like a river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The freshets had made a small sandy beach through which the pool flowed, and bright green watercress grew in the damp sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting freshets carried streams of fresh water far out to sea and drew in unusual numbers of salmon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Here they washed themselves and drank their fill at the in-falling freshet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Some way below the mere they came on a deep well of water, clear as crystal, from which a freshet fell over a stone lip and ran glistening and gurgling down a steep rocky channel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The play itself is a freshet of good will, a celebration of the indomitability of man, a call to return to the earth,” the critic Mel Gussow wrote in the Times in 1979. Danny and Lucy DeVito Head to Broadway With Roundabout Theater Company’s New Season 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z November also offers incredible freshwater salmon fishing, especially following a freshet triggering Puget Sound and coastal rivers back into fishing shape. Tony Floor digs into his tackle box and comes up with wide range of fishing options 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Streams and freshets ran all over the Los Angeles landscape, and Arroyo de la Sacatela coursed virtually alongside the dozen or so acres of the Bimini Baths site. From sacred to profane: A brief history of Southern California's hot springs 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z River, the San Gabriel River, the streams and freshets of a hundred hills. Search for the center of L.A. and you might miss the city's heart 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Or, they might be narratives from which I might break free, like a crab molting its shell, a seed floating on a freshet, a lizard jettisoning its tail to escape. Opinion | The Earth in Sadness 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Its tiny seeds will float atop the current of a spring freshet, and, waterborne to a sandy beach, sprout within 24 hours of hitting even the barest cobble. Fluff is survival tactic for a tough species: cottonwood 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The high water marks of former freshets, but not of cloudbursts, show on the side of the stream. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Timothy, a Nez Percé chief living on Snake River at the mouth of the Alpowa, put them across the wicked stream, then running high with the May freshet, and went on with them as guide. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Summer freshets, when pasture lands are inundated, offer an excellent opportunity for collecting the dung-inhabitingspecies in a clean condition. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z The squaws gathered about him and stripped him naked, trailed him down the bank, and plunged him into the creek; there was a freshet in the creek at the time, which carried him off. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The familiar river, which every freshet changed just enough to sharpen our eyes for new pools, slipped over its smooth golden stones, inviting our dusty feet. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z At last we came to a brook, a lovely freshet, broadening into a mill-stream; for we could see far off in the clear air the flash of that wheel, and hear its last murmuring fall. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z After the June freshets have subsided, many fish are usually left in small pools in the streams. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z These freshets, sweeping over the low banks or inundating wide stretches of low land, carry with them all insects that have been caught by the inundation. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z On the return trip, about fifty yards from shore, the canoe struck sharply and obliquely against a half-submerged log that a Fall freshet had swept down from the river above the lake. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z There was a stream to be crossed on the way, and in times of freshet Our Lady would appear in person and lead her by the hand over the tops of the waves. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z This is a most merciful provision: for if the freshets in two or three of these streams were to happen at the same time, the effects would be desolating. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z The wind goes murmuring between gray walls, and the sound of the stream, far down, comes vaguely save in the freshet month. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Still more profitable than the spring floods are the summer freshets, because a larger and more diversified lot of Coleoptera is then brought down by the water. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Fortunately the larger part of these improvements were postponed to the next season, for during the winter 1908-09, which was exceptionally severe, an extraordinary freshet and piling up of ice on the river occurred. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z And like the hills when such a storm has wreaked its noisy wrath and swollen all the thread-like streams to freshets, he lay by his straw stack supine and shaken. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The freshets to which they are subject, all occur at different seasons, beginning with the southernmost and ending with the most northerly. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Lincoln realized this and, though proverbially slow in his movements, prepared to find a firm footing when the great rush of waters should come and the maddening freshet sweep former landmarks out of sight. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z The freshet after we left the Rapidan carried away the railroad bridge over that river. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z You who speak by the card will well remember the turbid freshets you handed in, long ago, with a sort of awe to think you had penned them. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Now, he will hear it, I thought; and in an instant I heard him cry to the others: 'Boys, we must pull out from this—there's a devil of a freshet coming.' The Sa'-Zada Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:18.457Z This bridge was perhaps sixty feet in length, and had doubtless been carried away by a freshet from some tributary of the upper river which it had spanned. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z They have been topped to make their roots strike deeper and wider into the soil, so that when the freshets come in the spring the banks will stand firm. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z It seemed that all these years he had built up barriers of moral responsibility only to see them swept away before a freshet of fears. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The last few feet of this slide ended abruptly where the cliff had been worn away by the spring freshets and floods. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z One end of the foundation was partly torn away by the freshet that destroyed the old bridge. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z The freshet came before there had been a drop of rain in our vicinity; but it began to rain immediately after, and it seemed as though it would never stop. A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry 2011-10-15T02:00:29.757Z Here logs to a greater or less extent always jam, the number varying according to the height of the freshet. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z We're going to do away with the freshets, Mrs. Ray," the young man said; "the dam—if it comes—will be the biggest blessing that ever came this way, let me tell you. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z I have a drunken woman with nine snakes That follow her as freshets a drowned body, Then lift wise sibilant heads in guardian swaying; Her lair could well be traced by emptied streets. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z The river is roaring and rushing tumultuously with the added wealth of the spring-time freshets. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Abnormal conditions such as freshets, and storms, sometimes cause complaints regarding tastes and odours. Chlorination of Water 2011-09-13T02:00:32.243Z On one occasion he ventured upon a jam of logs just above a rolling dam, over which the spring freshets poured one vast sheet of water, plunging several feet perpendicularly into a boiling cauldron. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z They had been disturbed by a freshet, and the driver alighted to adjust them. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z “Do you reckon the spring freshet’s re’lly due yet?” propounded a third man. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Ruth succeeded in finding her uncle’s cashbox that had been stolen from him at the time a freshet carried away a part of the old mill. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z He couldn't get used to the crowds on every street, these roaring rivers of strange faces rushing by like the waters of a swollen stream after a freshet, hurrying and swirling out of its banks. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z In brook-driving it is necessary to begin early, in order to get the logs into the more ample current of the main river while the freshet is yet up. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Of the coarse species of the catfish and buffalo-fish which are found in its waters, I suppose the freshet has deprived us of a sight. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Spring had really come, and the annual freshet was likely now to force the ice entirely out of the cove and open the way for traffic in a few hours. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z This was the greatest freshet which has taken place since the settlement of the country by the Whites, but the Indians related to the early settlers accounts of still higher waters. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z He did not have to do as so many lumbermen have to, depend on the spring freshet to carry his winter cut down to his mill. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z In time of freshets, in the spring and fall, doubtless the Penobscot disgorges more water; but during the summer and winter months the waters of the Androscoggin exceed in quantity. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z It had afterwards been undermined by the freshets of the stream, and had fallen. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z A recent freshet had carpeted the shaded ground with soft, white sand. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Mr. Meginness, in his "Otzinachson" or "History of the West Branch of the Susquehanna," mentions that the same impression prevailed in that region concerning freshets, only that theirs recurred once in fourteen years. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z Since the town's founding, freshets have disturbed its tranquillity and productivity. The thoroughly American soul of John Brown 2011-06-12T15:01:00Z The greatest fears were entertained throughout the winter for the consequences during the spring freshet, and yet no effectual precautions could be taken to guard against impending calamity. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z With rivers of perspiration pouring down his rotund countenance, like spring freshets down the side of a mountain, he gallantly piloted Georgiana through the mazes of the waltz. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z They knew how to keep a field from being gutted by mountain freshets, and how to repair roadways and build drains that would carry off the water. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z In 1844, the great freshet occurred in the Mississippi, raising the waters in the lower part of the Ill. still higher than they afterwards were in 1849. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z She must have seen spring freshets before, many a one during the past thirty years, and have known both their benefit and injury to the human soul. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z From the causes alluded to, the Androscoggin is not much affected with drought, nor so seriously by freshets as most rivers, the mills being protected by ledges. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z I 132 spent four hours up on top of Black Rock once in a sudden freshet. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z They are now, with the exception of Dr. McLoughlin's mills, nearly the only mills in the whole country left standing by the late freshet, and they have been very materially injured. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z An idea is current in this part of the country, that great freshets recur, continuing throughout the greater portion of the summer, once in seven years. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z The freshets of the will resemble those of rivers, which for a time muddy all the springs; but take away the rivers, and the springs are gone too.– Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z The river is very crooked, and when we have an ice freshet, it is piled up in large quantities in the bends of the river, in some instances for five or six miles. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z They had not gone far, however, when they were halted by a wide stream which the spring freshets had transformed into an impassable barrier. White Otter 2011-05-07T02:00:32.243Z A recent freshet swept away the bridges he built in the Glen, but otherwise it is the same as it was before. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z Now, I am told, they don't build bridges any more, but lay cement roads through the sand, clearing their surfaces after the freshets. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z But there he lived, on a tiny level plot under the railroad bank, so near the river that each spring freshet threatened entire destruction. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z In the pioneer days the Poplar river had presented a serious obstacle to traffic in the spring and early summer freshets, until old Simon Crotton had squatted on the bank and constructed a passable ford. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z The pond was full of logs lately run down on a freshet, and the green flood swirled noisily past them. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z In them was the spirit of spring, and freshets, and early birds, and saplings, and What Every Young Man Ought to Know and all that sort of thing. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z But only at that instant, as in the next it is headed into a bed of "witheys"—flooded by the freshet—and pushed on through them to the bank beyond. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The Government boat comes up in late April, while the river is still very rapid, brown and swirling after the spring freshet, and sets the channel buoys. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z His eyes were closed, or nearly so; a healthy freshet of tobacco juice meandered across his chin, and his red, sunburned face was so expressionless that at first we thought he had not seen us. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Last year the freshet had driven him from his childhood's home in the cornfield by the brook, and now he resided in a snug hole in the pasture. A Little Book of Profitable Tales 2011-03-03T03:00:47.690Z The freshet widened and grew more shallow; the keel of the canoe scraped across a ridge of silt. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Once a year, when the spring freshet caused the Big Grandee to overflow its banks, the whole tract was inundated. Jimmie Moore of Bucktown 2011-02-24T03:00:53.640Z We woke one March night to hear every bell in town ringing, while a long ominous whistle repeated the terrifying signal of the freshet alarm. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z "If it would give you pleasure, and you are not afraid of the rain, we might ride down," he said, after a detailed description of the freshet. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Throughout, however, it is of generous width and at times rises in a true torrential manner: this when the spring freshets and melting Alpine snows are directed thither toward their natural outlet to the sea. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The ground shelved, and under the arched branches a spring freshet, scarcely seven feet in width, ran hurriedly into the unseen. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The pier at its western extremity was undermined by the water during a spring freshet, and gave way. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z A freshet came, and the house was surrounded by water. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z The freshet which was so destructive to the lower stretch of railway could not reach this upper portion. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z But only at that instant; as in the next it is headed into a bed of “witheys”—flooded by the freshet—and pushed on through them to the bank beyond. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The river, swollen and turbid by the spring freshets, and lashed into fury by the high winds, was one sheet of white foam, like the land in a December snow-storm. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z The channel between it and the "mainland" on the north side, was completely choked up with logs and large branches, brought down by the freshets. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z During this freshet a man and his wife, who occupied a ranch on the Feather River, had an experience more remarkable than that of Martin Morse. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This detour was necessary on account of the flooding of the country by freshets. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z I would turn away, pretending to busy myself with other things, but in reality to hide the freshet of tears his silent expression of sympathy had undammed.... My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Though the place was a “drift” used by Hottentots, Bechuanas, traders, and occasionally “trek-boors,” yet none of the party knew any thing of its depth, now that the freshet was on. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z They were a few years afterwards, seriously damaged during the breaking up of the ice, and then carried away bodily in one of the spring freshets to which the Don is subject. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z He had seen trickles of 141 water grow into freshets and feed rivers. The Law of Hemlock Mountain For three days Howard's men were engaged in destroying the railroad west of the Edisto,—waiting also for the left wing, which had been detained by freshets. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The great freshets of last month carried away the wires that were to operate the first pair. A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war, 1861-1865 There chanced to be a freshet in the river; and they had encamped, and were waiting until the water should fall and the ford become passable. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z During the last week in May an immense amount of rain fell in the Northern part of Illinois; occasional great freshets in all the rivers. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 She asked the question honestly, with eyes in which sincere tears glistened, and at last words came in freshet volume. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Where streams are swift or where there is danger of the houses being carried away by freshets, they dig burrows in the bank, making the entrance below the surface of the water. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. For an hour the talk ran in a hot freshet, while newcomers augmented the handful, and with the increase of numbers came a fuller-throated mounting of passion. The Tempering A freshet had made a wreck of the mill and dam. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document In the course of the night, the bridge was carried away by the freshet, caused by the heavy rains. My First Campaign Like waters moving slowly at first but swelling into freshet power, wrath and insatiable thirst for vengeance swept him to a sort of madness. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The annual freshets of the Nile saturate its central valley, and vast reservoirs of water are saved from it and let out over its surface, and it all evaporates, but produces no rain. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Like drift on a freshet, elements of irreconcilable difference were dashing pell-mell toward catastrophe. The Tempering Another serious consideration was that, during the summer season, all the rivers of the Plains are liable to sudden and tremendous freshets, that often render them impassable for days. Campmates A Story of the Plains It used to be there, but spring freshets and beating storms have washed it away.” The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution Here and there we see where the Salinas River has eaten great pieces out of its banks, during the spring freshets. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Later, what with cutting off the woods and the work of the freshets, a large part of the island was washed away. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day His undemonstrative nature was, just now, an ice-flow racked by a warm and unaccustomed freshet, and his straight lip-line twisted up, down, and up again under his effort. The Tempering The days when the thrushes sang matins were come, and all the way she heard freshets of holy song pouring down through the air. Plashers Mead A Novel Long ago, this porch was removed and the house itself was taken from the roadside on 188 the plain below, because of a great freshet, and removed to its present location. The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution They said that a stream from the mountains had in a recent freshet overflowed the plain and reduced both the road and the adjoining country to the state of a swamp. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Here are the paths of the midsummer brooks, but vocal now only in the freshets. The Holy Earth Animation snapped and sparkled in his dark eyes; it broke into a score of expressive gestures that enlivened his words: it manifested itself in quick movements and a freshet flow of unflagging conversation. The Tempering It was in July, the season of freshets in streams having their sources in the Rocky Mountains, when the warmer the weather the faster the snows melt and the deeper and more rapid the stream. Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 A large stone set in a secure place surely is a better boundary than a wayward stream whose course is changed by every freshet. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman Under these, near the water's edge, lay heaps of mussel shells,—white, pink, yellow, and purple,—the gift of the river to the land, and a reminder of the April freshet. Clover and Blue Grass This was the dry time, but with earliest dawn would come the freshet, flooding the cañon, surging over its rocky bed to some outlet as mysterious as its source. Ewing\\'s Lady I have waded all day in early spring freshet water with no positive discomfort except for the cold ring around my legs which marked the surface of the water. Camp and Trail I love the little ford over Turtle Creek where they didn't build the bridge after the freshet. The American Country Girl The feeblest ray of daylight never found its way down there, the hatches having been carefully covered with rags and matting; but freshets often did. The Children of the Poor He would stop up the river and fill it with dirt as when the freshets brought down the debris of the storms from the mountain sides. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina The land sank, and freshets came here and there, drowning out all plant life, and covering the layers of peat with beds of sand or mud. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The colours of the world of freshet were as delicately thrilling as its scents and sounds. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Furthermore, he knew they could not prove their tale by the body of Beaulieu, either, left to rot on the shore there in the spring freshets. The Whelps of the Wolf His father and mother had been swept away by a freshet, and the little rat was almost starved. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories In times of a freshet it is very dangerous. Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York After centuries of freshets, and of filling in with the rock débris brought by the streams, they became great marshes, in which grew water-loving plants. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Here and there, just above the reach of the freshet, a pine or spruce interrupted the picture emphatically with an intrusion of firm green-black. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life They came running up, each bearing one of the old fence rails that had been at some time washed down the stream during a freshet. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners She was the one who made the rafts when there was a freshet,—and took them all out together on the mill-pond. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories You are shrewder than you admit, Lord Stranleigh, but you forget what I said about freshets. Lord Stranleigh Abroad In earlier times the river flooded this whole area, when freshets swelled its tributaries in the spring. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Into this opalescent scene, some days before the freshet reached its height, the logs began to come down. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The river was a clear, shallow stream, and had not yet been swollen or turbid by the freshets near its source above. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia The Sacramento, like linked sweetness, is long drawn out, and the boisterous brooks of the Sierras seem rather upland freshets than substantial rivers. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making Channels of news worn smooth by the placid streams of everyday platitudes began to show the roll of this new freshet. Eleven Possible Cases In previous years he had helped raft lumber in Maine during the spring freshets, so that the situation was not such a novel one. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon A little way ahead the banks were high and the channel narrow; and the river, no longer able to relieve the freshet strain by spreading itself over wide meadows, became a roaring rapid. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The river is a muddy rapid stream, subjected to heavy freshets during the melting of the upland snows, and coursing close along the southern edge of the plains. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Is singing the air to gladness new As the breaking bud And the freshet's flood! Song-Surf The late heavy rains had caused quite a freshet in the Ohio river and its tributaries. Our Battery The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. Where thousand the freshets are crowded like peasants to a fair; Clear skinned, wild from seclusion, They jostle white armed down the tent-bordered thoroughfare Praising my Lady. The Tempers T was April, and the time of freshet, when "Again the last thin ice had gone To join the swinging sea." The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Yet Sherman was converging great rivers of men from the north, the northwest and west down upon that narrow gap, as if he meant to move the eternal rocks by a freshet of human force. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign "Where in time do you s'pose the 200th Injianny is in all this freshet of men and mules and bosses?" said Si, with an anxious brow. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys He could not palm off on them any common old mud freshet for a creek that had a regular place on the map. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign By this time the freshet was so great that it was impossible to repair the bridge. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles Drive a stake through at frequent intervals, and secure firmly at the top; else a hard freshet will wash it all out. The Apple Horley Bottom, where the hay used to be frequently carried into the river by a June freshet, was now safe from flood. The Hills and the Vale At the height of the freshets, especially the April rise, often the logs and trees came down so thick and solid that they resembled floating islands. Bring Me His Ears It seemed to him that they stood around the platform in as ugly crookedness as a lodgment of driftwood on a Wabash bottom after a freshet. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign Beware how you do that on a warm day when a thaw of snow on the peaks might cause a sudden freshet; for if the waters rose here, there would be no escape! Through Our Unknown Southwest He pondered again upon the present and the future of the unhappy race upon whom freedom had come as a wild freshet. John March, Southerner Over roots of trees, over old decaying trunks, over barricades of dead limbs brought down by freshets and left lodged, she climbed, she sprang, she ran. Cudjo's Cave The spring freshet usually covers the lower interval and the elevated plateau then becomes an island. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 I was told that this was the heaviest freshet that had ever been known in those parts. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Frazer's position was most critical; his bridge had been broken by a freshet, and for one whole day he was cut off from the main army. Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. When a freshet coursed down the coulée, and the low spots on the prairie filled until they were broad ponds, around which the migrating wild-fowl alighted with joyous cries. The Plow-Woman He was not yet beaten by the Indians, the snows, the freshets and the hunger. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters In the spring of the year 1701 the settlers had a most unhappy experience in consequence of an extraordinarily high freshet. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 But between us and our goal lay the Edzina river, now swollen by a recent freshet. Across Asia on a Bicycle The freshet rendered his pontoon bridge too short, etc. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital A spring sending forth a rivulet of clear water, and not subject to overflow in freshets, is the best location. Soil Culture Remember the heavy rains of the last few weeks have caused something of a freshet. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields Such a system of canalization, along with the building of large reservoirs, that will collect the water in cases of freshets through thaws or heavy rainfalls, would be of great usefulness. Woman under socialism The mountain freshets, dissolving the salt from their sandy channels, carry it down in solution and deposit it with evaporation in massive layers, forming a comparatively hard roadway in the midst of the shifting sand-dunes. Across Asia on a Bicycle Then it rose again in another place, then in another; then five or six little freshets rose all at once, the rings crossing and recrossing. The Thread of Gold These must all be so arranged that freshets will not connect them all together. Soil Culture There, looking at the work which was going on around a new well, were the man and the boy they had once rescued from the freshet on the Rick Rack River. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields Frequent freshets are the consequence of the dismantling of mountain woodlands. Woman under socialism The rain fell in cloud-bursts, and the narrow streets of the old town ran like streams in a freshet. Carmen Ariza Joshua's first victory, says Tahnage, was conquering the spring freshet of Jordan. Arrows of Freethought Once they passed what seemed to be a lumber camp, at which some sturdy men were at work, getting logs ready to float down the river with the usual Spring freshet. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School At either end, where the water was shoal, and comparatively dead even in time of freshet, the dam ran straight, taking the shortest way. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Into this dismal swamp the rivers brought down their freshets, the waters mingling and winding by devious channels before they reached the sea. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Quite often he would block the stream below the falls with sediment sent down by freshets during the rainy seasons. Legends of the Wailuku The rivers at the South were low, and it was not supposed they would rise sufficiently to float produce to market before the occurrence of the spring freshets, in the following April or May. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Along the bottoms there is good land, of less value than formerly because of freshets. The Negro Farmer Out in the middle 68 of the pond there was not one dwelling; and he came presently to the conclusion that here, between the narrow banks, the current would be heavy in time of freshet. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories No wonder, then, that the warm March sun came to shine upon it day after day, and the copious spring showers fell, there should have been a very unusual "flood," or freshet. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Then one day a prospector went into the valley after a big freshet and came across his wrecked shanty. The Greater Power The early voyagers had slipped up the Fraser before the freshets came down from the melting snows to swell the torrents of that river. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail In recent years, owing to the cutting of the forests in the hills, the planters are troubled by freshets in the spring and droughts in the summer. The Negro Farmer It carries daily from ten to twenty heavy railway-trains in both directions, and has withstood several severe freshets and storms without injury. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Several years ago the beautiful Shenandoah valley in West Virginia was the scene of a great freshet. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad “You can’t do much about the fall until after the autumn freshets, anyway, and there’s a good deal you can’t get at until the frost sets in,” he declared. The Greater Power The river rose beyond the highest mark of summer freshets, till the low-lying meadow above the village was converted into a lake, and Brighteye's burrow disappeared beneath the surface of a raging flood. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Five years he tried to drain it, working night and day, and pouring good money into it, and five times the freshets washed out his crops for him. Thurston of Orchard Valley My seventh is in freshet, but not in tides. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly At the time of the great freshet, a homeless family, whose house had been swept away by the flood, had been harbored at Florence’s home. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad After going some distance over the gravel bars, he came to a place where the 203 swirl of the last freshet had gouged a hole almost to bedrock. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation At that time the water, clearing after a summer freshet, was fairly low. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The snow melts fast in hay-time, and, more often than I like, a freshet harvests my timothy grass for me. Thurston of Orchard Valley Right at the bottom of the steep road is a bridge across the creek; or, at least, what was once a bridge, for a freshet or something seems to have torn it partially up. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Still, night by night, in storm, calm, or freshet, Paul pulled himself in a skiff across that mighty river, and we could see the lights shining to a late hour in the little bower. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life He hastened up over the rocks to the heaps of logs and branches stranded on the high end of the barrier by the freshets. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation It was a nasty place enough at low water, but in freshet a roaring terror to all the river-men. The Backwoodsmen The thunder of El Rey’s beating hoofs was like the sound of the cataracts when the cañons shot their freshets from the Rockface. Tharon of Lost Valley But most of them were lying where they had been built, or left by the preceding tide, along high-water mark, as hopelessly stranded, for the next two hours, as a birch log after a freshet. In the Morning of Time When Napoleon entered Paris the people ran together with one accord, and the tides of enthusiasm rose like a mountain freshet. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The “Resources of Tennessee” had come down with a spring freshet in Jackson River, and was rather stained with mountain clays. The River Prophet They were careful to pull up the boats high and dry, and to secure them in case of any freshet. The Young Alaskans on the Trail The thunder of the king’s iron-shod hoofs was in her ears like the roar of the spring freshets when the empty cañons poured their temporary torrents down the Rockface into the Valley. Tharon of Lost Valley But the spring, short as it was, had its great attractions, and chief of these was the freshet which it brought to the river. A Boy's Town Snowslides moved on hundreds of steeply pitched slopes, and fed sudden rivulets into freshet roarings. The Roof Tree Wait till the whiskers get on the rails, lad, and a freshet or two strikes 999. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Sounded like thunder and a freshet and a forest-fire all at once. Year of the Big Thaw A very sweet song, with a simple but spirited chorus, and as the sympathetic electricity of excitement seized the performers we were all in a minute going down the rapids in a spring freshet. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement So, if my boy ever saw a freshet, it naturally made no impression upon him. A Boy's Town They stood, with sweat already flowing in tiny freshets out of their pores and eyes blazing with murderous fire. The Roof Tree Well—George Alcott and I—do you know George?—no great loss—we were kept one Sunday in that respectable little town by a freshet. Say and Seal, Volume II "Shoot, now, nothing but the freshet," I told her. Year of the Big Thaw I don’t suppose my poor little Dinkie has yet awakened to the fact that his body is a worn river-bed down which must race the freshets of far-off racial instincts. The Prairie Child Farmers and mill men eyed the scene with some apprehension, and talked of freshet. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Then with her young arms under his head and her own head bowed until her lips pressed his, the dry-eyed, heart-cramping suspense of these anxious days broke in a freshet of unrestrained tears. The Roof Tree New hopes, as upon a great freshet of content, came to him to give him comfort. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar I kind of thought, though I didn't tell Marthy, that somebody's house had floated away in the freshet and run aground in our back pasture. Year of the Big Thaw That was the time of the big freshet. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail He, anxious for the fate of his mill in the impending freshet, had not heard the cries farther up shore, and knew nothing of what was going on. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill With a morose passion closely akin to mania the thoughts of the other man, standing with hands clenched at his back, were running in turbulent freshet. The Roof Tree De calves give her a big chase and jumped de creek near a big raft of logs dat had done washed up from freshets. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Rev'rend, I heard tell once about some tomfool idiot going over Niagary in a barrel, and I tell you it was like that when I tried crossin' that freshet to reach the contraption. Year of the Big Thaw Three little chickens, Born in a shoe, When the freshet came, Didn't know what to do: One went on deck, Just to watch the weather, While down below The others sat together. The Nursery, March 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The old mill's secret had been torn from hiding by the freshet. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The freshet, however, produced by the late rain-storm, had rendered it swifter than common; and we knew that the canoe would be carried down with considerable rapidity—faster than we were travelling on horseback. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness You ducked out across country the night of the punkin freshet, when I was mud bound and the elephant was afraid of the bridges. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 I went under and down, and was whacked by floating sticks and whirled around in the freshet. Year of the Big Thaw One of the bridges had been swept away by the freshet, and, in trying to cross, he missed the ford. Macaria The freshets had been high for many days before that fatal Friday. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Between rolled the brown waters of the Obion, in ruder, grander flow, and with channel extended by the freshet. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness It came to her as innocently as the same impulse comes to the doe when the spring freshets are seeking the river, and as innocently her lips met his in their first kiss of surrender. Brand Blotters When the rivers rise above their ordinary height, the waters of the smaller streams, which are backed up by the freshets of the former, break over their banks, and cover all the low grounds. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West The only stone known to be in the whole swamp was at the head of the stream, on a tiny hillock formed of logs and the d�bris of many freshets. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk They had been told again and again that the dam was unsafe, and whenever the freshets were out there were stories and rumors of its probable breaking. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin And—"would you believe it?"—next day a freshet came down and set the vessel afloat. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The road, is however, unsafe in many places where the freshets have scooped away the banks and indented the road with small gullies, which being neglected by the inhabitants, endanger the overturning of carriages. History of New Brunswick He was drowned saving timber in a freshet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 It might originally have been a small river, but now, owing to the spring rains and freshets, it looked turbulent and dangerous. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War This would be thought "a small specimen" of a river with us, as, except when the waters are swollen with a freshet, it is but a narrow and shallow mountain stream. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children It may be imagined how piety intensifies in a freshet, or in a heavy gale of wind! The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Farther to the east an open grove intervened between the dormitories and the meadows along the Remona River where bog hay was cut, and which were sometimes flooded in the freshet season. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers He watched the herd anxiously, for the stream was running strong 164 from the freshet. The Fighting Edge Offsetting its advantages, the stream, little by little, has undermined the maze of roots and the force of annual freshets has trained them all in a down-stream direction. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year At last he invented a way by which it might rain and rain, and there might be freshets and freshets, and yet their meadows would not be overflown. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin In fair weather it soothed and charmed, and in storm and freshet rose to the deep solemn growl of thunder. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Should there be a freshet, some of these fruits will float; or, in case of shallow currents after a rain, some of them are washed away from the parent plant. Seed Dispersal A dry weed-choked irrigation ditch paralleled the trail, its wooden flumes, like the fence posts, rotting where they stood, and its walls all but obliterated by the wash of spring freshets. The Gold Girl The river began rising very fast at dark, but the bridge has stood so many freshets we were hopeful of this. The Telegraph Messenger Boy The Straight Road to Success This great jam attracted visitors from all parts of the country until the spring freshets of the next year could supply the river with water sufficient to loose them and bear them on their way. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Another time during the freshet, Mr. Thomas Cook and I went ashore, and were nearly carried by the swift current between two packet boats, but we fortunately saved ourselves. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy Spring freshets had carried away the little bridge, doubtless years before, and now the stream was spanned by nothing but an old tree-trunk, carelessly thrown across. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The cold snow waters ran down from the mountains and into the Columbia River, and made a freshet on the river. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes It gave me an appreciation of the tremendous irresistibility of the freshet, which must have ended the lives of the hapless party almost on the instant. The Telegraph Messenger Boy The Straight Road to Success It seemed to start a freshet of dust down my neck, clear my throat, and brace me up. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 One time, during a freshet in the Ohio river, I think in January, I had occasion to go to one of the monitors anchored in the rear of the Oneota. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy At this point Bitter Creek was about four feet deep and ten or twelve feet wide, with low, bushy shores subject to overflow at the slightest freshet. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life A freshet cleaned it out, and tore away its banks so as to make the present broad river of it. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim I kept away from every point where I could catch so much as a glimpse of the freshet. The Telegraph Messenger Boy The Straight Road to Success He noticed as he walked down toward the stable that the freshet had come up over the flat, and just before the door he had to wade. Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells Doctor, did you ever hear of those wise people who, after every freshet, shipped the surplus water down the river in boats? Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner "The ordinary current of the Mississippi is about five miles an hour, and in such a freshet it must be as much as seven." Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi The freshet had swept away all the boats, but to Aunt Nancy this was a trifling matter. Stories Of Georgia Any time they tapped a patient for dropsy up that creek there would be a destructive freshet, I judged; but, as it developed, this brook was deceptive—it was full of deep, cold holes. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare And it was lucky there was no freshet upon Mr. Frog's fitting-day, for there would have been no one except the women and children to do any work. The Tale of Ferdinand Frog There are islands, ferry boats and rafts can ply, and the only danger is from sudden freshets. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir I never heard it called a freshet before. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi He hugged the cross freshets instead of striking out into the smoother water. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Bowlders of six feet in diameter were afterward found lying twenty feet above the bed of a brook where trout had been caught before the freshet. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy None of us had ever seen anything to compare with it, for the spring freshets of other years had been mild affairs as compared to this. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The spring freshets had swollen the stream and set its waters far back into the forests that lined its banks on either side. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster What, then, could be the origin of this sudden and singular freshet? The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness It had been half full when little Terence Reilly fell in, for that was the time of the backwater in the spring freshets. Mary Ware's Promised Land Here, as in all the neighboring region, are plainly visible the terrible effects of the great freshet of October 1st, 1856. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy His father said, 'Samuel, I think there is a freshet.' Caleb in the Country But when they had that tarnation big freshet about twenty years ago, it cut through this side too and made the island.” Chicken Little Jane Titanic pressure suit against the hurricanes of Jupiter, and against a gutter freshet, life was always outclassed—and always fought back. A Matter of Proportion Some wanted a freshet, some wanted a drizzle, and some wanted a fog. Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic When they came in sight of the stream, his father said, 'Yes, Samuel, there has been a great freshet, and the bridge is carried away.' Caleb in the Country Obviously Keats was not an angler. freshets, little streams of fresh water. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Just now the spring freshet had subsided, which meant that the river was clear of ice. The Heart of Unaga These in the shape of numerous little streamlets, flowing into the river, most of them still in freshet from the late rain. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Another warm day, and these waters would break through, and the streams would go free in freshets. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic A freshet came one night, the river rose and carried off every stick, so that when the "Mary Ann" arrived there was no fuel. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen A spring freshet after the winter frost, telling a little what the ice had been. The Gold of Chickaree He had crossed it easily a few days before; but a sudden spring freshet had changed it into a raging torrent, which no one else would have ventured to enter. The Story of the Greeks Once there, and attempting to travel up its bank, we’d find scores of little creeks that run into it, in full freshet, and have to swim our horses across them. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco If the earth's surface were, like iron, impervious to water, the rain-water would come in torrents down the hill-sides, and along the gentle declivities, into the streams, creating freshets and inundations in a few hours. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles For three weeks prior to the freshet, Mr Hill and one man averaged one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars a day. Handbook to the new Gold-fields "I do hope another freshet like this one won't sweep away the new village," reflected Ted. Ted and the Telephone The latter is impassable, on account of the log bridges having been swept away by the recent freshets. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 During freshets it became a torrent; and then the valley was inaccessible from the east, but that was a rare occurrence in these rainless regions. The Scalp Hunters In many cases, it must subject them to inundation by Summer freshets, and must require for their protection, catch-waters and embankments, and large facilities for drainage. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The freshet, however drove him off for the time being. Handbook to the new Gold-fields Mr. Fernald declared all along that this was no ordinary freshet. Ted and the Telephone The Robert Burns steadily churned her way down the Mississippi, yellow and swollen with the spring freshets. Gold Seekers of '49 He remembered the heavy rain of the night before; he saw that it had caused a freshet in the little river; that its subsidence had begun; and, as in most prairie-streams, was progressing with rapidity. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Our first drains ran down into a swamp, and the fall was so slight, that the mains were laid as low as possible, so that at every freshet they are overflowed. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles I gained the lower falls, which now covered the whole width of the rock, which they seldom do except during the freshets. Diary in America, Series One The Muhammadan, for example, has repeatedly come into India from outside, laden with his own stores of knowledge and feeling and his wonderful religious democracy, bringing freshet after freshet to swell the current. Creative Unity Before night, the sound of running waters without was like that of a great spring freshet. The Island Home Perhaps where the steed had passed over the stream might have been waded at low-water; but now, during the freshet, the current would have swept off horse and man like so much cork-wood. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse We have in mind now, the common case of water temporarily raised, by Winter flowage or by Summer freshets. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The roadside ditches were not deep here, and the sudden freshet was badly guttering the highway. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point These are probably all swept away by the ice in the spring freshets. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 There is no other stream which, even in a high freshet, would stop a train a single day. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Some of the inundations caused in Holland by these floods and freshets have been terrible. Rollo in Holland If we add to this the six inches that are supposed to run off in freshets, we have ten inches discharged in the course of the year by the streams. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles So the glacial waters form shoals and bars, and the woodland waters during freshets pile them high with driftwood. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska It is a long smooth rapid, with a channel on one side running close to the high gravelly bank, evidently cut away by spring freshets. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 We came down with the tide in the rear of the trunk freshet. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska She had once helped recover some money he had lost when the freshet wrecked a part of the Red Mill. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Again, all lands overflowed by Summer freshets, as upon rivers and smaller streams, require drainage. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles A blow from a floating object caused him to throw up his arms, and, clutching something solid, he clambered upon a shed carried away by the freshet from an up-river farm. At Pinney's Ranch 1898 The drawback to the plantations upon the lower Roanoke lay in their liability to being flooded by the freshets to which the Roanoke was exposed. Plantation Sketches There was ice in the gorges; the first logs through would have the freshet head of water. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The heavy freshets proved more than the culverts could carry off, and besides the stone work would wash out much quicker than did piles. The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History Many tales on the Moor speak of the amazing swiftness with which a freshet will suddenly swell and sweep down, an overwhelming flood. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Presently he saw just before him the eddying, swirling current of the river, swollen by a freshet. At Pinney's Ranch 1898 I have known freshets in March to inundate the country for miles. Plantation Sketches Both were located by the river, which during the dry season was hardly of any depth at all, but which during the heavy rains, or during the spring freshets, became a roaring torrent. American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt The summer was uneventful, but the winter following the great freshet came near being a disastrous one for the thriving colony. Followers of the Trail The plot develops rapidly, and is illustrated by exciting incidents of river freshets, shipwreck on one of the great lakes, and a prairie fire. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman When the spring freshets were on perhaps the stream reached its banks, but in the summer months it was usually subdued as now. Mary Louise in the Country That “March freshet” did incalculable damage to the whole region, but still fine crops were made that season. Plantation Sketches He noticed as he walked down towards the stable that the freshet had come up over the flat, and just before the door he had to wade. The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story The Hermit, remembering the beavers and concerned for their safety, made another trip to the pond, noting with anxious eye, long before he reached it, the havoc wrought on every hand by the freshet. Followers of the Trail As any piece of stone is good enough for the freshet to dance round and gambol with, so the least provocation would suffice to make him beside himself with joy. My Reminiscences At last, after a day of hot sunshine, we found quite a freshet of water coming down the boxes, leaping and dancing in the morning light. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance This March freshet caused great pecuniary loss; new dams had to be constructed at a heavy expense, and many miles of repairing had to be done to those left standing. Plantation Sketches The freshet tore away pieces of orchard, and apple-trees in bloom came sailing along with logs and fence rails and chicken-coops, and pretty soon dead cows and horses. The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story 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. Followers of the Trail 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. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Then there came the great spring freshet in Elk River, which rose unusually high, fifty feet above its summer level. Memoirs The notices of the probable heights which freshets may reach, are followed by preparations upon the "levees" and river-banks, to guard against overflows. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 "The freshet didn't wash away a foot of it," he said. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way For some time after the incidents just narrated the life of our hero rippled—but of course it must be clearly understood that a Suakim ripple bore some resemblance to a respectable freshet elsewhere! Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan Both the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers were very low that season and finally froze up before the freshet came. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Many and strange indeed were all the scenes and incidents of that inundation, and marvellous the legends which were told of other freshets in the days of yore. Memoirs But her mind was like a stream in freshet. The Tyranny of Weakness That was precisely the truth of the matter; and away went the bays, as if they meant to race with the freshet to see which would first arrive in Mertonville. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 If the invaders have much destroyed the house, the beavers desert it entirely and live in these kitchens until the spring freshets come and melt and carry away the ice. Winter Adventures of Three Boys There was a freshet in the river, and one night, taking a short cut over a cornfield, the steamboat stuck fast—like Eve—in an apple-tree. Memoirs Others were guiding great logs down the current, and fastening them in position where they would strengthen the dam against possible floods and freshets. Three Boys in the Wild North Land He suddenly sprang up and shook off his blues, exclaiming: "I'll go and see the freshet, anyhow!" Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way Upon this it has evidently been washed by the waters, now subsiding after the freshet, due to the late tornado. The Lone Ranche There was a freshet in the Sabine; but they swam across it, as they had done other rivers, and halted to encamp upon its western bank. The Boy Hunters During my return down the river, it was in a freshet, and we went headlong. Memoirs It was thus able to meet and best resist the force of the great currents in times of freshets and floods. Three Boys in the Wild North Land "Could a freshet here do any damage?" asked Mr. Murdoch. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way These sudden freshets are a remarkable feature of the hydrography of the great plateau, and have been more fully described in another chapter. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Dry beds of streams should be avoided; they are subject to sudden freshet. Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) The freshets which had washed the earth away from the roots, had piled a great mass of drift-wood against one side of them. The Big Brother A Story of Indian War Here the logs rest till the spring freshets come. Handwork in Wood "You might have to wait till next spring for a freshet," he said cheerfully. The Tale of Timothy Turtle It has been found by careful estimate that from eighty-five per cent. to ninety-five per cent. of the water that flows to the sea is wasted in freshets or destructive floods. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation I went over it but a few days ago, and at Brown's Crossing the road is all torn up by a freshet. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Because the biggest freshets always come in the spring, and the top of this drift-pile was put where it is by the biggest freshets, so the river won't go near the top in November. The Big Brother A Story of Indian War 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. Handwork in Wood Striking scenes and freshets of scintillating dialogue rushed through my mind. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm Crucifixes and Madonnas, carried by freshets over barren fields, brought fertility. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Those logs were cut last winter, but the water in the river last spring was evidently too low to float them down, so they must stay where they are until next spring awaiting the freshets. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods It's only somethin' the freshet left on the shore, an' the pigs wouldn't eat nohow.' Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories The object is to make the operator independent of freshets, by accumulating a head of water and then, by lifting the gates, creating an artificial freshet, sufficient to float the timber down stream. Handwork in Wood We had got beyond the April freshets and there was in consequence a soapy smell about. Journeys to Bagdad And it is a lively stream when there happens to be a freshet and both forks are pouring a flood down into it. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains During the winter a great snowdrift, seven or eight feet deep, had lodged in the brook; and the recent freshet had merely cut a channel beneath it, leaving a frozen arch that spanned the torrent. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's No currents or sudden freshets carrying hard materials with them, even moving along straight paths down hill-sides or mountain-slopes, have ever been known to draw any such lines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 At first slowly, then more rapidly, the very fore-front of the center melted inward and forward and downward, until it caught the fierce rush of the freshet and shot out from under the jam. Handwork in Wood But, mother, there's a freshet in Murder Creek. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White In Cañon de Chelly, which may be termed the garden spot of the reservation, there are diminutive farms and splendid peach orchards irrigated with freshet water. The North American Indian There's a freshet coming, and Lurvey's Stream is between us and Boundary Camp. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's He was enabled to push along at this unusual rate on account of the freshets swelling the river to a flood. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Then we'll make tracks, after the spring freshet, to another place I know of where laws is stationary and folks ain't over keen, and where a handsome woman like Joyce will help. Joyce of the North Woods Many a man as good as George Denham has crossed Murder Creek in a freshet. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White This water the natives divert to their miniature cornfields and orchards, one or two freshets assuring good crops. The North American Indian It does not take place simultaneously over the whole river, but there is a succession of freshets. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America He had heretofore known only in the indirectness of theory the sudden capriciousness of mountain weather; storms that burst and cannonade without warning; trickling waters that leap overnight into maddened freshets. A Pagan of the Hills It was hewn at a point well above the highest water level of the spring freshets. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon It was like the rising of a Spring freshet and had the same irresistible power. Robin Although the shell piles are built up higher than the bottom lands to the rear or on either side, they are submerged several feet in great freshets. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 An extraordinary freshet is expected every sixth year. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Across the line of her march boiled a freshet which might as well have been a river. A Pagan of the Hills It's pretty rough, at the best of times, and the snow will have filled in the narrow spaces between the rocks and ridges, like a freshet. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Down the hillside, past the cathedral and the college, through the heart of the city, clattered a noisy brook, which in time of freshet flooded the neighbouring streets. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Now it could show the world, or as much of the world as chose to take notice, the advantages of having a telegraph line across a creek in time of freshets. What Might Have Been Expected The freshet caused by the sudden release of the pent-up water swelled the stream for a distance of more than a hundred miles. The Story of Cooperstown As the corn crop, so carefully planned, had been destroyed by heavy freshets in the autumn, the settlers had 119to scour the woods for food, living on nuts and game. Stories of Later American History In this way 'pond freshets' are arranged one or two days in a week. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They allers take 'em after the freshets in the spring o' the year, 'n' then they have to be turrible careful to douse 'em lengthways of the river. Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It And it won't do, either, for any one of you to live on the other side, just to be ready to work the line in time of freshets. What Might Have Been Expected Restless wave! be still and quiet, Do not heed the wind and freshet, Nature wide is now fast sleeping, Why art thou so live and stirring? The Poetry of Wales The freshets had uptorn from the banks the tallest trees, which in places formed a timber-floor; and the surf-boat gallantly charged, till she leaked, the huge trunks, over which she had often to be lifted. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The spring freshets obliterate attempts at road-making and the steep hills protect it from encroachment and preserve its independence and wild beauty. Some Summer Days in Iowa On streams subject to freshets they may be two or three times that height. Ways of Wood Folk There were so few boats on the creek, and the current, in time of freshets, was so strong, that ferriage was seldom thought of. What Might Have Been Expected Farther down is a sandy hollow which was deep under water in the great January freshet. Some Winter Days in Iowa Homely are thy boatmen, venturing no more In their dusky pungies than to Baltimore, Happy when the freshet from northern mountains sweeps, And strews the bay with lumber like wrecks upon the deeps. Tales of the Chesapeake The news of the freshets was not the only sign of spring. Sunny Boy and His Playmates The roar of a spring freshet never smote the ears of the dwellers therein, and the winters passed with no danger of avalanches. Madelon A Novel A ferry was unadvisable, for the stream was too rapid and dangerous in time of freshets. What Might Have Been Expected That freshet deposited a new layer of sand and also bushels of clam and snail shells of all sizes and species. Some Winter Days in Iowa Sometimes the contour of land about the house is such that it resembles a relief map of the Finger Lake country after each heavy rain or spring freshet. If You're Going to Live in the Country "Is it a freshet?" asked Sunny Boy, remembering what his daddy had told him about freshets. Sunny Boy and His Playmates There are days in spring wherein advance seems as passive as is the progress of a log down the race of a spring freshet. The Debtor A Novel This old channel is now partially filled up, and only receives the waters of Sugarland Run in times of freshets. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia And let each intellect soar without hindrance, and the heart pour itself out before God in a freshet of divine love. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service The street that never sleeps was tonight a human spill-way, churning in freshet. Destiny It was a freshet, of course, and Daddy Horton said so. Sunny Boy and His Playmates Bare ground is a curiosity to the Eskimo; and there are no spring freshets. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Two men were caught by a heavy freshet and driven over the bar. The Romance of the Coast During the night a freshet came down, the river rose fourteen feet, and the newly finished bridge was swept away. The Story of the Guides But there's been a mighty freshet above, and Willow's Creek is something like my wife—she's an angel when she aint disturbed, but she's the devil himself when any thing puts her out. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is "A freshet, Son, is when a stream rises suddenly and overflows its natural course," explained his daddy. Sunny Boy and His Playmates Archie's father was drowned in the ford when we had the freshet last spring. Holiday Stories for Young People He was nearly smothered at the place where the chain dipped lowest, for the water was coming in freshets; but he hung on, and landed panting and with grazed limbs on the north bank. The Romance of the Coast Coming thus to a deeper gouge in the sand of the hill, he halted and gazed attentively at a thick seam of rock outcropping sharply where the long-gone freshet had laid it bare. Bruvver Jim's Baby The bridge had been partly carried away by the freshet. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is In spring, freshets are often caused by the ice and snow melting too rapidly and draining down into the brooks and rivers. Sunny Boy and His Playmates The small tree in which Nellie had taken refuge was several yards from the edge of the stream, the bank sloping so steeply that the water never reached the base, excepting during a freshet. Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 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. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Yet the freshet rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away. The Turtles of Tasman Here they were converted into lumber, which was piled up by the bank of the river until "the spring freshet." A Sketch of the History of Oneonta The water's pretty high, but I don't believe this little stream can do much in the way of a freshet. Sunny Boy and His Playmates An army can never trust, for any length of time, to either fords or ice; if it did a freshet or a thaw would place it in a most critical state. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. There were footsteps in the corridor, a scuffle and a freshet of giggling; the nurses were going downstairs after the early morning cup of tea in the ward kitchen. The Judge Now the ledges were buried deep under the immense volume of the freshet. Children of the Wild How isolated and bewildered are villagers, when, after a tempest, the news spreads that a freshet has carried away the bridge! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 They deposite their dead in canoes, on rocks sufficiently elevated not to be overflowed by the spring freshets. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific 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. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island This is called a freshet or a flood. New National Fourth Reader As he neared the ground, Rodier's quick eye detected a little river cutting its way through the forest, and at one spot a widening of its bed, due, probably, to the action of freshets. Round the World in Seven Days The freshet Jim Hooley had planned had to be handled in just the right way and everything connected with it must be done in the nick of time. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies We coasted a pretty island, well timbered, and high enough above the level of the Columbia to escape inundation in the freshets, and arrived at two villages called Maltnabah. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific No police worth mentioning; freshets every now and then; fires every day or else a building tumbles down. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. She did pretty well that winter; but one day in the spring, a great freshet ruined every thing that she had, and almost carried away her house. The Summer Holidays A Story for Children The bank was behind him, rising some eight feet, and he had ensconced himself upon a log that had been drifting down the stream in a freshet, and lodged there. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies The spring freshets had cut it up; deep gullies crossed the path; and the bridges over the streams had been in most cases washed away. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war Then came the fierce, passionate, profuse weeping—the spring freshet of a woman's soul. Trumps It was evident that, what in the language of the country is called a freshet was commencing. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times The tendency of the disease to extend to lower-lying adjacent fields was due to the spores being washed from the upper fields to the lower by the spring freshets. Disease and Its Causes No real freshet could have been more awful to behold. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Its strength was further increased by planting willows along the sides; and it was thoroughly tested just after its completion by a freshet of unusual severity. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made To him the reporter stood at the high-water mark of ambition's "freshet." The Colossus A Novel Your tale reminds me," said Pownal, addressing Bernard, "that there is a tremendous freshet in the Wootúppocut, and that the waters are increasing. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times We arrived next at Flood Hall, where a party of explorers were once put in great peril by a sudden freshet in the stream. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The text called for a freshet on the river, in which the Indian maid is caught in her canoe. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies And then I thought of that other story that Hank Simons told me,—the one about the mill back of Woodstock caving in from the freshet and burying the miller's girl. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others Fortunately the spring freshets in this country of the great snows were powerful enough to sweep out the timber actually fallen, so the course of the stream itself was clear of jams. The Silent Places The shore was lined with spectators, when the little party approached the scene of the freshet. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times It would be like marrying a tree that the freshet was rolling about. The Man Thou Gavest But the effect, as it comes past the spot where the cameras are being cranked, will be as though Wonota was in the very midst of the freshet. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Avalanches pour down from the mountains on both sides and often leave little for the spring freshets to do. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees We have had a drought so long we can stand a freshet. Around The Tea-Table Such was the state of things, when some weeks after the freshet, Mr. Armstrong acquainted his daughter, at the breakfast-table, with his intention to visit Holden that day. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times Avoid: Marshy ground and mosquitoes.Woods or dense vegetation.Ravines or depressions in terrain or dry stream beds subject to sudden freshets. Military Instructors Manual 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. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Winter buries it in ice, spring assaults it with freshets; it is rarely passable before June, and mountain storms even in summer measure their strength against it. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees There was a big freshet the next autumn, the water covering the meadows on both sides of the river, and creeping into cellars and yards and houses. Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies The trail had been washed by freshets often and was rough and stony, overhung with trees and vines. White Shadows in the South Seas It cost seventy-five thousand dollars, has five spans of one hundred and eighty-five feet each, and was built to replace a wooden deck bridge which was carried away by a freshet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 The great freshet scene, when developed and tried out in the projection room at Clearwater, proved to be a very striking film indeed. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies They leaped in over the table like a freshet over a dam. Helmet of Navarre They were born in a garden, and popular liberty, like freshets overswelling their banks, but covered their dainty walks and flowers with slime and mud—of democratic votes. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Love floated on the freshet of her voice straight into the heart of the young man who stood without. At a Winter's Fire Spring came on early, with heavy rains and freshets in many parts of the country. Real Folks Eight times it has been carried away by freshets. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 The pipe was laid under the bed of the Big Cañon Creek, a large stream when in freshet, where the head below the hydraulic grade line was 760 feet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 But, alas! for the loathsome and impure literature that has come upon this country in the shape of novels like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Have you ever seen a mule go down to the ford in spring, too heavily laden, when there is freshet? Whosoever Shall Offend The freshet which had, soon afterward, swept the town, had carried with it Wardelow's only child, a boy of seven years, who had been playing in a boat which he, in some way, unloosed. Romance of California Life The melting of the snow in the spring, and the falling rains caused a desolating freshet, which inundated all the meadow lands of the rivers, utterly destroying the crops. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam No one seems to think of placing it near the water's edge as with us; they told me that this had been done formerly, and the freshets had carried the wood away. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The mudbake proceeds to obey his superior, with many apprehensive glances at the muddy freshet, and wades gingerly in, muttering prayers to Allah the while. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The freshets of the Merrimack come chiefly from the last-named stream and minor tributaries. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 The white frost makes the meadow a lagoon and this rock is the pier of my bridge where I came out to watch one night to test the force of a freshet. Andrew the Glad In the spring of 1617 a very high freshet, accompanied by the breaking up of the ice, so injured Fort Nassau that the traders were compelled to abandon it. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam There were many islands which, with the banks of alluvium, were evidently cut by the river in high freshets. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Making light of their craven determination, I prepare to cross the freshet without their assistance, and announce my intention of proceeding alone. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Only a few times have freshets exceeded ten feet rise over that dam. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 In seasons of freshet this becomes a total darkness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 It was yet in the time of the spring freshets, and the brook stole on until it reached the heather. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The banks were alluvial and evidently washed by the river during times of freshet. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Fortunately for the junk traffic, it improves rapidly with the advent of the early spring freshets, and at mid-level entirely disappears. Across China on Foot The greatest fall of water and rise of the freshet, in this valley, known at Concord, New Hampshire, occurred in August, 1826. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 This nursery of saplings sprang up in a night after a freshet: here are quivering aspens trembling forever in penance for that one sin. In the Footprints of the Padres We use freshet in the sense of flood, for which I have not chanced upon any authority. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The first time I visited one of their fish-curing places I thought of the western city that had, after a freshet, 'forty-five distinct and different odors beside several wards to hear from.' Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Bob could see where the highest water had flung debris among the bushes, and by that he knew that the stream must be already dropping from its freshet. The Rules of the Game See whip. flood, n. deluge, inundation, overflow, cataclysm, freshet. Putnam's Word Book Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and St. Lawrence with the Falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Then comes the freshet from the mountains which floods the bed of the Elbe, often a mile in width, and is dangerous in itself, owing to its volume. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle He always appeared to me as if left there during a freshet and waiting for the river to rise and let him off. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life I've seen the time when she was piled thirty feet high there, and the freshet behind her. The Rules of the Game You fellows must have been drowned out last night; the log over the South Branch is gone in the freshet; we had to get round the best way we could. The Lady of Big Shanty |
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