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.
Yes, I can; they're the rails the freshet carried off from my farm last spring, and landed on to yourn.
Well, for one thing, the rails the freshet last spring drifted off from Talcott's land onto yours, and you grabbed: what was that but stealing?
You stopped to take careful aim, with the brute snarling, and the log dipping and heaving to the freshet underneath.
Jonas said he believed it was a robin, and that it must have been washed off from its place on some bush, by the freshet in the brook.
Well, but then it will run off from the brook a great deal too, and the freshet will not be so high.
He said it was rather a difficult thing to go and see a freshet without getting wet--especially for a girl.
It had been placed across the brook some distance above, for a bridge; but the freshet had brought it away, and it had drifted down to where it then was.
Of the rivers tributary to the Missouri, it is remarkable that their mouths are generally blocked up with mud, consequent to the subsidence of the summer freshet of that river, which usually takes place in the month of July.
A fall freshet usually takes place in October or November, and the river is again navigable for a few weeks.
It usually continues in this stage till it is swollen by the fall freshet of the Ohio, after which it subsides again, and remains low during the winter.
The Platte is seldom navigable, except for skin canoes, requiring but a moderate depth of water, and for these only when a freshet prevails in the river.
Even a fall freshet has been known to inundate plantations situated within the valleys, to the depth of eight or ten feet.
In time of a high freshet it moves with an {260} accelerated velocity, equal to five or five and half miles per hour.
The Mississippi is usually at its lowest stage about the middle of August, the summer freshet of the Missouri having subsided previously to that time.
He was not in the least portentous or solemn, but he was the most strongly feeling and real creature she had ever heard speaking to her and he swept her along with him, as if he had indeed been the Spring freshet and she a leaf.
It was like the rising of a Spring freshet and had the same irresistible power.
The poorly built, leaky, insecure adobe houses had been heretofore a protection, but thefreshet filled them almost instantly with water.
Several companies, marching to New Mexico, had encamped for the night, and the freshet came as suddenly upon them as upon all of us.
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.
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.
This levee cut off the waters from spreading when the freshet was on.
Extensions of levee work cut off more and more of the bottom-lands from the spread of the high waters till now nearly four-fifths of the area over which the waters of the June freshet used to spread are protected by these structures.
That freshetdeposited a new layer of sand and also bushels of clam and snail shells of all sizes and species.
It must have been a March freshet when the Knight Huldebrand put Bertalda into Kuhleborn's wagon and the gentle Undine saved them both.
Though a very inconsiderable stream, its steep muddy banks were now almost filled, by the reflux occasioned by the freshet in the Missouri.
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 colours of the world of freshetwere as delicately thrilling as its scents and sounds.
Into this opalescent scene, some days before the freshet reached its height, the logs began to come down.
Though their primary appearance has been marred by dams and mills, they are still impressive in freshet seasons.
This conveys more the idea of a flood or great freshet than the result of tide, and I long to see the waters of the ocean advancing at the rate of four knots an hour to fill this extraordinary basin; this sight I hope to enjoy to-morrow.
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.
It came down with the freshet the other day, and here it will stay until a flood sweeps it out into the main stream.
Now, Stede Bonnet was a planter of high reputation and religious character, who, from some sudden and overpowering freshet of wildness in his blood, had given up everything in order to start off pirating in the Caribbean Sea.
They get caught in our little bay, and then when some extrafreshet comes they are washed out again and carried out to sea.
A little later you will discover, at some point a few hundred miles down-stream, that the river is just commencing to swell, as the result of the freshet upon which you originally started.
He knew that a freshet was imminent, and believing that we should never leave Laupahoehoe, he was setting off, provided with tackle for getting himself across, intending to join us, and remain with us till the rivers fell.
And, if you don't agree with me, just remember that freshet when the river got above the bridges.
Friendships were being made and broken, over questions as to whether the river had risen four inches the past hour, or only one, and as to whether this freshet were more important than the one five years before.
The Nest of the Mallard When the spring freshet went down, and the rushes sprang green all about the edges of the shallow, marshy lagoons, a pair of mallards took possession of a tiny, bushy island in the centre of the broadest pond.
It was a nasty place enough at low water, but in freshet a roaring terror to all the river-men.
Long before reaching our place of destination, a freshet came pouring down the bed of the Swannanoah, and, as we had to ford it at least twenty times, we met with a variety of mishaps, which were particularly amusing.
In 1844, the great freshet occurred in the Mississippi, raising the waters in the lower part of the Ill.
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.
Across the intervening tracks, through the gate and the station and out again at the far side of the waiting room the living freshet poured.
So, then, at sight of the familiar apparition the icy shell of half a century thawed and broke to bits and was washed away in a freshet of agony; and to his one friend, for one moment, Major Foxmaster bared his wrung and tortured soul.
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