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"Wade" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wade in, wade in, where the river runs Clear in the moonlight over the stones! It'll wash the ache ...

— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

... and season to this incessant panorama of childhood? The pigmy people trudge through the snow on moor and hill-side; wade down flooded roads; are not to be daunted by wind or rain, frost or the white smother of 'millers and bakers at fisticuffs.' Most beautiful of all, he sees them travelling schoolward by that late moonlight which now and again in the winter months ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... for no man, and the rapidly rising waters had flooded the whole of the low land which formed this bank of the river, so that we were compelled to wade, feeling with a stick for the edges of the creeks in our route, over each of which Mr. Helpman and myself had alternately to swim in order to pass the arms undamaged; and then Ask, making the best jump that he could muster for ...

— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes

... the coach used to take us one side and make us believe that the one thing in life we wanted was that game. He used to make us as hungry for it as a starved dog for a bone. He used to make us ache for it. So we used to wade in and tear ourselves all to pieces to ...

— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... feet in spring, though it is usually between fifty and sixty at other times. Here, in the estuary of the Petitcodiac, where the river meets the wave of the tide, the volumes contending cause the Great Bore, as it is called; and as in this region the swine wade out into the mud in search of shell fish, they are sometimes swept away and drowned. The Amazon River also has its Bore; the Indians, trying to imitate the sound of the roaring ...

— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase

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