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Without stopping to ask her permission, the man caught up the panting, excited girl in his arms, and waded out to meet the boat.
Waist deep he waded into the stream, crouching down and rolling over in the tepid water; sucking in pints of it as he assuaged his thirst.
Gradually the canyon widens; steep rapids, cascades, and cataracts are found along the river, but we wade only when it is necessary to cross.
The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp.
Besides the tiresome work of wading, there were wounded men to help along, and a ceaseless watch to keep against another rush of the reds.
Our climate makes walking unpleasant, and to get in a good sweat in summer, or to wade through slush in winter, is hateful to the female soul.
When she had safely reached the house he went slowly homeward, wading in trouble even as he waded in the white dust of the pike.
Wading through beds of snow they did not much mind; but they wondered what would happen to their houses when the thaw came.
He hastily called off his men and retreated, the soldiers, heavily laden, wading with difficulty through the flood which gained fast upon them.
One could cross the gutter farther on, if one knew the right spot, but it would mean wading some distance, and he must be quick.
The floor was thick with mud, where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp.
Indeed, physicians will tell you that many attacks of cramps in the water are due to the swimmer's foolish habit of wading in very slowly.
The points of dry land were five miles apart, and all that distance those hardy soldiers waded the cold snow-flood, sometimes armpit deep.
I had lived near what was called the Jersey market, and saw, with pain, the inhabitants wading in mud while purchasing their provisions.
Our boatmen had a good deal of poling and wading to do for the first mile or so, as we were constantly grounding on the shingle banks.
Arrived in port there was no wharf, and the animals had to swim and wade a mile of water from the anchorage to the shore.
It was supposed that, unintentionally, he had waded in beyond his depth, and, as he could not swim, was unable again to reach the land.
The grass plain became a swamp, and soon we were playing the same old game, wading and splashing through mud and water, no road traceable.
Like most of the long-legged wading birds, the Bittern is able to change its shape, and apparently to alter its size, in an astonishing manner.
Slim and graceful as a wading bird with one extended leg, it poised atop its mount and sang quietly of power and intent to kill.
About ten o'clock, after hours of tramping through dense forest and wading through many swamps, we came upon the track of a big buck moose.
Business is business, you know, and if Frank Kingston did not know enough to ask for more wades, it wasn't my concern to enlighten him.
He strolled to the common, and there, wading through gorse, he found the doctor who had attended her from the time of their arrival.
Some of us were on shore, wading in the mud and the slush, or climbing the steep bluffs that hem in the glacier upon one side.
In places there were bridges, but most of the crossings were fords where it was necessary to wade through the icy water above our shoe tops.
With renewed energy he continued his tramp along the brook, often wading in the water when the brushwood on either side was extra thick.
The afternoon sun had begun to slant from the west as they waded out onto the sparkling sand, his arm circled around her waist.
For four days they waded through slush and water up to their knees; then came the shivering northwest wind, and all was hard again.
I waded up the road, which was swimming in a foot or two of slush, frequently I would stumble into a shell-hole hidden by the mud.
She got to know every twig of those glistening laurels shining in the rain, and to recognize even the footsteps that went wading past.
Yet, as crying did not mend matters, Betty decided to make a petticoat flag and wade as far out as possible to hail the next boat.
Then he waded in to the spot where Eugene had been staggering about, and stretching out an arm he drew him out toward the dry ground.
Luckily the farmer was near-sighted, and failed to remark the strange apparition of a tree wading across the lake up to its branch pits in water.
Their only chance was the possibility that the waters had not yet rendered impassable the hollow through which Falkland had just waded.
Ralph held his peace, and rose to be gone and turning saw the damsel wading the shallow ford, and looking over her shoulder at him.
As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink.
The cow seemed so fascinated with the music that she plunged into the water and waded up to her head trying to reach the boat.
We waded through it successfully with water up to our necks, and again we found ourselves upon marshy land, with a repetition of the previous day's experience.
There are also soles, which we catch on the mud-banks and shallows at night, wading by torchlight, and spearing the dazzled fish as they lie.
The other two, by dint of swimming, wading, and wallowing through the mud, reached the shore, which was about three hundred yards distant.
It is undoubtedly a benefit to have "bits" from great writers to skim over when you haven't the time, or the inclination, to wade through a volume.
No one held a watch on him; but when at length he waded ashore he was complacent in the knowledge that he had made very good time.
The lake was shallow near the shore which meant a fearful period of wading before taking the baptismal plunge that would restore one's general equilibrium.
He presented in perspective the torrents of blood and seas of trouble through which the colonists had waded to plant themselves in the new world.
As it was ebb-tide he could not land, but so eager were the men to explore the country, that they jumped overboard and waded ashore.
I am fiddling away at the preliminaries of my pictures, a disjointed and desultory period through which one has to wade to get at one's large canvas.
The ford reached, the ponies waded in till the boys had to cross their legs in front of the saddles to keep from getting wet.
The sun may wade all day through murky clouds, but he will pillow his head at night on a setting couch of vermilion and gold.
The three adventurers stepped over the side, and, carrying the canoe, waded up a slope of rock until they were well above the water line.
Gaping, they watched the rope drawn in until Grant and Lander, lifting Lelia Barker between them, rose to their feet and waded to the bank.
After wading through a multiplicity of bogs, I at length found myself in a tolerably clear country, and my feet felt better from the moisture.
It was a picturesque body of men, that in single file waded in the snow under the burdened balsams, and crawled over the white-topped logs.
By the time they were in the breakers again Dan had joined Tom and Nelson, and all three waded out, and dragged the boat up.
One sultry day I was wading in the shallows after crabs, when the Governor's messenger came drifting in, all impatience at the lack of wind.
She untied a hamper of garments which she had carried upon her head, and, tying up her skirts above her knees, waded into the stream.
The cavalry and artillery crossed at once by the ford, as well as a portion of the infantry, the latter wading almost to the armpits.
Wading across the creek, I thrust my walking-stick, which was almost four feet long, into the orifice over its entire length without reaching the end!
For four days they kept to one of its banks, sometimes cutting a way through dense undergrowth, at others wading in the clear shallow stream.
I have seen moose feeding on the tough old lily stems and wading after them when the ice had skimmed the edges of the pool.
And, when the ship attempted to approach the landing at night, it ran aground on the bar, and the men were forced to wade ashore.
They were so pretty to look at, while promenading over the meadows, wading in the ponds and ditches, or standing silently by the river banks.
The camp was situated on a plain surrounded by forests and swamps, which rendered it impregnable, because none could wade through that treacherous marsh land.
He would be wading across bogs, through rivers and swamps, through unutterable and deathly places, singing some songs, and thinking of the golden city.
As soon as it was out of sight the girls waded the brook and, hastening back to the fork of the road, took the homeward trail.
In eight hours the bold traveler and her guide had walked, waded, and clambered some eighteen miles, and attained an elevation of fully eighteen hundred feet.
In these garments he has apparently lain in the heather and waded through the waters; but there is no evidence of his having ever brushed them.
Thus, wading and punting, they forced the vessel through the passage until they came within a few yards of the patch of dry land.
As they walked towards the gate where the car was awaiting them, they passed lakes where waded and swam many birds of brilliant plumage.
As he went round to examine it, he found the old ford-horse wading about in the water, cropping at the weeds which grew on its margin.
One of two things must be done: either wait until the waters receded sufficiently to enable the rescuers to wade to the clump, or make an immediate dash.
He took off his shoes and stockings and rolled up his trousers as high as he could; then he waded in and began a thorough search.
The fact is that the highly-cultivated man tends to find himself mentally hampered by his cultivation, to wade in a sea of glue, as Tennyson said.
Regardless of their clothes, which were of light weight, easily dried, they ran toward the lake, wading in until it was deep enough to duck under.
With trousers rolled up, the people waded into the shallow water and sought for the mussels in the mud and sand on the bottom.
Save the solitary heron, wading as of old in the lake, not a bird was to be seen, not an insect buzzing about the leafless hedges.
Certain sounds told them that at least a goodly portion of the outlaws were returning, and silently they entered the water and waded away.
Two of the men waded through the water, tepid as new milk, to where Stern lay fast-bound, lifted him easily and carried him ashore.
As for Jack himself, he got one youngster clinging about his neck and another perched upon each hip, and then waded off with the rest.
The porter touched his hat briskly, and as we turned out at the gate, I looked back and saw him already wading among the shrubs.
Passed a number of men wading in the water up to their necks, and spearing the ground with poles armed with a single barbed spike.
As it was impossible to cross it, we had to wait, however impatiently, for the rain to subside sufficiently to allow us to wade through the water.
I had no hope of landing him if he took that course, because one could neither pass the rod under the boughs, nor wade out beyond them.
Before embarking, Dick, tucking up his trousers, waded into the water with his hand-net, and soon caught an ample supply of small fish for bait.
We paddled, and I had to wade in several times, far above the part of my legs to which it was possible to roll up my trousers.
The feet of some of these birds are partly webbed, so that, if necessary, they can change their mode of locomotion from running and wading to swimming.
For the raft was gone, and she couldn't have waded back anyway, and we didn't know how deep the moat might be in other places.
"Just listen to the rain and snow coming down together this minute; and the slush on the sidewalk is so deep you have to wade to school."
The point where the boys entered was thickly grown with cypress and covered in considerable part with shallow water through which they waded.
The colonist who was my companion was obliged sometimes to wade along in the river, dragging the boat after him, for half a mile together.
More poppies among the grass and grain contrast with whole acres of heavy-headed deep crimson clover, in which the hungry cattle wade to their knees.
"This is worse than wading through Carolina swamps waist deep," he exclaimed, as he trudged along, dragging his weary feet and mud-freighted boots after him.
Forty boats were moored in the shallows of the river, and the men waded through the water whilst the others were carried to the boats.
And we saw him dismount, fling his bridle to an orderly, and lifting his sword and belt above his head, wade straight into the ford.
The sun shone from a cloudless sky, and having put on my warm rubber boots, I waded out through the deep snow to the woods.
No need to wade through history to remark the character of survivals and recurrences, to note where the echoes die or where the reverberations gather fresh volume.
The priest, without a word, tucked up his garments to the waist, took the daring outlaw upon his back, and gravely waded across the stream.
It had a very pretty effect; about one hundred men wading through the river, some in kilts with poles and spears, all very much excited.
After an hour of wading we emerged into broad sunny daylight at the home of the five cascades, which fall from a semicircular precipice into three basins.
Dick waded out into the pond again and for half an hour explored with his feet for the reptile he was after, but all in vain.
Many of their pursuers had waded into the water shaking their fists, but the sea was rough, and they could not reach the pier.