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The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.
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1
The roar of the
freshet
awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.
2
They leaped in over the table like a
freshet
over a dam.
3
Yet the
freshet
rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away.
4
We have had a drought so long we can stand a
freshet
.
5
Here they washed themselves and drank their fill at the in-falling
freshet
.
6
What, then, could be the origin of this sudden and singular
freshet
?
7
It's saved us that much, but the
freshet
water won't last long.
8
Now the ledges were buried deep under the immense volume of the
freshet
.
9
One of them occurred in Ohio at the time of a spring
freshet
.
10
The stream was in a
freshet
,
and not to be waded.
11
Dry beds of streams should be avoided; they are subject to sudden
freshet
.
12
The street that never sleeps was tonight a human spill-way, churning in
freshet
.
13
With the added danger of
freshet
water, the work went on.
14
Therefore, take it altogether, I consider that
freshet
a capital thing.
15
There is a
freshet
,
and the ferryman was drowned last night.
16
A
freshet
had to float out thirty million feet of logs.
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