dry-shod

How To Use dry-shod In A Sentence

• Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves. Galapagos
• A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
• A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet; and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod
• A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid, which is only what they call a tidal islet, and, except, in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or, at the most, by wading. The Ontario High School Reader
• Getting to Shenavall bothy dry-shod is almost unheard of, and we didn't fancy our chances.
• It's a magical sort of dry-shod crossing that's less apt to occur on a whitewater river like the Madeira, which flows too fast and heavily for such general meandering.