How To Use Freshet In A Sentence
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So when some professional friends of his called him up, one day, after a feast of reason and a regular "freshet" of soul which had lasted two or three hours, he read them these verses.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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After another couple of minutes she extended one leg to reach over and dip her foot in the freshet.
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Yet the freshet rose higher than that, and swept the bridge away.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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For example, freshets can displace individuals, wash out nests, and locally eliminate populations.
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The spring freshet and clean up in the fall of 1897 electrified the whole mining world.
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Reduction in freshets and minor floods would reduce transportation of plant propagules.
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A trail of choked snickers followed the whispers of explanation trickling back through the mob of townspeople like a small spring freshet.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Much as one might want to avoid an annual freshet of legalism, it is very hard to argue that there is not.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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Understanding the variability of the freshet as well as its sensitivity to climate change will be critical in the future in areas with a mining heritage, such as much of the Yukon, Alaska, and Russia.
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The last time that happened was in 1894 when a spring freshet sent water surging through the bridge at Eburne and over the north side of dykes.
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Natural freshets, prolonged infusions of freshwater from the rain or rivers, can kill oysters in a matter of weeks, and Fox suspected that something similar had destroyed his crop.
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Major floods and annual freshets continued to pummel the structure with debris.
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As spring freshets go in British Columbia's Central Interior, the year 2000 was relatively sane.
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Summer freshets flush and erode the sand, keeping the ridges moving.
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This was perhaps due to the fall-spawning habit of the brook trout; the eggs of the spring-spawning rainbow and cutthroat were more likely to be washed out by freshets following spring snowmelt.
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Below the football players and dog-walkers of Marine Park is a culvert that, in theory, still carries the freshet which once thinned the salt water of the Stromme Kill.
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She needed to feel that thing begin to happen, suddenly, that faithworthy feeling, that newness, a freshet of life behind the eyes.
Underworld
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This "macadamized" surface was curved to permit drainage, and extra precautions were taken in localities where spring freshets were likely to cause damage.
The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond
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It wasn't until a concrete wall was installed upstream that the destructive periodic spring freshets could be controlled.
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Drifts, or mud, or freshets do not suspend our social intercourse.
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We have little save tradition respecting storms, freshets, and earthquakes in the olden times.
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A meeting about the 2007 freshet and potential for flooding was held by the Township of Langley and the City of Abbotsford at Trinity Western University on Tuesday, May 15, and was attended by more than 400 residents.
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The springs and freshets which had been loosed in the course of the city's excavation had also been trained, and streams ran cheerfully down rough, natural-looking beds carefully inset into the smooth floors of passages and halls.
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Remember, the Fraser cutthroat fishery is hugely impacted, if not terminated, when the freshet begins.
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The freshets also provided enough water for large fish like sturgeons to maneuver their way upstream.
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The "freshet" above, an archaic term today, usually referred to a river overflow from a spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains, although, as in this case, it was sometimes used to refer to flood conditions at any time of year.
Weather leading up to the Civil War
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Particularly high spring freshets would flood the quarries and put off the opening of the season.
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'freshet' is coming down from the up country to visit us.
Ten years on a Georgia plantation since the war,
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Nitrogen concentrations, which had remained level before the freshets, have risen, according to the data.
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The annual spring snowmelt freshets of the Fraser River system pose the principal flood hazard to those occupying its floodplain areas.
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There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
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A probable shift to a more pluvial system with smaller and less intense freshet and ice breakup is very likely to decrease the frequency and magnitude of natural disturbances, and reduce the ability of flow systems to replenish riparian ecosystems, particularly river deltas.
Key findings, science gaps, and recommendations for freshwater ecosystems in the ACIA
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The barken structure was moored by means of a long rope to a tree a considerable distance from the water, so that in case of one of those sudden rises that sometimes took place, it would not be carried away by the freshet.
The Hunters of the Ozark
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This was mainly due to increased flow and suspended sediment during summer and fall freshets.
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By the 'freshet' bein 'over I judged he meant the tide bein' out.
The Depot Master
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Thousands of citizens of Grozny who lost their homes as a result of a freshet last year have not gotten new flats so far.
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It was evident that, what in the language of the country is called a freshet was commencing.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times
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She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
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I know, howsomdever, they're mighty big freshets thur, as I hev sailed a skift more 'n a hundred mile acrosst one o' 'm, whur thur wan't nothin' to be seen but cypress tops peep in out o 'the water.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire