Synonyms for freshet

And, John, I did not tell them anything except that the freshet had swept me away.

At that time the water, clearing after a summer freshet, was fairly low.

During my return down the river, it was in a freshet, and we went headlong.

"You might have to wait till next spring for a freshet," he said cheerfully.

The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.

It may be imagined how piety intensifies in a freshet, or in a heavy gale of wind!

Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood.

Just now the spring freshet had subsided, which meant that the river was clear of ice.

Some wanted a freshet, some wanted a drizzle, and some wanted a fog.

So, if my boy ever saw a freshet, it naturally made no impression upon him.