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The river, swollen with freshets from the thawing, was swifter than ever, exultantly rushing along.

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However, spring spill would be boosted, to help spring Chinook by providing something more like a spring freshet for young fish migrating to the sea.

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“The play itself is a freshet of good will, a celebration of the indomitability of man, a call to return to the earth,” the critic Mel Gussow wrote in the Times in 1979.

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All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.

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Streams and freshets ran all over the Los Angeles landscape, and Arroyo de la Sacatela coursed virtually alongside the dozen or so acres of the Bimini Baths site.

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