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• Walking, or rather wading onward (for the stream was ankle-deep) far enough to be almost beyond the influence of the first candle, he stopped again and stuck up another. —  Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
• Some forded until their feet could no longer touch the ground, after which they swam to the other side, while others paused to drink until those behind them forced them out into the stream also In a few moments the stream was alive with swimming cattle, the herd being spread out for a full quarter of a mile up and down the stream. —  The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains
• The general view of the same feature (plate XV) also shows the character of the valley of the East Verde above the ruin; the stream is here confined within a low walled canyon. —  Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262
• On the far side of the stream was the tent for the guides, the cook tent, and the dining tent, which consisted of the table described before with the big tent fly over it. —  Bob Hunt in Canada
• A light bridge in the distant wood, that bounded the furthest lawn, indicated that a stream was at hand. —  Henrietta Temple A Love Story

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