On streams subject to freshets they may be two or three times that height.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
It came to her as innocently as the same impulse comes to the doe when the spring freshets are seeking the river, and as innocently her lips met his in their first kiss of surrender.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
"You can't do much about the fall until after the autumn freshets, anyway, and there's a good deal you can't get at until the frost sets in," he declared.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton