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  • YOUR FAVORITE TROUT streams may be running bank-full and turbid, but melting ice means that ponds and small lakes are ready to roll right now.

    The Nine Best Places to Fish a Pond During Ice-Out 2007

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    The Hour of the Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • The Shirki was a swift, turbulent river rushing southwestward through rocky gorges and canyons, and there were few places where an army could cross at that time of the year, when the stream was almost bank-full with the melting of the snows.

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • The Evergreen River that ran past the town was already bank-full; and all manner of terrifying reports kept circulating among the panic-stricken people of that section of the State, adding to their alarm and uneasiness.

    Afloat on the Flood Lawrence J. Leslie

  • I can see him yet, on bitter days, standing alongside the track in a heavy pea-jacket and Napoleon boots, a sealskin cap drawn snugly over his straight black hair, watching, ordering, signaling, while Number One, with its frost-bitten sleepers behind a rotary, tried to buck through ten and twenty-foot cuts which lay bank-full of snow west of McCloud.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • I've be'n a residenter in these parts fer it's goin 'on twenty year, an' I never seen the like -- bank-full an 'trees an' bresh so thick you can't hardly see no water.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

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  • Said of a stream when full to the brim. --A. Porson's Quaint Words and Sayings of South Worcestershire, 1875

    February 6, 2018