It could not be expected that such a beautiful girl as Sara could cross the campus several times a day, and pass unobserved by the hundreds of students who felt this to be their special stalking-ground; and finally, one morning when an unusual number of graceless young "Sophs" and "Freshes" were on guard there, she was subjected to so many stares, smiles, touchings of the hat, and half-heard remarks, that she entered the workroom with flushed cheeks and a perturbed manner which could not well escape the professor's keen eyes.
"Sara, a Princess"
Fannie E. Newberry
There had just been another of Noah's Freshes, and the low grounds were flooded all over with water.
"A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee."
Davy Crockett
I sent for some of the fishermen, who said they were perfectly aware of the fact, and that their fathers had always known of the existence of the musical sounds, heard, they said, at the spot alluded to, but only during the dry season, as they cease when the lake is swollen by the Freshes after the rain.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent