He himself, in the end, took to the water, and with much difficulty, partly by swimming, partly by wading passed it, but in the passage lost his shield. "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", - Clough, Arthur Hugh

The hour of sunset found them wading through sand that had lately been stirred by a storm. "The Boy Slaves", - Mayne Reid

" Well, as I am cool now," Dodds said, getting up and wading to the bank, " I think I'll go and put on some dry things. "A Tale of the Summer Holidays", - G. Mockler