Seeing that all she could do was to sit and support her she got out of bed and waded across the floor to the fireside to find her clothes - Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald

She waded out a step or two toward the surf facing it - The Firing Line by Robert W. Chambers

43 This great poet and philosopher the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity found that he waded but the more out of his depth and that he lost himself in the thought instead of finding an end to it - The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown