Then we jump to the landing party wading through the breakers - Somewhere in France by Richard Harding Davis

Wading waist deep through the drowned fields behind the house she gained the uplands and rushed dripping along the ridge to the next farm where as she knew a boat was kept - Children of the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts

The bank of the first river they had crossed was again reached and plunging in partly by swimming and partly by wading they boldly pushed across thus avoiding the loss of time by going round by the ford - The Three Commanders by W.H.G. Kingston