Let's wade ashore, pal, and get to work instead of talking about things better left alone.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
It seemed to him just possible that four capable seamen might keep the gig afloat close enough to the beach for one to wade out to her, though there would be a certain peril in such a proceeding.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Seeing how near it lay, I would fain have tried to wade through the sea, like the pirates, and walk along the coast; but Than-Sing, who was cooler and wiser than I, would hear of no such attempt.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot