He contrived one dark night to lower himself from the cabin window, and with the tide at flood swam off undiscovered.
One of Street's men now swam ashore and brought off a boat in which they all embarked.
As soon as he was in, one of the negroes on shore began to blow a pipe, on which the negroe pledge who remained in the boat, suddenly drew Mr Wormes sword, cast himself into the sea and swam on shore.
As they swam about near the ships, they raised such a commotion in the sea that we discharged all our artillery to drive them away.
For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide.
I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground; I arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
He was Elder, not merely of the Brethren's Church, but of that ideal "Community of Jesus" which ever swam before the vision of the Count.
The monster left a greasy wake behind him, as he swam lazily along, blowing slightly.
But though they played beside our buoys by thousands, not a herring swam so low as the upper baulk of our drift.
So they swam from tree to tree, till they came to one that was so large that they could not see round it.
When a pool came in their way, the fairy swam, and Alice swam by her; and when they got out they were quite dry, though the water was as delightfully wet as water should be.
With Richard's help sheswam pretty well, and they reached the tree.
Richard, therefore, plunged into the water without her, and swam for the tree.
Richard; and they swam to the next, and then to the third.
Her eyes swam in an adorable moisture and grew very human and appealing.
The whole party now halted on the edge of the river, while two men swam across with one end of the long rope.
A short time afterward the men arrived, and, regardless of crocodiles, they swam toward the bodies.
They entered the river and swam down the centre of the stream toward the rock.
But when Hugh swam out yesterday morning, something came tumbling down inside me.
There was just one shrimp of a boy on it, and Hughie went straight in, like a duck to water, and got him off and swam back with him.
But as he swam he knew he had made a mistake in not taking off his shirt and trousers also and giving himself an unimpeded use of his limbs.
For the next five minutes, for he was fighting the tide, he just swam and swam.
He swam into three valleys more, he surmounted three ridges of water, and lo, the boat was on the peaks directly opposite to him, and from opposite sides they plunged into the same valley together.
He swam straight out from where your left foot is pointing.
He turned once more and swam steadily across the current.
I swamacross that creek last night in my clothes on account of you, and I figure you've got a right to tell me why.
The one who now swam toward them was evidently a stoker--a powerful creature.
While Peterkin enjoyed himself in the shallow water and in running along the beach, Jack and I swam out into the deep water and occasionally dived for stones.
Three weeks after the conversation narrated in the last chapter I was standing on the quarter-deck of the schooner, watching the gambols of a shoal of porpoises that swam round us.
Instantly a number of the savages plunged into the water and swam towards us; but we were making so much way that they could not overtake us.
He slipped over the side with a musket in his left hand, while with his right he swam ashore and entered the woods.
I promised to pay the strictest attention to his wishes, and swam with him to the outlet of the cave.
Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety.
The chief had swam off to us with the things for trade tied atop of his head, for them chaps are like otters in the water.
The crew was lost--all but three men, who swam ashore.
He didn't stop for a moment to reason about the situation, but obeying the mere instinct of self-preservation, he swam to the ledge.
He swam in on a wave, and as it subsided, he clung to the rock.
And so it was that just as the first moonbeams kissed the Smiling Pool, out of the Laughing Brook swam the merriest party that ever was seen.
He swam faster than Jerry, and in a minute he shouted in delight.
And what do you suppose he was thinking about as he swam along?
Then he swam over to Jerry Muskrat's house and warned Jerry.
Billy climbed up on the Big Rock to watch, and Grandfather Frog slowlyswam back to his big green lily-pad to wait for some foolish green flies for his breakfast.
Jerry held his breath as the stranger swam past and then climbed out on the dam.
Slowly Jerry slid into the Smiling Pool and swam over towards his favorite log.
So Grandfather Frog dove into the water and swam out to the middle of the Smiling Pool, on his way to Jerry Muskrat's house.
In the night some of the men swamover and stole a big canoe, with which they returned.
The bullet splashed the water on his naked skin, whereat he slipped off his horse, swam to the empty canoe, and got into it.
Sevier swam well in troubled waters, and he profited by the storm he had done so much to raise.
He gave this messenger a fair shirt for a reward, and so returned him: who rolled his shirt about his head and swam very speedily.
The fishes kept constantly near the surface, swam languidly, and snatched mouthfuls of atmospheric air.
Did I not say to you a little while ago that the universe swam in an ocean of similitudes and analogies?
Hal came up under the overturned canoe and rapidly swam from under.
Hal called vociferously and swam rapidly, but the nearer he got the stronger was the conviction that Big Boy was not as he should be.
Suddenly such an uncanny feeling overpowered him in the midst of this strange element that with might and main he tore asunder the network of plants and swam back to land in breathless haste.
He struck out with hands and feet and swam about in a circle until he had made quite sure from what point he had entered the water.
He swam slowly out, lifting every now and then his arms out of the water so that the drops trickled down and sparkled in the moonlight.
One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.
One of Beowulf's men took aim at a monster with his arrow, and pierced him through, so that he swam no more.
Water-beasts swam after him and battered him with their tusks.
Mrs. Severance, the friend Louise had brought out for the week-end, he supposed; she swam remarkably for a woman.
He swam well enough himself and couldn't give her two yards in the hundred.
Just opposite the palace, across a lake, lived a Troll, who had seven silver ducks which swam on the lake, so that they could be seen from the palace.
So it became a great deep lake; and because of that one drop, the horse found himself far out in it, but still he swam safe to land.
So, when he had got his sight again, he went down to the shore and made signs to the lions that they should all lie close together like a raft; then he stood upon their backs while they swam with him to the mainland.
But when he came to the well, there lay the duck, and swam about backwards and forwards, just as the Giant had said.
Then the Prince did not know how to get over it, but the Wolf bade him only not be afraid, but stick on, and so he jumped into the lake with the Prince on his back, and swam over to the island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
