Several minutes later, half-swamped and lying against the bank in the eddy below the White Horse, Shorty spat out a mouthful of tobacco juice and shook Kit's hand.
They were nearly swamped at this time by the great seas which constantly broke over their open boats, and for some little time were separated in a fog, but by firing muskets at length found out each other's position and joined company.
Near one of the islands off the coast of Nova Zembla Barents and a boat-load of his men were almost swamped by an enormous white she-bear, which they had wounded, and secured by a rope.
The men loaded their punt with a sleigh, and had managed to reach the middle of the channel, when a sudden and violent gust of wind swamped the punt and turned her over.
He found it difficult to contain himself, for the delicious memory of their parting the night before swamped his efforts at conversation with the persistency of waves that follow one another in a rising tide.
It was quite evident that every yard of that six miles meant desperate work, with the chances of being swamped before the boat reached land.
It saved the strain of peering into the compass bowl, and in any case the boats were bound to hit the English coast, unless they were swampedor run down.
There was also a risk of the boat being swamped by the men as they clambered on board.
Some day perhaps I shall be swamped myself along with the craft.
To lower a boat with any chance of saving her from being swamped seemed now impossible, when suddenly the squall ceased.
The pain he suffered was entirely swamped by the fires of his wrath.
Swamped between the party of the Duchesse d'Etampes and that of the Senechale (the title borne by Diane de Poitiers during the reign of Francis I.
The Duchesse d'Orleans found herself entirely swamped at the Court of Francis I.
Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day.
They would have fought with the fury of madmen to retain their places in that half-swamped shell.
When the door swung back he found himself within a few yards of the swamped boat, but ten feet above its level.
Some had been driven upon the shore, others had careened and been swamped at their wharves.
They'll be swamped at the wharves, or if they should get away they'd be sent to the bottom inside a few hours.
Pierre was very fond of those old districts with their winding lanes, their tiny squares so irregular in shape, and their huge square mansions swamped by a multitudinous jumble of little houses.
To appreciate the change it was necessary to have known the filthy Rome of the past, swamped by sewage in every form.
If at any time there was any idea that it could be controlled only by those who represented names honored for a hundred years, or conspicuous by any social privilege, the idea was swamped in popular feeling.
In some of his tragedies his classic learning was thought to be ostentatiously displayed, but this was not true of his comedy, and on the whole he was too strong to be swamped in pseudo-classicism.
Sir Hugh Middleton commenced at Amwell that now venerable New River, by dabbling in which he swamped himself and secured a stream of health and prosperity to those who came after him.
Its bursting, however, nearly swamped the entire nation, for the bubble had been so extensive that scarcely any one escaped its influence, or could keep his head above water, when the awful inundation occurred.
Here he fairlyswamped his face in tears, while the archbishop turned on a couple of fountains, which came gushing through his eyes, and the meeting was literally dissolved by the practice of this piece of crying injustice towards the people.
There was a surf raging there that would have swamped twenty gigs: these five men were going of their own free-will and choice to certain death--so much had they loved the young master.
Letters on flying saucers had swamped the mail room.
Switchboards Swamped Switchboards at the Pima county sheriff's office and Tucson police station were jammed with inquiries.
She was then hove-to, a boat was lowered to tow the swamped boat alongside.
We crawled along roads blocked for miles with them, moving forward; we wormed into railroad stations swamped with the tide of their wounded.
Doubtless the unimagined flood of wounded had swamped the generally excellent service; for the moment, at least, there was not only no super-train for the French; there was no train.
It lies in returning to the system which secured a full revenue to the nation, whilst, at the same time, it prevented the minor trades from being swamped by foreign competition.
The population of the towns is again to be pitted against that of the counties, and the counties, if possible, to be swamped by an inundation of urban voters.
His mind swamped that of his friend, and made it fruitful.
It was impossible to see the work of the artists: they were swampedby the critics.
