However, they are expert swimmers and divers and will, when alarmed, sink quietly back into the water, swimming long distances with only the bill above the surface of the water.
All are active and swift swimmers and well suited for a life among the rocks and swift water of our smaller streams.
Both the swimmers clutched it at the same instant, and then it was Benny began to fear he had attempted what it would be impossible to carry out.
There will always be some good swimmers in the party, and probably others who can not swim at all.
Mules are good swimmers unless they happen, by plunging off a high bank, to get water in their ears, when they are often drowned.
A few strong swimmers might carry a rope across, thought Major Falkins, and attach its loose end to the bamboo stakes which went up at the very edge of the trench-embankments, provided they could live long enough.
Major Falkins stood by, coaching the three swimmers as a trainer coaches his jockey when the saddling bugle sounds in the paddock.
But these sham swimmers are notably the exceptions.
Even good swimmers in such a sea contented themselves with going in only up to the armpits, waiting for the breaker to gather them up, then pass and leave them in flat, clear water ready for the next.
The swimmers exhausted would come up to rest in the surf, then enter again.
They are excellent swimmers and clever divers, pursuing with extraordinary rapidity the fish on which they feed.
Like the Penguin, the Manchots are excellent swimmers and incomparable divers, and their coating of down is so dense that it even resists a bullet; it is consequently difficult to shoot them.
But chasing these graceful swimmers at the foot of their rocky retreat is mere trifling; the dramatic and dangerous incidents occur at the summit of the steep, giant cliffs.
Many other swimmers dotted the surf that morning and groups of people in light clothes sat about on the shining strand.
One by one the other swimmers left off chasing and made for shore.
Her attention was presently attracted by a frolicking group of swimmers coming toward the raft.
All the other swimmers had gone ashore now and were making for the bath houses, while loiterers on the beach were scattering to the tennis courts and golf links or the morning concert in Cocoanut Grove.
Both swimmers reached the ball at the same moment, struggled over it, and then that reckless, inhuman stranger tossed it further out to sea.
A physical feeling of turgescence and congestion in that region, such as swimmers often feel, probably increased the impression.
When one piece got overloaded it meant the best swimmers trying their luck elsewhere.
The swimmers immediately made for the land, and, drawing only boots on their feet, dashed for the cellar in the chateau.
Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best ofswimmers are drowned there.
There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are the old parties.
Almost at the outset the swimmers had vanished in the fog astern.
As the minutes passed the box became more and more of a burden, until it threatened to drag both swimmers under.
A certain number of the swimmers were eventually picked up and saved, but by far the greater proportion perished in the wild tumult.
The surface of the white-capped river became visible then, and gradually the heads of the swimmers came into view.
These fins all help to make the fish the splendid swimmers that they are, and are large and strong, or small and weak, according to which part of the water the fish inhabits.
Many of the fish dived quickly below to hide in some convenient spot, and the more rapid swimmers took to their fins with great haste.
Indeed, the salmon is one of the most rapid swimmers in the fish family, and it is said that one salmon could make a tour of the world in a few weeks.
Such were the thoughts that were rushing through my brain, as I saw the black swimmers approach.
Strong swimmers were observed separating from the rest, and forging out into the open water.
I saw the foremost swimmers struck upon the head, or pushed away by violent "jabbing" from the oars and handspikes.
The sharks, having sated their appetites, had let most of the swimmers escape.
I'm going out on the springboard," August Stout announced, stepping cautiously out on the board from which good swimmers dived.
Here we are," and at that moment the first pair of swimmers climbed carefully into the boat, one from each side, so as not to tip it over.
Roy and Freddie, with the basket of wet clothes between them, marched first; then came the two pairs of athletes who proved they were good swimmers by pushing the heavy oars safely to the drifting boat.
It is harder to succeed than one imagines before trying the experiment himself, for the swimmers are obliged to use their hands and feet constantly to keep themselves in place.
They will spend the afternoon in surf-bathing, and all of them will perform feats in the water that would astonish the best swimmers in other countries.
Miss Mackin was watching theswimmers and she quickly observed those most proficient.
The water is a matter of particular responsibility, and being good swimmers would not excuse me in case of accident.
The swimmers but appeared posing themselves on its highest edge by dexterous movements of their hands and feet, keeping just at the top of the curl, but always apparently coming down hill with a slanting motion.
The shore was thronged with spectators, and the presence of the elite of Hilo stimulated the swimmers to wonderful exploits.
He told me frankly he had sent out two good swimmers to observe the stranded vessel.
A sack race in which the swimmers were encased in a bag up to the waist caused endless mirth as, hampered by the bag which did not allow them the use of their legs, they floundered along, struggling and splashing.
Water rats, nuthin' but derned water rats," said the old man, as his kindly eye followed the three swimmers pulling rapidly away towards the shore.
It was Seawall against the Point, or even more than that, for Peters was one of the best swimmers at the school he attended in New York City.
The three swimmerssat and dripped water over Captain Silas' seats.
He thought it strange that no one of all those swimmers came to help him, but he had been trying so desperately to do his duty that he had not looked up.
Then came an obstacle race in which the swimmers had to climb over obstacles placed in the course.
Out of their dressing rooms ran the six swimmers and lined up on the edge of the float.
Burton tried to show them just how it was done, and was in the water and out of it half a dozen times coaching, but neither of the swimmers caught the idea.
You're a wonderful good swimmer, Mas' Don; but the wonderflest swimmers can't swim for ever in clothes.
Quite a swim even for as good swimmers as we are, when you consider we have to carry our equipment.
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