We used to bathe regularly at Putney, where I was at school; and I have swum across the Thames and back, lots of times.
The eyes--he had seen them even in the dim twilight--had swum mortally in the sinking head.
The point they made for was lower down than where he had swum across; but he paid little attention to anything; and the first thing that roused him was the sudden rising of a plump of teal from the rushes.
At first our little fish felt as if she were blind also, but by-and-by she began to make out one object after another in the green dimness, and by the time she had swum for a few hours all became clear.
The Cat must have swum these rivers, as there were no bridges; but in spite of all obstacles, she made her way back to the house from which she had been taken.
When I swum two days, and was plumb tuckered out, I come to an island.
I at once swum off to the south, for there was no telling how long I'd have to swim, and as the water was sort of cool, I thought best to go south, because the further south you go the warmer the water gets.
After a while, she became so bold as to consider what a curious thing it would be if she, without any raft, should pick up some article as valuable as any that had swum the stream.
He had swum over to the house once, when the stream was higher and more rapid than now; and he could come again, if he found himself really in want of anything; so that nobody need be anxious for him.
I swum out and got aboard, and was mighty glad to see home again.
He swum to it, and as he come pushing it to the raft, the men spread to one side.
Think he wounded a couple of them; but they closed in on him and chased him into the river; and as he swum along down stream, they followed along the bank and kept on shooting at him; and when he struck shore he was dead.
So I swum down along the raft till I was most abreast the camp fire in the middle, then I crawled aboard and inched along and got in amongst some bundles of shingles on the weather side of the fire.
Lawrence felt more and more despairing until with a gleam of hope he wondered whether his uncle had swum to one bank or the other and climbed to safety.
Even if the river had been swum or forded, it would have been impossible for any one to climb up to the level platform on which the mine works were situated.
He had swum ashore at Modiug, he said, having escaped from the cabin in which the company had been confined.
Mr. Stone was swimming, slower than man had ever swum before.
He and one sailor had escaped and swum across the little inlet.
In his delirium he had swum across the narrow inlet which separated them from their enemies; his heartrending cries told of the reception accorded him.
Here it was necessary to reflect on what was best to be done, for though I could have swum across, it would have been extremely disagreeable, as I had no change of clothing, and the water was considerably colder than the air.
The man who was knocked overboard he justswum for that obelisk and he climbed up the hiryglyphics.
Good Trigueiro had faithfully swum alongside him through the rapids, and now himself scrambled ashore.
It had dived at right angles to the course it was following and swum under water to the very edge of the shore, rising under the overhanging tree-branches at a point where a drinking-trail for game led down a break in the bank.
In the morning the mules were ferried over, while the oxen were swum across.
He shook his head at Cornish's suggestion, made in halting Dutch mingled with German, that Von Holzen had swum away in the darkness.
It seemed still possible that Von Holzen had swum away in the darkness--had perhaps landed safely and unperceived on the other side.
He remembered how in his youth a man had tried to keep wild foxes on this same island, for breeding purposes, but they had whisked their brushes in his face and swum ashore.
Could I have swum with the stream and have said yes or no as yes or no were expected, I might have revelled in generous hospitality.
Then Lady Augustus stalked out of the room and her daughter swum after her.
Captains Hall and Allen had several times swum down at night through the bridge of boats with letters from the governor entreating a speedy succour.
I s'pose I oughter done so, but I changed me mind and swum to shore.
A new star has swum into the Revolutionary firmament, by name Lenin.
Stripped to the skin, just tied clothes up in a bundle, strapped it on the critter’s head, and ’cross we swum together.
He went in and in, and bimby came to a deep place, and swum right across.
Waell, while I was lookin’ into the ocean to see if I could light upon the barrel, a leetle o’ the largest fish I ever did see come and swum right close to the bottom of the sea, jest under the boats.
He told me in a whisper that they had gone down fiercely locked in each other's arms, and that there had been a struggle under water, and that he had disengaged himself, struck out, and swum away.
And I'd have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I'd a got him aboard without the soldiers.
I am an American, and if I have not swum all the way from America, I am at least as wet as if I had.
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