37 adjectives to describe swimmers

The negroes of this country are the most expert swimmers in the world, as I can vouch from frequent experience of their dexterity.

"Yet Dave can't have gone down, for he's a better swimmer than I am," was Dan's consoling thought.

Both were splendid swimmers, even with their clothes on, and, wading out until the water was above their waists, they began to swim with strong and steady strokes toward the middle of the lake, following with exactness the course of the wind.

His webbed hindfeet were twice as large as his mate's and he was easily the swiftest swimmer in the colony.

Beowulf was his name, a man of immense strength and courage, and a mighty swimmer who had developed his powers fighting the "nickers," whales, walruses and seals, in the icebound northern ocean.

Holding the screaming woman in one arm, Sir Albert nobly struck out for shore, and no doubt would have reached it, for he was a bold swimmer, had not a large cake of ice borne them down to a watery grave.

Tigers are not at all afraid of water, and are fast and powerful swimmers.

Like an ill swimmer, I have willingly stayed long in my own depth; and though I am eager of performing more, yet I am loath to venture out beyond my knowledge.

Presence of mind is indispensable in such a case, but, unfortunately, timid swimmers are too apt to lose their Heads as well as their feet.

"Ah, yes, there are many grand swimmers in my country among the coast men.

Cuffee's practiced eye alone had seen a flash of his tail, at the distance of a mile and a half; and, raising his voice to the utmost of his strength, he had endeavored to apprise the incautious swimmer of his danger.

It was that cautious wader but inexperienced swimmer, the Listening Crane.

The ultimate danger was not much to a light and powerful swimmer, and he plunged forward.

[Illustration: "OFF TORE THE FISHES, MAD WITH TERROR"] I saw a porpoiseporpusmy enormous cousin, all of fifteen feet long, crowd in midst a multitude of swift little swimmers, as if he meant to make them help in spinning him through the water faster than he could go by himself.

" "And many who wish to be thought accomplished swimmers never venture into it on that account," added Müller.

I knew she was not exerting her full strength, for she is a magnificent swimmer, but I found that I had all I could do to keep pace with her.

None of us, however, were much in the style of the "melancholy Jacques," or, with our eyes on some vigorous fisherman higher up the river, we might have begun: "And yet it irks us, these bright speckled trout, Being native swimmers in this river, should From their own limpid pools, by gay, false flies Be cruelly decoyed.

"I'm a pore swimmer, but I made up my mind either to save 'im or else go down to a watery grave myself.

The athletic young Swiss was a practised and expert swimmer, or it is improbable that even these strong impulses could have overcome the instinct of self-preservation.

He was a remarkable swimmer, and it is stated that he once swam six miles in the James River, against a strong tide in a hot sun, and then walked back without seeming in the least tired.

But the fact of the timidity is unquestionable; and we were told by a certain clerical frequenter of a watering-place, himself a robust swimmer, that he had never met but two companions who would venture boldly out with him, both being ministers, and one

Only one Spaniard, who was a skilful swimmer, succeeded in saving himself by clutching a rock which rose slightly above the waters, and there held out against the raging tempest.

The most skillful swimmer in the world cannot sustain himself in sea-foam, or in the white caps of the breakers.

Of work there was plenty, but he found time to become a proficient skater, and a strong, sturdy swimmer, to learn and take delight in outdoor sports, all of which helped to build a constitution like iron, and to give him an interest in such things which he has never lost.

" As Flavilla was a superb swimmer nobody could object.

37 adjectives to describe  swimmers