" The "Salmi of ptarmigan" appeared as a great wash of gravy in which portions of the much cut-up bird swam in vain for their lives.

We had wandered near the centre of the island, when three deer started up within two rods of us, and rushed whistling and snorting in huge astonishment across the island in the direction of the mainland, and dashing wildly into the water, swam to the shore and disappeared into the forest.

I tried to steady my mind upon Roland, upon his conviction that I could do something, but my head swam with the excitement, even when I partially overcame the terror.

The place swam before her.

Even as Jack had lowered himself from the hydroplane and swam across the water, the Germans in the other craft had done the same thing.

As for my breeches, which were only linen, and open-kneed, I swam on board in them and my stockings.

A German swam toward the boat.

They headed it in the proper direction, and followed the terrified animal as it swam for life towards the island on which we were encamped.

There was a clump of wide beech-trees at that place, with a fine shade and a place to lay their clothes while they swam about, splashing with their naked white bodies in the water.

It was a rich reward to the watchers of the sky when this new planet swam into their ken.

Inside the palisade the ground swam like a loch, and from the hill-side came the rumour of a thousand swollen streams.

How many thousand lines does it cost him to describe Vologesus's breeches and his horse's bridle, and how Osroes' hair looked when he swam over the Tigris, what sort of a cave he fled into, and how it was shaded all over with ivy, and myrtle, and laurel, twined together.

He swam towards shore as fast as he could, and when the shark looked around, to see if he was coming, he was safe within the line of surf.

"When I didn't mean anything except that my heartwhich is rather impressionablefeels very warmly and tenderly toward the man who swam after me.... Won't you understand, please?

The roar of traffic, seventeen stories below, came up through the open windows like the sound of high seas, and from where she sat, staring out between the pink-brocade curtains, it was as if the close July sky dipped down to meet that sea, and space swam around them.

Huge trams swam past him like glass houses, and hansoms shot past the trams and automobiles past the hansoms; and phantom barges swirled down on the full ebb, threading holes in bridges as cotton threads a needle.

She closed her eyes and her senses swam through a vast blur.

"You've escaped this time," said the drapery of her muslins as she swam from his sight.

The necessary preparations were soon made, and Kenton, after forcing his horses into the river, plunged in himself, and swam by their side.

Praises shall be offered unto thee in thy boat, thou shalt be hymned in the [=A]tet boat, thou shalt behold R[=a] within his shrine, thou shalt set together with his Disk day by day, thou shalt see the ANT [Footnote 1: The name of a mythological fish which swam at the bow of the boat of R[=a].] fish when it springeth into being in the waters of turquoise, and thou shalt see the ABTU

He swam out of the heat and fierce blaze of light into the quiet, dark waters; and then into the moon's path.

Happily this broke, and he swam under the side of the canoe and finally got on shore, but the other three were killedtheir heads were cut off and taken on board, and their bodies thrown to the sharks.

A man swam behind it and pushed it along.

Then it seemed as if the room and everything in it swam round her, and she fell into Rachel's arms.

I have swam near a mile and a half out in the sea to a ship that lay off, gone on board, got clothes from the mate of the vessel, and proceeded with them to the next port; while my companion I left on the beach concluded me drowned, and related my sad fate in the town.