Next morning, early, we rose and went for a swim in the river; after which we dressed and had breakfast.

But her eyes belied her voice, for they were swimming with tears.

We had not reached it, however, when we saw him enter the water, and swim to the main land, and glad enough he seemed to be when he had regained the protection of his native forests.

Once he tried to swim across the British Channel with a tame eagle on his shoulder, and couldn't do it.

This was a consummation that Tom had not bargained for, but there was no alternative but to swim for the shore, dripping like a rat from a flooded sewer.

"The introduction of vessels that swim under water," he said, "has in my opinion entirely done away with the utility of the ships that swim on top of the water.

Great was their pleasure when they found I could swim like themselves, and I felt most grateful to those poor heathens for the promptitude with which they dashed in to my rescue."

Then flying out thirty or forty yards, more or less, according to the character of the bottom, he alights with a dainty glint on the surface, swims about, looks down, finally makes up his mind, and disappears with a sharp stroke of his wings.

He was swimming through the water as fast as possible.

" In reply to this rigmarole I asked for food, since my head was beginning to swim from my long fast.

"No," returned Jack, "and I am rather afraid to swim under there.

"John Wesley Farwell, Jr.," said that young man to himself, "this thing is not your discoverybut how does that bit of Keats' go?" 'Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacificand all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien,' There you have it!

"Do you see, Philip, that you can't swim against the stream?" said Mrs. Maxa when she was sitting alone with her brother after dinner.

When I spin round without a stop And keep my balance like the top, I find that soon the floor will swim Before my eyes; and then, like him, I lie all dizzy on the floor Until I feel like spinning more.

A fortnight is usually the extent of time necessary, and they may even be sometimes permitted to enjoy the luxury of a swim at the end of a week.

Swimming around the boat unobserved, he had come up behind Frank and now reached up and grabbed Frank by the coat.

There were no games on the greensward, no swimming in the river, no excursion to the Malvern cherry groves.

And now, looking a little over the bo'sun's shoulder, I discovered that these hideous things were coming up out from the pit-like pool in the bottom of the valley, and, suddenly, I was minded of the multitudes of strange fish which we had seen swimming towards the island; but which had all disappeared before reaching the shore, and I had no doubt but that they entered the pit through some natural passage known to them beneath the water.

" They continued to swim toward the ship.

The men attended upon the latter, swimming by their side, whilst they drifted to the island where the crew were.

Come, noble Earle, let your kind presence grace Our feast prepard for this obdurate Lord, And give some comfort to his sorrowfull bride Who in her pitteous teares swims after him.

A small creature swims near, and touches one of the feelers.

And far below I saw the blue sea twinkling like a dazzling mirror, and the gulls wheeling about the sheer chalk wall, and then I thought of that bloated carcass of a sheep that had fallen from this very spot perhaps, and in an instant felt a sickening qualm and swimming of the brain, and knew that I was giddy and must fall.

Then she stretched him across her lap and laid into him with her slipper till he howled as if he was a small boy who had gone in swimming on Sunday and his mother had just found it out.

They might swim over it, and yet not see the thin, flat, brownish body pressed down on the bed of the sea.