As Akka approached the swans she paused to see if the geese who followed her swam in a straight line, and at even distances apart.

He used to say he had seen a witch "swam on Polstead Ponds," and "she went over the water like a cork."

At the same moment that I startled this brood out of the rushes a moorhen swam slowly out, accompanied by her mate.

When she tried to talk to him herself her brain swam

Below them, farms, meadows, villages and crowds of wondering country folk swam by in an ever-changing panorama.