The water is a friendly element to a man who is at home in it, and who knows how to deal with it; it buoyed him up, and acknowledged the strong swimmer as its master.

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.

But sea-snakes will bite only when severely provoked and are never known to attack swimmers in water.

" As this was said, boat after boat was falling, and, in two or three minutes, no less than five were in the water, including that in which Yelverton was already rowing round the ship to catch the presumed swimmer, or drowning man.

My companion was not so expert a swimmer as I was, so that I distanced him many feet, when I heard him utter a faint cry.

He dropped down, freed the good swimmer and turned him loose, then moved rapidly across the little clearing.

" "It persuades people to yield to it," said Clerambault, "instead of helping the swimmers, and bidding them struggle against it; it says: Let yourself go....

On that rock the line of the lariat caught, hooking the swimmers sharply in toward the bank.

It is only here that fish no bigger than trout kill swimmers, and bats the size of the ordinary "flittermice" of the northern hemisphere drain the life-blood of big beasts and of man himself.

Without waiting to lift the exhausted swimmer into the boat, Charlton and Gray dived.

The Indian proved the best swimmer, and ran up to the rifle that lay on the sand, whereupon Andrew turned to swim out into the stream, hoping to save his life by diving.

No, he would never reach land, wonderful swimmer as he was.

Apparently the men aboard the German vessel had decided to obey the order of the man who would save the three swimmers.

Not a shark, or a stingaree, to scare the timid swimmer or floater; not a minnow, or a frog, a tadpole, or a pollywognothing that lives, moves, swims, crawls or wiggles.

As the boy was getting close to the shore, the man waded out in the stream up to his waist, and raised his knife to stab the swimmer.

Neither was as swift a swimmer as Jack, and for that reason, their progress through the water had been considerably slower.

Stanmore could swim, of course, but it takes a good swimmer to hold his own in fisherman's boots, encumbered, moreover, with sundry paraphernalia of his art.