Swam

Examples

• A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And indeed my head swam: I dropped, but a chair received me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then Hermione and Miss Bradley swam over, and they sat in a row on the embankment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Out on the lake there were flocks of grebes, small and dark, and leaving trails in the water when they swam. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There was nothing that ran or flew or even swam swiftly or skilfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The blood-red haze that presaged death to my foes swam before my eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• My head swam as I stood erect. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The world was really a wilderness where one hunted and swam and rode. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Sir Joshua swam up to them, and stood near them, up to his arm-pits in the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Filling my lungs with air, I dived beneath the surface and swam through the inky, icy blackness on and on along the submerged gallery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He swam slowly, and caught hold of the boat with his wounded hand. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Troy swam in tears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They swam silently and blissfully for a few minutes, circling round their little stream-mouth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Tarzan now swam to shore and clambered quickly upon dry land. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And she stood motionless gazing over the water at the face which washed up and down on the flood, as he swam steadily. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The words swam before her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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