1 It restored his soul to have Sam Clark trustingly bellow, "Better come down to the lake this evening and have a swim, doc."
2 He was polite to poor Maud when they all went down to the cottages for a swim.
3 Maud, it seemed, was slightly dizzy from the swim.
4 The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
5 We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
6 But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 7 Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
8 After my swim, while I was playing about indolently in the water, I heard the sound of hoofs and wheels on the bridge.
9 Edna had attempted all summer to learn to swim.
10 She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
11 Though no fish, 'The Long Rifle' can swim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp.
13 Before the depth reached his middle he was halfway over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim the remaining hundred yards.
14 We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.
15 Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf agin when dey was gone.