Like the English Channel for the first time in 1875

Usage examples of swum.

Ovrth Gert burst out of the stairwell, both panting like they had swum ten miles upstream.

An outlet led directly to the river, and large trout and river-dwelling salmon had swum upstream into the lake.

He, too, had swum the mighty river, and then had carried Ayla up the slope and set up the tent.

Ayla had often bathed or swum in the cold waters of rivers, streams, and pools, even water so cold she broke through a film of ice, and she had washed with water warmed by a fire, but she had never stepped into hot water before.

They must have tipped the canoe trying to get her into it and had probably swum in, using the capsized canoe as a float to help them bring Dorothy.

He feels anemones and urchins and realizes with sudden sadness that this is the first time he has swum close enough to the seabed to sense its life, and it is almost certainly the last, and it is too dark to see.

He has never swum so deep before, but he follows the enormous chain links as far down as he can go, steeling himself, acclimatizing as the pressure wraps him tight.

Even the seawyrms had not been able to continue pulling their now misbehaving chariot ships, and they had swum back with the fleet, back out of the Empty Ocean.

The news had severely rattled Bewcastle, though, he concluded when he returned to the house with Morgan early in the afternoon, having swum in the lake himself while she painted.

He had remembered the stretch of river she had pointed out to him as the secluded place where she and Percy had sometimes swum in the summers.

After they had swum some distance he turned onto his back to return the way they had come, and she did likewise.

It was some minutes since Modesty and Willie had swum past him along the length of the pool.

She thought the entrance through which she had swum was likely tall enough that even at high tide she would have been able to swim out, but she was happy to have Mr.

She was embarrassed to be talking about this with him, which seemed silly after she had so freely swum half-naked before him, and let him put his mouth to her breast.

You could have swum to the shore, to the little beach on the further side of the rock, you could have gone up to the bathing cabins from there and so on up the steps to the top terrace and to her room.