It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals"

Usage examples of swan.

I see more of Charlie than he sees of me, for I am now thoroughly dug in at my stable clinic, and from my private hideout and post of observation in the tower -- yes, there is even a neat little tower on this archidiaconal horse-palace, to echo the larger tower of the same design on Glebe House -- I see him swanning around looking at once medieval and thoroughly of the moment, a priest among his people.

When we take the field our banner will not be any monkish device, but the silver knot of Stafford and the swan of Bohun.

This table was of palisander wood and supported by the semblance of a swan.

He had been watching Lone and Swan and the dog, trailing certain tracks through the sagebrush down below, and when Lorraine rode away from the Quirt they were in the wagon road, fussing around the place where Frank had been found.

But one summer day he steered it off the gorge road on a return trip from a wood run to Conejos Junction, was somehow thrown clear onto a ledge, and from that spectacular vantage point he watched his rattletrap do a swan dive into the Rio Grande eight hundred feet below.

But Francoise, her counsellor, induced her to decide on the white suit, pointing out that the Rosier would look like a swan.

Well, tae be quite honest, ah wis awright, in fact ah wis like a fly in the maist deliciously toxic form ay shite ye could get, jist swanning roond the record shops checkin oot aw the Eurotechno stuff.

Followed a solo dance by Ravinski in which he gave full vent to the anguish of the bereft lover, while now and again the swan swam statelily by him.

They had, by this time, drifted past the Steelyard and were converging on the Old Swan Stairs, just above London Bridge.

She was tall and proud, and sat on the trotting strich as calmly as a swan on a pond.

They glided through the water like giant swans, large eyes looking down into the sunstruck sea for schools of fish.

The Swan tavern was not hard to find, for it had an open door from which slanted a broad band of light that illuminated a white Swan on a scarlet ground on a board surmounting a pollarded willow.

It was fine cambric, trimmed with lacework, with the swan of House Courcel embroidered small in one corner.

Keeping her face, that was small with sickness, but not uncomely, firmly lifted and fronting ahead, the young woman sailed on past the market-place, like a black swan of mournful, disreputable plumage.

We heard a whirring whoosh like an entire flock of swans whistling through the air overhead.