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    1. I talked to you about this when we swam at that beach on the West Island


    2. He swam in that water a minute, remembering the girl from the north who OD's on the shonggot tahlmute made


    3. The bartender sighed a wall of bubbles and swam up to the highest shelf, about thirty feet above, where he fetched a crystalline bottle glowing so brightly blue-white that she almost needed sunglasses


    4. a little as the pounding in his temples overwhelmed him and stars swam in front of


    5. " Tig’s head swam a little hearing that and the sound in his ears, the rushing waves came back


    6. The sea was as cold as ice but I enjoyed every moment to the fullest as I swam out, to the isolated strand


    7. As the android swam in space toward it, he saw the ship because the video that its android's eyes provided to the Angel who animated it, could also be projected to the crystal ball on his desk down here in the chaparral below Gengee City


    8. wolves, slept in the dens of lions, flew with birds, and swam beside sharks


    9. He took half a pace forward, stumbling a little as the pounding in his temples overwhelmed him and stars swam in front of his eyes


    10. My head swam in the warm and scented damson velvet night of ultramodern Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport

    11. "He said they swam the Ohio together


    12. The sun beat down on my stinging forehead and from somewhere nearby I thought I saw Alexis wave but then he swam from view


    13. They had known each other before they swam that river, but that was the defining moment of their friendship and something they would always have together


    14. They were eighty one and seventy nine when they swam that river


    15. His mind swam at the numbers


    16. He swam carrying the seemingly lifeless corpse with him


    17. smoky from the inadequate ventilation, and his head swam


    18. All the while he swam in an ecstasy so intense, so perfect he never would have believed living matter could reach it


    19. The room swam into focus


    20. realisation dawned, and the world swam before his eyes

    21. My eyes swam with tears, but focused enough to see Ash smiling at me


    22. My vision swam when I looked Asmodeus in the eyes


    23. She swam into the whirlpool,


    24. Her eyes swam with tears as she looked up at Russell, who simply stared back at her in shock


    25. Rumblings of snores were heard as the moon swam over the horizon


    26. Tears swam in my eyes as I hugged and kissed her


    27. H’s big blue eyes widened and swam with tears


    28. Raven found himself watching, fascinated, engrossed in the way she swam through the air with ease


    29. The pounding of his heartbeat and the roaring of his blood became too loud for him to cope with and his head swam in the darkness


    30. The vision that swam before his eyes was not a pleasant one: he kept seeing the

    31. Were they just to walk up to the gates and ask for the Amber Globe to be handed over? How would they gain access? How many guards were there? What monsters and demons would they face? How big was the globe? What size was the serpent that held the globe? Was it just a serpent’s head? Was it a full size statue perhaps tens of cubits high? Was there a plinth on which it stood? Was the storyteller in Baram trustworthy and accurate? What did the writing inscribed on the strange sword mean? Was it the same as on Anduin’s sword? Was Anduin telling them the whole truth and all that he knew? Why did the Illeander guard slay his wife? How did he get that far? If Cruzel attacked Illeander so soon, what if they were there when it happened? Halon’s mind swam with uncertainty so much it hurt


    32. ” And thus he tells the story of how he swam the "mighty Apies River" which caused us much laughter


    33. Pink swam in the whites of her eyes, as if she had been crying


    34. It swam in and out of focus and he couldn’t make out what time it was


    35. She heard it as if from miles away, and her head swam in a miasma of pain


    36. Kay’s vision swam into focus


    37. If he swam quickly he should be able to reach it with no trouble


    38. Darkburst swam with strong strokes, his back bumping along the roof of the tunnel, guiding him through the darkness


    39. The pain of the charge stabbed through her heart, ripped through her soul, and her vision swam from the tears that welled up in her eyes


    40. His old man swam the river, but only once, and with a couple of King Scouts rowing a rented dory alongside as he stroked across

    41. His head swam, and sweat popped out around his eyes, and he just puked, and puked, and puked


    42. Goldfish swam beneath the bridge and a fountain gurgled from a pile of rocks


    43. He patrolled the shores but wouldn’t approach until she was bare, whereupon he dropped anchor, stripped and swam ashore, demanding she towel him dry, paying particular attention to his erect penis


    44. He swam across to them, pulling Lyra behind him, supporting her chin in his hand


    45. ” He apologized as Brendan’s eyes swam back into focus


    46. The Wyverns swam effortlessly to the shore


    47. Bao swam closer to Odin, she whispered softly


    48. When had she been in Livyliar? It all swam before her in pieces of memories


    49. I went to the club, played three sets of tennis, and swam a mile


    50. jumped in and swam to the other side












































    1. He went for a long swim in the brisk water and found them still sound asleep when he got back


    2. One that, when alive, was probably aching to swim upriver and spawn with some lady eggs


    3. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set


    4. She could swim right inside and thru the hallways toward the control console


    5. Lucy could swim in his eyes forever, she felt, as she gazed at her own


    6. Anyway, I don't know if the would-be groom believed me; however, we agreed to meet again two days later and go for a swim at “a nice, isolated beach in Kavouri”, as George suggested


    7. Lucy could swim in his eyes forever, she felt, as she gazed at her own reflection in the deep ruby fire of his timeless stare


    8. counterintuitive, until you’ve learned how to swim in the


    9. ’ I replied, going on to tell him about the mishap with the barge and how we had to swim for the shore


    10. My aunt and uncle began chatting about the crazy obsession the surfers share for beach life and I knew it wouldn't be long before he'd start hinting that it was about time I learned to swim, even though we had long ago agreed that I would only go with them to a beach as long as I didn't have to go in the sea, which I never did because I hated the water, the salt and the cold, and also I hated being so thin

    11. Every time we went to the beach he would suggest it was time he taught me to swim and I'd refuse to move


    12. The Aegean offering a breathtaking chance of an irresistible morning swim, laying calm down between an old brown tailor's shop with its bizarre array of postcards, newspapers and magazines, and a similarly modest one-story taverna - the perfect local


    13. I began to tell her about Yiannis the taxi driver, Kostas at the hotel, my swim and my singing on the ferry and although she nodded and shook her head at all the appropriate moments, I could tell her mind was elsewhere


    14. It was a short swim to shallow water, one neither of them had a problem with


    15. Can't swim but I could probably get to about two meters if I take a deep breath


    16. ‘There is a hole in the hull, the barge will sink – you need to get all your belongings and swim for it


    17. My clothes are heavy to swim in and the flow of the water strong as I try to fight my way across to the bank


    18. 'What's the matter? You can swim can't you?' She knew I couldn't swim


    19. We didn’t have time to go there but he says there is a small cove where you can paddle or swim


    20. The following year, we tried swim lessons again

    21. Even if they did have to swim out thru the palace sewers, she wasn’t letting Yellelle get away from her unless she chose to blink out


    22. "Yes, two of them are without gravity where humans swim with flippers on their feet


    23. “I cannot transfer information in the system we swim in at better than half the speed of light,” Ava said, “but I understand what you’re saying, it’s not the information that’s throttling the speed, it’s the electron


    24. He managed to swim towards the shore and grab hold of a sturdy branch


    25. Early years at school … no, further back than that … fragments of rooms she can barely recall swim in her consciousness


    26. He tried to swim but started coughing and gasping for air


    27. Embarrassed that he fell into the water and was too drunk to swim


    28. They could swim in the river, they could climb trees, they could bury for hidden treasure, and they could even build themselves a tree house so they could come back here again and again and enjoy it


    29. to swim every day in the summer


    30. can swim just as fast through syrup as he can through water, and comments from

    31. the water for a swim, followed by a game of table tennis


    32. Otherwise, the only ways into the keep were to float or swim


    33. The previous day had been pure luxury, warm with a cooling breeze, a swim before lunch and an afternoon nap to settle my stomach down


    34. Then a longer swim in the channel like pool finished with a long back stroke then a shower and finally I dressed for dinner, and it was suburb


    35. swim? Now their concern turned to fear and they began


    36. She might agree, if you could teach the boy to swim


    37. It was deep enough in the middle for a good long invigorating swim, and he availed himself of the opportunity


    38. "A swim? The pool wasn't activated


    39. The hour was just starting when women and small children were allowed to swim


    40. Next, she had him do it on his back, gently supporting his legs and shoulders, then letting him swim for a second on his own, then nudging him up as he started to drift lower

    41. But if it’s absolutely necessary, a good captain should know how to swim


    42. The water resembled liquefied silver, but it was thin enough to swim in


    43. “Wait, the water is an empath? What happens if you swim in it?”


    44. “I don’t think the water would mind if you take a swim


    45. He smiled as he thought what the king’s reaction would be if he should find out that his nephew deemed a swim in the river more important than a luncheon!


    46. There’s a lovely secluded pool to swim in and behind that cascading waterfall is a large cavern


    47. We often used to swim and play there when we were kids


    48. “It’s not sink or swim here


    49. The four girls in the water then return the float to its original mooring, drop both anchors overboard, wash off any tell-tail signs that a car has been there, and swim to shore


    50. Thrown down once more, then to swim up again, and this was it














































    1. · Regular, active exercise such as swimming and running, raises our heart rate and may greatly reduce hardening and blockage of the arteries, a condition known as arteriosclerosis that is a major cause of heart disease and stroke


    2. David rose to his feet and, with the world swimming in black spots, he reached out


    3. John chokes, tries to keep swimming, but he is exhausted


    4. Swimming strong and sure, the man pulls John to the surface


    5. I had gone swimming first!” he excused himself


    6. Nonsense; he was well-dressed and his hair was nicely combed; he had not gone swimming


    7. To the east they have constructed a big tank, which receives water from the spring and serves mostly as a swimming pool


    8. Days pass by, without much fun: We have already visited the church of Saint Mavra and enjoyed swimming in Alykes


    9. This morning we went on an boat ride around the island: Picturesque caverns with blue, crystal waters; white arched rocks looming over emerald waves; swimming in the open sea near the Cave of Keri


    10. My head was still swimming with the confusion and the shock of the move

    11. the edge of the cairn swimming


    12. We watch as the swimming crewman dives time and again trying to find Joris


    13. Again the river was full of people dredging muck where it accumulated, or swimming where it was sandy


    14. But her reins are firmly in my grasp and, hauling myself closer to her, I start swimming towards the shore


    15. It isn’t easy swimming one handed … holding onto the reins is awkward and my legs keep bashing into Sefir as the current of the wasteg throws me against her side


    16. And there were snakes, all over, in the water swimming round the yacht


    17. The trout can hover against the edge of the stream right where the friction causes the water to slow down, making the swimming easy


    18. We sit by the fish tank watching the enormous goldfish swimming around and seeing which of us can come up with the most inappropriate name for the fish then giggling like maniacs at our suggestions


    19. All for a nasty little bug picked up whilst swimming in a lake!’


    20. with four kids, living out in the country with a swimming pool and a horse ranch

    21. Harry sat, his head swimming, “Sir, I shall do my best on my final examinations to reaffirm your confidence in me in this matter


    22. He spent a while just swimming there, or was it just in Desa? He watched the party as a movie and sank deeper and deeper within it, until he really WAS in this ancient building in some alien civilization at an extra-terrestrial party


    23. Manny was swimming in receipts and cash register tapes organising them for Mrs Liu


    24. And right now as I dictate and try and edit, Malia is screaming bloody murder in the house and the two dogs are barking up a storm around the swimming pool because we have company swimming


    25. be endured before they got to the swimming pool at that


    26. boys - invisible behind the nearest wall of the swimming


    27. tennis, swimming, and generally relaxing


    28. we occupied), a swimming pool (that was frustratingly


    29. Perhaps they’d even have a swimming pool, if


    30. serene waters of the swimming pool – hoping for oblivion

    31. Then there was the swimming pool


    32. son and daughter had haunted the swimming pool as


    33. replete with a swimming pool


    34. ‘I’m almost tempted to risk swimming, rather than


    35. Vasy took to swimming like a sprat hatched in the sea


    36. swimming underwater with Nerissa


    37. For a captain, swimming means your ship’s been sunk


    38. swimming had given her a good appetite


    39. It couldn’t be that she’d gone around him to gain permission for the swimming lessons


    40. First the swimming and the chance to walk beneath Apollo’s sky, knowing she could do this every morning from now on, then finding the ingredients for her salve, then the interesting things the men discussed that night

    41. She knew how much Vasy enjoyed his swimming lessons


    42. He felt he was swimming through


    43. I dreamed that I was swimming along the


    44. gym with my dad and we went swimming


    45. Somewhere in the swimming torment


    46. A syringe that lay there, with a purple liquid swimming in its cylinder


    47. A green liquid was swimming inside the cylinder, and a plastic cover was guarding the needle


    48. I won the swimming competitions every year among my classmates


    49. The goon in uniform, the Naud, was beginning to waver; his mind was swimming with fantastical images


    50. To be fair, much of this criticism is justified: his laboratory comprises a workbench in the corner of his garage, and his training consists of a City & Guilds in woodwork and a Bronze swimming certificate














































    1. "Kwathwain's deep, the sun swims and stays red down there


    2. She swims in a water of space and time,


    3. As though understanding my problems, she swims closer, nudging my arm with her nose


    4. With an effort, I manage to throw one arm round her neck, swallowing a fair amount of water in the process, but once there, it means she can support me as she swims strongly towards land


    5. Bent double with stomach cramp, I blink as the room swims around me and, as soon as it is safe to do so, I sit on the bathroom floor, my head between my knees, panting


    6. His head swims


    7. He swims in darkness as his pupils flick up into his skull


    8. It was only about nine li each way but after all the forced marches, hard rides, infiltration maneuvers, and long swims, it was not easy


    9. hands in the midst of them, as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim, and he shall bring down their pride together with the


    10. Colors swim like fish, in and out; one swims among them, holding out wavering arms to balance, to move by

    11. The Star that swims beneath the tears


    12. At the swims for women only,


    13. The Holy Spirit jumps into the water, swims to the bottom of the


    14. ocean floor, picks him up, and swims with him back to the shore where


    15. The mouth shuts and Archan swims to shore


    16. He finds it and swims back to the surface


    17. No longer able to stand and have the water not over his head, he swims and tries to remember how to solve the puzzle at the same time


    18. The fish swims in the water but is unmindful of the water;


    19. Only, he really swims with the whales, doesn’t just read poems to them


    20. Heat swims into my cheeks and my vision spins

    21. They then went the same day to sell to an antiquary an old rusted sword that Lady Jeanne had found in a submerged cave during one of her frequent swims


    22. ‘’There are also stories that say that Lady Jeanne swims nearly naked when she goes to fish on the coast


    23. The bones of this myth are special: the flesh of other myths swims on them


    24. It’s what Hamlet feels as he swims toward his death, and what we feel as we swim along with him: that we belong, that we are somehow a


    25. when he swims out to find her


    26. But it has been proven and confirmed by deliveries in water that a newborn baby, when lowered into pool, swims like any other animal


    27. But when a human enters nirvana, paradise, that moment when the soul joins God, figuratively speaking, is the same as if a human swims like a dolphin in the ocean of this infinite divine love


    28. a circle that swims in the form of eight on all the open seas


    29. For instance, when the young duck hatches it soon rushes to the water where it swims with amazing skill and finesse


    30. Let’s think of this moon, this great body which swims in space, this mass which is thousands times bigger than the most sizable mountain on earth!

    31. She unrolled it gingerly as if afraid that the yellow parchment would crumble in her hands, slowly she began to read the words; And it shall come to pass, the Hunter will meet the girl who shall be his salvation; And Tethys, Empress of the Oceans shall bind herself unto her that she need fear nothing that swims in the depths or flies upon the surface of the waters


    32. providing fish, than being a road for shipping, the place where one swims at beaches


    33. While his body is burning and the boat sinks, a snake quickly leaves the boat and swims towards the monk’s house to make it its permanent home


    34. ’ Interrupting, she retorted, “My daughter, may I remind you that the stage you are now is the age a woman either swims ashore or sinks deeper in her delusional self-realisation and urge for endless sensual craving


    35. Eating whatever grows or swims nearby—this is barbaric


    36. Tank Region : Slowly swims all over the tank


    37. Tank Region : Hides a lot and swims near the bottom or near cover


    38. is a reproductive strategy where the female fish drops the eggs as she swims and the


    39. If there is a pool nearby go for swims as often as you can, swimming is one


    40. If you ask how can there be something even less than the empty space of our Universe: ask a fish; what is water? The fish does not really understand the water it swims in: it senses the water it swims in as merely something it travels through

    41. Encased inside its own reflective separate awareness; the human animal has never managed to develop any larger contextual perspective or understanding of the abstract reality it swims in called civilization


    42. He never swims


    43. The Vatican swims in gold and riches, while vast numbers of people starve and suffer


    44. Wet fly-This fly swims just under the surface of the water


    45. Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,


    46. The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through


    47. All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main


    48. I can say that I’m filled with remorse over the four dead tourists, but in fact what swims inside me is neither dread nor sadness, but relief


    49. My head swims


    50. I frown up at him, and my head swims with rejection



















    1. We have admired the panoramic view of the city of Zakynthos from the hill of Bochali, and swum in the wild waves of Tsilivi


    2. Alan could have swum miles in the river after hiding under a rock to stay out of sight of the IR thru darkness


    3. "Over a million and a half crossed the Ohio in my generation, I would have swum the Potomac if I lived that long


    4. feasted, romped and swum happily until the car was fixed,


    5. She’d never swum in a natatorium before, so she hadn’t expected that this would be the custom


    6. As a young girl, she’d swum naked in the sea with her cousins and her brothers


    7. As things settled down we began to swum back towards the beach when I heard Johnny exclaim


    8. “Come on lads this is shit let’s get back on shore before we catch galloping gut rot or worse”, and we lengthened our stroke and swum back to shore


    9. Well I will tell you something my heart skipped a beat or two and the room swum hazily and for the first time in my life I thought I might faint


    10. Dawn hadn’t swum for years, and Alex found it hard to do more than a slow crawl supported by Sheena

    11. The tunnel walls seemed to pulse in time with his heartbeats as he thrashed his way forwards, swimming as he had never swum before


    12. possible second, after having swum too close to the centre of the


    13. “I’ve, uh– I’m– How shall I put this? I’ve never swum in the love canal,” he said in a rush


    14. There was no way she could've swum all the way here


    15. ‘This is the magicalist spot I’ve ever swum in,’ whispered Robert, to the nodded agreement of everyone else


    16. Just as the rock pool below the waterfall was the most idyllic spot they’d swum in, so this view eclipsed all others and it was only the sound of distant voices that forced their departure


    17. They had run barefoot across the white sandy beaches, had swum in the sun warmed sea and later with their children had made sandcastles with moats and ate icecreams, which melted in the heat of the sun


    18. The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms


    19. The tracking team had swum both with and against the current, yet they could not find where that vampire had vanished


    20. I swum and held both the children at the riverbank

    21. I put my hanging bag on my back and swum the river


    22. It was not as shallow as when I first swum in it


    23. In Vadnagar, I was told that Modi as a child had swum across the lake braving crocodiles!


    24. had swum in worse


    25. drunk, swum over to the island and cut off the heads of the


    26. but it wasn’t from there; he felt like he had swum in that sea


    27. She must have swum out to it


    28. Shoals of small fry swarmed around the hulk and as Wan Lung approached he could see that some skittered urgently through the water inside the vehicle as well, having swum in through the windows that were open, or at least those he could see that were not closed


    29. "Well, hell, he couldn't a swum over, now could he?"


    30. I had swum out to the floating pontoon in the middle of the lake and was sunning myself in

    31. Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, after twelve years of absence, had all of a sudden jumped on his back in the street as he was going to dine in town


    32. Morel watched the sun sink from the glistening sky, leaving a soft flower-blue overhead, while the western space went red, as if all the fire had swum down there, leaving the bell cast flawless blue


    33. "Could you have swum so far?"


    34. "Let us see," said he, "I have swum above an hour, but as the wind is against me, that has retarded my speed; however, if I am not mistaken, I must be close to Tiboulen


    35. When he had swum some distance from the shore he called


    36. He had swum a good deal as a boy, but that was many years ago


    37. When Morry had swum back to the dock, the boys helped him out of the fetid water and made their way upstairs into the rickety shell house to take their showers and get their own tastes of the Hudson


    38. He had swum to Java and fled into the mountains, only to be hunted down


    39. And mightn’t this sense of being treated like a teenager account for his history of acting like one? There was a time before the separation when he’d swum down to a place so deep inside himself it almost wasn’t in contact with the adult world


    40. It was a face that was in an entire stage of collapse; as if the occupant, the mind behind the apparition, had run and swum a thousand miles and was now sinking to die

    41. Add up all the rivers never swum in, cakes never eaten, and by the time you get my age, Will, it's a lot missed out on


    42. But Tomás had swum in blue rivers on Earth, with strangers passing on the road, and eaten in strange houses with strange people, and his weapon had always been his smile


    43. Tom hadn't swum for at least twenty years, and then that was only in the river in Little Weirwold


    44. So long-winded was he and so unweariable, that when he had swum farthest he would immediately plunge again, nevertheless; and then no wit could divine where in the deep pond, beneath the smooth surface, he might be speeding his way like a fish, for he had time and ability to visit the bottom of the pond in its deepest part


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    Synonyms for "swim"

    swim swimming float drown dip plunge bath dive

    "swim" definitions

    the act of swimming


    travel through water


    be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom


    be dizzy or giddy


    be covered with or submerged in a liquid


    move as if gliding through water