"The flowing tide" fails him, but side-stroke and breast-stroke ❋ Various (N/A)
With a swift, sweeping side-stroke he reached Hibbert's side, just as he was sinking for the last time. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He rose almost instantly to the surface, and with a long, swift side-stroke followed after the motor craft, which was now gaining speed. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)
Then turning from left to right, he employed the side-stroke. ❋ Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
It was, of course, Weston, who supposed himself far enough from camp not to be troubled by spectators, swimming with a powerful side-stroke upstream. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
Then I whirled both hands above my head, leaped out from the quartz shelf, and felt the chilly flood part before me until, instead of dull green transparency, there was daylight about me again, and my left hand swept forward through the air with the side-stroke which in younger days I had taken much pains to cultivate. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
Dick Rendal covered the distance between them with a superlatively fine side-stroke, once or twice singing out to him to hold on, and keep a good heart. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
The Collector, having swum out more than half a mile, turned and sped back, using a sharp side-stroke now with a curving arm that cleft the ridges like the fin of a fish. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Kindly lead me into the water once again and I'll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy. ' ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
For the rapier, be it understood, is designed to thrust and not to cut, so that no man wielding it ever thinks of guarding a side-stroke. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Such a side-stroke might, with some propriety, be advanced in favor of the oppressed, who cannot ❋ Unknown (1887)
The water, which had flowed through the sunniest of the sunny plains of France, was surprisingly warm, and Conyngham, soon recovering from the shock of his dive, settled into a quick side-stroke. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)
He changed his front, so to speak, in a very unexpected manner, and just as we were beginning to exult over our man's certain victory, he lay over on his side, and, with a peculiar, jerky side-stroke, began to work his little carcase through the water at a wonderful pace. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
However, he did not seem at first to be any the worse off for he took a slight lead of Jim, going through the water swiftly and easily, with as pretty a side-stroke as any fellow's at the school. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
When both turned at the top of the reach, Chesney gave up his fanciful swimming, and, to our alarm, settled down to a side-stroke, which for a time looked powerful and effective. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
The position as he made the side-stroke was convenient, though not inspiriting; for as his cheek lay on the stream he could keep one eye upon his pursuers, who were now coming rapidly on. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
And now I saw that he realised his peril, for he raised one arm above the water and waved it to me, lowering it again directly, and swimming with the side-stroke, so that it seemed to me that he was drowning, for his head was nearly hidden by the water. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The fame whereof being noised abroad, a sturdy old farmer, with a good deal of shrewd sense and mother-wit in his brains, and a fine, indirect way of hitting the nail on the head with a side-stroke, was questioned in a neighboring village as to the facts of the case. ❋ Gail Hamilton (1864)
I even eat brunch one morning in the pool; the food is served on a big cane tray that floats about, more or less following me as I perform a mad sort of side-stroke while holding my coffee aloft. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The pages in which Mamie Pocock gives her appointed and, I can't but think, duly felt lift to the whole action by the so inscrutably-applied side-stroke or short-cut of our just watching and as quite at an angle of vision as yet untried, her single hour of suspense in the hotel salon, in our partaking of her concentrated study of the sense of matters bearing on her own case, all the bright warm Paris afternoon, from the balcony that overlooks the ❋ Henry James (1879)
