Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 211893 |
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A. E. France Albert medal Amateur Swimming Association arms art of swimming Athletic boat body bottom Bournemouth boys breast-stroke breath captain centre forward championship chest committee competing competitions competitor course distance divers drill drowning E. C. Danels England enter the water feat feet floating foot foul free throw front front-rank Glasgow goal goal-keeper goal-posts Greasley handicap hands head heat held Horace Davenport learner legs life-saving Liverpool lungs Manchester Swan match medal meeting method miles mouth movements National Cyclists North London Nuttall once open water opponents ordinary over-arm pass pastime patient person play player plunge plunger Pollokshields Portsmouth position practice prize propelling race rear-rank referee rescue river rope round Royal Humane Society rules saving side sink sport Stalybridge stroke Surbiton surface swam swimmer swimming bath Swimming Club taken throwing the ball tion turn water-polo whilst Zephyr
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Page 160 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 6 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy : But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, " Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 14 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 8 - But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by months of rain : And fast his blood was flowing; And he was sore in pain, And heavy with his armor, And spent with changing blows: And oft they thought him sinking, But still again he rose.
Page 6 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Page 8 - For me, degenerate modern wretch, Though in the genial month of May, My dripping limbs I faintly stretch, And think I've done a feat to-day. But since he...
Page 8 - And thus of old thy current pour'd, Fair Venus ! how I pity both. For me, degenerate modern wretch, Though in the genial month of May, My dripping limbs I faintly stretch, And think I've done a feat to-day. But...
Page 6 - Help me, Cassius, or I sink." I, as ^Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake ; His coward...
Page 6 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he : For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to me, 'Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?
Page 244 - Breathing and the heart's action cease entirely ; the eyelids are generally half closed ; the pupils dilated ; the tongue approaches to the under edges of the lips, and these, as well as the nostrils, are covered with a frothy mucus. Coldness and pallor of surface increase.