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So, quickly rolling up my trousers, I seized the axe and waded in toward the floundering creature. "You needn't be afraid to go right up to him," said Euphemia. "So long as he don't turn over on his back he can't bite you." I had heard this bit of natural history before, but, nevertheless, I went no nearer to the shark than was necessary in order to whack him over the head with the axe.

Now she plunged beneath the surface, which glowed in the sun like a vast lake of quicksilver: now she stood in a shallow spot, where the water rippled no higher than her middle, and combed out her dripping tresses; then she waded further in, and seemed to rejoice in allowing the little wavelets to kiss her snowy bosom.

The two men were a source of inspiration their followers could not flag and hesitate while under the influence of their example. Toward the end of the long march a decided fall of temperature added ice to the water through which our dauntless patriots waded and swam for miles. The wind shifted northwesterly, taking on a searching chill.

His heart sank within him. He swam and waded back, feeling about in every direction with frantic eagerness. "Paul Pringle godfather where are you?" he shouted. Suddenly he felt an arm; it was Paul's. He lifted him up, and, with a strength few could have exerted, dragged him under the companion hatch.

But he shoveled the rear wheels out, waded back to the tiny island of solid ground and gathered an armful of brush, which he crowded in front of the wheels, covering himself with mud thereby; then he tied the tow rope he carried for emergencies like this, waded to the Ford, cranked and trusted the rest to luck.

Perennial groves, dazzling white cottages snow-flaking them with beauty; a beach with afternoon bathers; and two straggling piers that had waded out into deep water and stuck fast in the mud.

It was both snowing and blowing, and we waded through the damp, heavy, new snow, and slipped and stumbled over the old drifts. I soon saw that there was a big job before us; and I had not expected any pleasure excursion. The first accident was when I fell through between the ties over a culvert up to my chin.

I descended and waded into our late dormitory with a candle in my hand and the water nearly up to my waist.

And Margy and Mun Bun did not know what was going to happen to them, or they never would have done this. "That's a nice little island over there," said Mun Bun to Margy as they waded along. "Yes, it's a terrible nice little island," agreed his sister. "An' we can camp out there an' have lots of fun." "Oh, Mun Bun, catch me! I'm sinking down in a hole!"

And on the next day the Governor encamped on the other side of the river, four leagues from Bilcas, and although the day's march was short, it was nevertheless toilsome because it was entirely a descent almost all composed of stone steps, and the troops waded the river with much fatigue because it was very full, and he set up his camp on the other bank among some groves.