half-swimming

Updated: June 12, 2025

Sometimes, surrendering themselves wholly to sport and play, they formed little groups of two or three; and now one group, and then another, would race, half-swimming, half-flying, from bank to bank or from the rock to the salmon "hover" at the lower end of the pool.

Alfred Wellesley Rees - Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain

I toiled away, with the spray spitting in my face, and sometimes great sheets of it breaking over my body, until I feared it would drown me toiled on till the water grew so deep and the sea so strong, that I could not longer keep my footing upon the rocks; and then, half-wading, half-swimming, I brought my last stone to the heap, and hoisted it up.

Mayne Reid - The Boy Tar