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The seventh day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming.
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 34-36). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).)
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Heaven is not like flying or swimming,
but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare
(Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 20-21). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Mother and Son.")
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
(Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), U.S. critic. Notebook entry, 1928. Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985).)
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And seniors grow tomorrow
From the juniors today,
And even swimming groups can fade,
Games mistresses turn grey.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The School in August.")
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and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst into nimble-
Swimming tadpoles.
(Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Death of a Naturalist (l. 13-15). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one's inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother's grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.
(Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), U.S. president. The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928, p. 48, Stanford University (1928).)
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Whenever parents become overly invested in a particular skill or accomplishment, a child's fear of failure multiplies. This is why some children refuse to get into the pool for a swimming lesson, or turn their back on Daddy's favorite sport.
(Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century), U.S. journalist. Child-Wise, ch. 2 (1994).)
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Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer missionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.
(For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State (The WPA Guide to Nebraska), p. 298, Viking Press (1939).
Describing early life in Meadville.)
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