overarm stroke

With two overarm strokes he reached him, and lifted his face out of the water.

The moment his head broke water again, he struck out in a powerful overarm stroke.

He stepped forward and swung the belt in a full overarm stroke across the wriggling body.

With an old-fashioned but powerful overarm stroke he began to swim steadily out towards the point, two hundred yards away.

His overarm stroke ended in the trailing branches of a thorn tree hanging over the storm waters.

When he could see her masts clearly against the stars he began swimming again in a powerful overarm stroke.

With overarm strokes, The Shadow reached the buoy and gripped the nearer side.

Sean swung his cane in a full overarm stroke onto the man's head and sent him tottering backwards into the arms of those behind him.

Looking around quickly as he strained for air, he spotted Boris's bobbing head almost immediately and with a few powerful overarm strokes came up behind him.

As he looked up from the plunging overarm stroke he could see two in the air at once, one almost down to the water, the other still high up.

Relying on the beast's frenzy to confuse and distract any other of the deadly reptiles, he lashed out towards the far bank with a full overarm stroke.

With Zair plunging into the next wave right beside him, Robinton emerged, propelling himself forward with a strong overarm stroke.

Both men began to strike out with the strength of panic, first with a clumsy overarm stroke, then as their sodden clothes pulled them down with a gasping short-armed breast-stroke.

Echegorgun remained in the water till they were out of sight, cruising up and down with an easy overarm stroke, only skull and arms showing, with a faint flurry where his heels touched the surface.

Near the seabed his plummeting stopped and he twisted and played with the fish, then surfaced and began a seemingly lazy, easy, but very fast overarm stroke for the shore that Alban Caradoc had taught him.

It smoothed out the waterfalls and the chutes, so that instead of dropping down them and plummeting below the surface of the pool beneath he slid down them with a smooth rush, holding his position in the face of the wave with a few quick overarm strokes or a kick of the legs.