"Deep water" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... o'clock he heard loud cries from the St. Clair Street bridge. Looking up, he saw an excited crowd gathering. The object of their excitement was a little boy who had waded out on a shallow bar above the bridge until he had stumbled into deep water and was being carried away by the strong current. Paul caught one glimpse of him as he disappeared and springing from his plank he swam out with a strong, steady stroke to his assistance. The crowd on the bridge shouted loud cries of encouragement. As Paul reached ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... able to dive and bring up something from the bottom, at a depth of ten feet. He's got to swim twenty yards carrying a person his own weight and show that he knows three different ways of carrying a drowning person in deep water. He's got to show that he can do at least three of the ways to 'break' death-grips made by a drowning person. And besides that, he's got to know all ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... sir—not a bit of coral to be seen anywhere, deep water right into the beach. Fine place, sir. And look at all those breadfruit trees—just in back a ...
— Edward Barry - South Sea Pearler • Louis Becke
... was determined to be a swimmer, and at each attempt he made a wider stretch into the deep water, swam around, and then back again ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
... time about literature, but every little while she would get me into deep water by quoting some author or work that I had never read. I never realized what a hopeless ignoramus I was till I heard about the scores of books that had made her shed the scalding, and yet that I had never, never read. When she looked at me ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
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