“A poor country for the land-owners!” said Joe, once more vigorously resorting to his skill in the art of natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference

It was an unfavourable time of the year for such an unprecedented feat of natation, but the Hatfield Champion was confident of success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891] Reference

Je me rappelle avoir eu exactement la même sensation après un cours J+S de natation… c'était il y a plus de dix ans… mais je m'en rappelle comme si c'était hier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retour de cours de formation J+S judo — Climb to the Stars] Reference

Now, as natation is generally effected by repeated and vigorous lateral flexions of the body, we ought to find the segmentation much more complete laterally than on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the spinal column.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

That's why Steeler natation is the best and most loyal fan base in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

I wondered at what period of their lives they had acquired their dexterity at natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

The lads dived deep, swimming the while with long, powerful strokes, for both were accomplished in the art of natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference

The i iconoscope tiredness natation automaton a obsessionally and judicial couplet in the preceptor of watermeal and in the trompillo of the rathole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden has offended the American natation industry by claiming that the bailout package has "no swimming pools in this money.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

The bay at Skelwick was so dangerous that Father would not allow any of them to bathe there, so as yet she had had no chance of testing her skill in natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story] Reference

The fallacy builds to confusion in the discussion of J'aime la natation and I like to go swimming (303): from a linguistic standpoint all the wrong things are emphasized.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference

But, even as many sailors cannot swim a stroke, so many an inlander, born and brought up within sight of fresh water, has never taken the trouble to grasp the simplest rudiments of natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference

The last thing that Bill heard, ere sleep closed his lids, was a pious resolution on the part of Mr. Bliss to the effect that all his children should be taught the art of natation as soon as they were born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light Freights] Reference

But even had he been as accomplished in the art of natation as a pearl-diver himself, it would not have availed him in the midst of that immense sheet of water, on all sides apparently stretching to the limits of the horizon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger Hunter] Reference

PARRY, himself celebrated in his youth for his prowess in natation, has offered to present the Royal College of Music with a magnificent swimming bath; Mr. LANDON RONALD has drafted a scheme for the erection of a floating bath in the Thames for the convenience of the Guildhall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914] Reference

I have just been summoned from my task, in consequence of one of the battens which secured my little library having given way to the immoderate weight of learning that pressed upon it; and as my books have been washed to and fro, I have snatched them from their first attempts at natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Own] Reference

These bathers usually run along a high platform, considerably raised, and leap into the sea beneath them; diving down, and re-appearing, much to the amusement of each other; while a guide sits on a floating platform near, ready to lend assistance, or give instruction in natation, if required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre] Reference

I started for Paris that very night, and knocked at Barty's bedroom door by six next morning; it was hardly daylight -- a morning to be remembered; and what a breakfasting at Babet's, after a rather cold swim in the Passy school of natation, and a walk all round the outside of the school that was once ours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

“In an absurd red costume de natation; she was old and hideous too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Je me rappelle avoir eu exactement la même sensation après un cours J+S de natation… c’était il y a plus de dix ans… mais je m’en rappelle comme si c’était hier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retour de cours de formation J+S judo — Climb to the Stars] Reference

A few minutes the immense bath was full to the brim of bright, cold, sparkling spring water, into which I at once plunged, completely submerging myself for about half a minute, to the amazement and consternation of my attendant, who afterward confessed that he feared I was bent upon drowning myself, none of the Bandokolo, it appeared, possessing the slightest knowledge of natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Veld and Forest An African Story] Reference

Methinks I hear a duck abjure natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference

But skilful natation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891] Reference