"Natation" Quotes from Famous Books
... swam in those delightful summer baths in the Seine, that are so majestically called "Schools of Natation," and became past masters in "la coupe" (a stroke no other Englishman but ourselves has ever been quite able to manage), and in all the different delicate "nuances" of header-taking—"la coulante," "la hussarde," "la tete-beche," "la tout ce ... — Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al |