I undressed in the water and struck out with a strong, single-
overhand stroke, crossing the current at right-angles.
He watched her take the water, diving cleanly, like a boy, from the end of the little pier; and he watched her strike out with single
overhand stroke, her henchmen swimming a dozen feet on either side.
At this point the current ran close to the shore, so that we were immediately in deep water, and, to my intense satisfaction, Victory struck out with a strong,
overhand stroke and set all my fears on her account at rest.
And yet, to see her swimming the sharp quick English
overhand stroke, and getting somewhere with it, too, was--well, I understand anatomy and athletics and such things, and yet it was a mystery to me how she could do it.
Chingachgook, which means ‘Big Sarpent’ in English, old John Mohegan, who lives up at the hut with me, was a great warrior then, and was out with us; he can tell all about it, too; though he was
overhand for the tomahawk, never firing more than once or twice, before he was running in for the scalps.
Boylike, Harvey imitated all the men by turns, till he had combined Disko's peculiar stoop at the wheel, Long Jack's swinging
overhand when the lines were hauled, Manuel's round-shouldered but effective stroke in a dory, and Tom Platt's generous Ohio stride along the deck.
With the natural need of a strong rough man in anger, to do something forcible, he now clutched his knife
overhand, and struck downward with it at the end of every succeeding sentence.
When one is in one of those villages it seems spacious, and its houses seem high and not out of proportion to the mountain that
overhands them--but from our altitude, what a change!
A pure display of muay thai skills from both competitors ended with a right
overhand by "Magic Man" Gierszewski that put the lights out on "The Warrior" Cowley.
He took each red-vector right-handed,
overhand, and hit ceiling balls, especially if the opponent moved from the outer margin of the gray circle toward the "O2" spots on the court.
Thurman swung a wild
overhand left and that allowed Pacquiao to lunge forward but he could not get his shots to land.
"He usually relies on that big
overhand right and lately he hasn't had any success with it.