"Overhand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dodging behind the oaks, vaulting the fence into the adjoining field, to the consternation of half a dozen sleek, sedate Alderney cows, tore Wheedles, his pursuers determined to overhand him and administer the drubbing incident to the ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... but through it all Phil Forrest hung grimly to the side pole, taking a fresh overhand hold, now and then, as his palms slipped ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... swimming with one long overhand stroke, and holding up something on his other shoulder, but following scout law, he stopped not to meditate, but pushed the boat off ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... course you did! One plunge, and a few magnificent overhand strokes. . . . (She notices his peculiar expression, ...
— The Noble Lord - A Comedy in One Act • Percival Wilde
... from the village who was worse than the first, so we gave up, one by one and dawdled up to the village, picking up some dead duck on the way. Here is a jotting of our retriever—a native who slung a bundle of dry pithy sticks under one arm, waded out, and swam along somehow, with an overhand stroke, not elegant but fairly effective.—I also made jottings of buffaloes in the water, all but submerged, water lilies, little white herons, and women in bright colours washing clothes in reflections! What subjects for pictures—rather shoppy this for you? The ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
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