Swan

• These had also changed their course, and their position to leeward now gave them an advantage Ere long the Swan was almost abreast her late pursuers, who were about a mile and a quarter to seaward; while the other three Spanish ships, with all sails set, were a mile and a half astern, but a good deal nearer in shore The sun will be down in another five minutes," Captain Reuben said, "and in half an hour it will be dark. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
• Just tell them, young man, about your mother Swan was the last to enter the kitchen, and he stood leaning against the closed door, turning his old hat round and round, his eyes going swiftly from face to face. —  The Quirt
• This Swan was a great wizard, and he was Hallgerda's mother's brother. —  The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
• While a clerk of eighteen, in a counting-house near Faneuil Hall, he published a work on the African slave trade, entitled, "A Discussion of Great Britain and Her Colonies from the Slave Trade," a copy of which, preserved in the Boston Public Library, is well worth reading for its flavour and wit While serving an apprenticeship with Thaxter & Son, he formed an intimate friendship with several other clerks who, in after years, became widely known, among them, Benjamin Thompson, afterward made Count Rumford, and Henry Knox, who later became the bookseller on Cornhill, and finally a general in the Continental army Swan was a member of the Sons of Liberty, and took part in the famous Boston tea-party. —  The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
• Ere long the Swan was almost abreast her late pursuers, who were about a mile and a quarter to seaward; while the other three —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico

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