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That's why Steeler natation is the best and most loyal fan base in the world. — Blog updates
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." — Gawker
It was an unfavourable time of the year for such an unprecedented feat of natation, but the Hatfield Champion was confident of success. — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891
It seems difficult to believe this, looking at this wide and heavy stream--though, to be sure, I did once see a young horse swim across the St. Lawrence, between Montreal and Quebec; a feat of natation which much enlarged my belief in what quadrupeds may accomplish when they have no choice between swimming and sinking You cannot imagine how great a triumph the virtue next to godliness is making under my auspices and a judicious system of small bribery. — Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839
Colonel Mayo records one daring performance in natation which is thoroughly characteristic of the lad. — Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works