paddled

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Hats were waved to her, handkerchiefs flaunted and then she paddled -- paddled straight ahead and came into the finish first!

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  • They paddled, they swam, I joined them and sat out, and then it was somehow evening, and the happy melancholy of physical repletion coupled with too much sun settled over us. —  King, Laurie R - Russell-Holmes 08 - Locked Rooms
  • He paddled a kayak this morning after feeling the water and deciding it was a bit too chilly. —  Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
  • The kid would get called out of home room, paddled, and then given 1 week of detention.
  • We paddled, therefore, quickly and cautiously on, but without any apprehension of being found out. —  Hurricane Hurry
  • If, on the arrival at the fork of a river, he wished to let his followers know up which fork he had paddled--say, for instance, if it were the right one--he would shove a long stick into either bank of the left fork in such a way that it would point straight across the channel of the left fork, to signify, as it were, that the channel was blocked. —  The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
 

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