side-stroke

He rose almost instantly to the surface, and with a long, swift side-stroke followed after the motor craft, which was now gaining speed.

Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson

With a swift, sweeping side-stroke he reached Hibbert's side, just as he was sinking for the last time.

The Hero of Garside School

"The flowing tide" fails him, but side-stroke and breast-stroke

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 Various

Then turning from left to right, he employed the side-stroke.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

It was, of course, Weston, who supposed himself far enough from camp not to be troubled by spectators, swimming with a powerful side-stroke upstream.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

Then I whirled both hands above my head, leaped out from the quartz shelf, and felt the chilly flood part before me until, instead of dull green transparency, there was daylight about me again, and my left hand swept forward through the air with the side-stroke which in younger days I had taken much pains to cultivate.

Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

Dick Rendal covered the distance between them with a superlatively fine side-stroke, once or twice singing out to him to hold on, and keep a good heart.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The Collector, having swum out more than half a mile, turned and sped back, using a sharp side-stroke now with a curving arm that cleft the ridges like the fin of a fish.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Kindly lead me into the water once again and I'll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy. '

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

For the rapier, be it understood, is designed to thrust and not to cut, so that no man wielding it ever thinks of guarding a side-stroke.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894