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Meanings of white swans in English

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Usage of white swans in English
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She waved her right sleeve and white swans swam on the water.
Folk Tales from the Russian
2
The women, looking like white swans, are now rowed to the shore.
Mohammed Ali and His House
3
They are as white swans in the dusk, thy white hands
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
4
Whole fleets of snow- white swans are constantly sailing through the waters.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
5
And swimming on the lone lake were four white swans.
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
6
And the ferry-boats are like great white swans, with long soft throats bending backwards.
The Californians
7
Eva, your foster-child, hath by her wicked magic changed them into four snow- white swans.
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
8
And little Hnossa heard that by Urda's Well there were two beautiful white swans.
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
9
There was also a large lake on which white swans swam lazily through the water.
Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz
10
Soon he saw three white swans on the lake.
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold...
11
Our fear is that such initially white swans, medium-term would turn to black, it said.
Reuters
12
Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans swimming lightly over the water.
The Child's World: Third Reader
13
They were making in, the lovely white swans.
1492
14
To dream of seeing white swans floating upon placid waters, foretells prosperous outlooks and delightful experiences.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
15
Farther on, a flock of white swans floated.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
16
Sometimes he could see white swans in them.
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