Eventually, his webbed feet got so badly worn that he dropped to only average in swimming.

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What you don't see is under the water the webbed feet doing like this (demonstrates).

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Webbed feet and hands, of course, are a common trait of swimming animals from frogs to whales.

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He moved as he did, slowly and half-gliding while cymbals and screaming trumpets announced his presence, because he had ten pounds of weights in each webbed foot.

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The fine, fragrant talc dusting on the dresser, the brush webbed in silver hair, the fifty-year collection of black handbags stuffed in the top of the closet- it was all too much, too much.

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