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They will have swum 1,990 miles upriver and climbed 1,054 metres into the mountains.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2018

Or we'll be having no salmon-fishing to-morrow, for you'll be over-sleeping yourself, and the fish will have swum to other waters, getting tired of waiting for you.

From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.