Gliding

Examples

• This moment was one of intense interest, the huge bulk gliding as gently and easily forward as if she had been but a small boat. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And I cannot get there in less than an hour or more,' muttered Nancy: brushing swiftly past him, and gliding rapidly down the street. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They calculated that their gliding-machine, with 165 square feet of surface, should be held up by a wind blowing twenty-one miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But not without a certain uncomfortable sensation gliding down his back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Somebody came gliding along the gallery just above; it was the old prieSt. Indeed Mademoiselle shall not sit there, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The months were gliding away, and my dear girl, sustained by the hopes she had confided in me, was the same beautiful star in the miserable corner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Their next step was to try to find some method by which they might keep their gliding-machine continuously in the air, so that they might gain an automatic balance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful, in its gliding movement, as a serpent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The long train of offerings followed: all the pupils, sweeping past with the gliding step foreigners practise, left their tributes as they went by. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had tried to balance himself by throwing his weight quickly from side to side as he held to his gliding machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1901 and 1902 the Wrights continued their gliding experiments at Kitty Hawk. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She came, however, instantly, like a small ghost gliding over the carpet. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The boat was gliding out on the receding tide. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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