Glides
[ɡlaidz]
Examples
- It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A ghostly shade, frilled and night-capped, follows the law-stationer to the room he came from and glides higher up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Bucket sits out the procession in his own easy manner and glides from the carriage when the opportunity he has settled with himself arrives. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The men--see the poor, shabby fellows--pull off their hats to her quite politely, and now she glides in at that doorway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The platform glides through the prongs of a comb at the lower level and journeys upward at a moderate speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It glides over the park after the moving shadows of the clouds, and chases them, and never catches them, all day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checked by Judith