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Gliding   /glˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Glide  v. i.  (past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)  
1.
To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. "The river glideth at his own sweet will."
2.
(Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
3.
(Aeronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.





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"Gliding" Quotes from Famous Books



... church clock struck two, I awoke. I heard a sound of movement in Smugg's room next door. I lay and listened. Presently his door opened, and he creaked gently downstairs. I sprang out of bed and looked out of the window. Smugg, fully dressed, was gliding along the path toward Dill's farm. Some impulse—curiosity only, very likely—made me jump into my trousers, seize a flannel jacket, draw on a pair of boots, and hastily follow him. When I got outside he was visible in the moonlight, mounting the path ahead ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... two by a scream. A large and very handsome snake was gliding gracefully across her path. The like of it for size and brilliancy, ...
— Dotty Dimple Out West • Sophie May
... I did not heed the following eyes, when, as gliding figures began to cover the floor again, John took me back to the parlours. I went with him submissively; I thought of nothing but the joy of my life, the love of my lover. I shall think of nothing else to ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... is to be effected at midnight, when she appears as a snake, by taking with the mouth a key from her mouth and flinging it into the Alzet. No one, however, has yet succeeded in doing this; and meantime when a calamity threatens the town, whose faithful guardian she is, she gives warning by gliding round the Bockfels uttering ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland
... away from here; for in the hot summer months amid these neglected and decaying memorials of the dead, creeping and crawling in and out of the crumbling masonry of the tombs, gliding among the long, reedy grass, or lying basking in the sun upon the fallen headstones, are deadly black and brown snakes. They have made this old, time-forgotten cemetery their own favourite haunting place; for the waters of the creek are near, and on its margin they find their prey. Once, ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke


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