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    1. Time stood still around her, the grasses hushing their endless tidal sweep, and now, without any further movement of her feet, she felt herself glide towards his beckoning paw


    2. She seemed to glide across the room beside him in a gown that all the females were staring at with envious eyes


    3. A controlled glide, he thought to himself, in the middle of this grand forest - what a pilot!


    4. The fingers on her hands were long and graceful; and she seemed to glide about the room


    5. " He continued stepping out from behind the frightening shadow of a man, to reach for her hand, and glide her out of the man’s grasp, and into his familiar warmth


    6. and watched a small flock of waterfowl glide across the


    7. When the tears glide to


    8. They drove in Grandpa's horseless carriage which seemed to glide along the lanes rather than actually roll on its wheels


    9. He swooped up and over a power line, then settled again into his glide path


    10. As the train began to glide off the station, Scott started thinking about a woman who had appeared in his dreams

    11. Watching each model glide elegantly across the plush apricot carpeted ramp caught her breath


    12. watching the wonders of my new world glide by


    13. But without a bomb-load, and low on fuel, the plane seemed to glide forever


    14. But soon she noticed that he was easing back to a more sustainable effort, and although the raft moved slower, it seemed to glide more smoothly along


    15. She let her gaze glide back to Vanil


    16. He quietly shook his head and let his gaze glide into the forest


    17. “On the one hand, I’ve had a piece of the Glide N Ride rental agency for almost 30 years


    18. With that being said, this Dorian Christian stunad has been a frequent and long standing customer with Glide N Ride


    19. As Dorian sat in the back of the limo sipping ice cold orange juice (courtesy of Glide N Ride), he pressed the small red button on the door which operated the driver’s intercom


    20. She rode with her head held back so her gaze could glide through the green tree crowns above her head

    21. He let his lips glide over her jaw and further down her throat


    22. She recoiled as the stranger stepped forward, seeming to glide over the floor


    23. shaving creams help the razor glide over the skin, reducing irritation


    24. not glide into this life without choosing Him once and


    25. This is something that will become apparent very quickly as you glide through this book


    26. I swallow as Zachary’s arms glide to Madeline’s, his lips anticipating hers


    27. Moshe felt a pat on his shoulder as he stared intently at the last of the buildings, as they seemed to glide past him


    28. "You are on glide slope, you are on glide path," GCA said


    29. Her body seemed to glide upwards as she stood


    30. into the middle of the table, creak open the cover, glide a slow

    31. and glide in slow, beautiful rings that expanded with every new


    32. That"s when I feel his other hand loose and glide with mine to my belt


    33. Then I crawled onto the bed, allowing my breasts to hang down and glide over


    34. his tongue glide over the sensitive throbbing nub


    35. split time into two, the past and the future, were it not for the fact that we skate or glide or surf across its surface


    36. ” Rita said as I stepped out into the opened as I watched one of the small yellow lights glide in front of me


    37. The firm, uniform, rhythmic flight, from the obtuse hillsides mending the bluish summits, thinly at first, then extending, energetically, the fabulous ailerons allowing him to glide on the tiny greenish heads of the trees and the transparent threads of the rivers, similar to the hair of a woman lifted to the wind


    38. My publications include a volume of poetry, Outside the Box, and my first novel, Glide


    39. I plan to publish a collection of short stories this spring and, hopefully, a sequel to Glide later this year


    40. Darrell - Your book Glide deals with a category of fiction you call Green Sci-Fi

    41. And, as the Prophet in Glide says about our politicians, "oil flows through their veins and gunpowder salts their meals


    42. Darrell - Glide has been featured on Wattpad


    43. I can't say that my experience with Wattpad has translated into gobs of sales, but it has translated into invaluable feedback for my work, thoughtful fans, and nearly a million reads of my novel Glide (and counting)


    44. Will your hands glide behind mine upon the rails of ascension?


    45. Just as she’d visualized herself as thin, minute-to-minute, day after day, she’d envision those doors as her own: the scent of their cherry stain, the strength of their wood, the ease of their glide


    46. As the boat approached the far end of the cove he swung to port, letting it glide as he turned toward the girls with a smile


    47. His expression changing as he saw a small boat anchored ahead of him , invisible from outside the cove, the boat continuing to glide as his expression changed


    48. What a discovery! Won’t that make me the Buddhini of sexual enlightenment? Wonder how I missed the point, being in the thick of it all along, day in and day out! And for the record, all alone I was sipping beer in the CB this afternoon! Oh, how seized I was with an irresistible temptation to prove my theory right then and there! I feigned to be drunk and asked that waiter to guide me to the loo only to let him glide his sex tool into me, doggy style! While he f'ed me, didn’t I realize another truth? Woman could be amorous, but sexual vigor vests with man and that matters


    49. 'Mystery and terror are about us, Conan, and we glide into the realm of horror and death,' she said


    50. Something was moving through the deep bushes that fringed the trail—something that neither walked nor flew, but seemed to glide like a serpent














































    1. His wings spread out so that he glided down toward the water


    2. Well this time the dockmaster was mesmerized as Vatreel aimed the rack toward the shoremen's idle ones, then lifted the whole rack as they glided by and stepped with it, matching his walk along the deck to the drift of the river, til the whole row of bales rolled across and lay resting on their rack while the docksman's chins dropped and he walked half the edge of the deck


    3. he glided over the sand


    4. a small glided cage


    5. Minutes later Jake glided onto the mountaintop


    6. Lady Jennie curved to the right and gently glided over the mountaintop and headed for camp


    7. She then bent over, spread her wings and glided out of the cave


    8. As they glided over he could see that some were assembled on the soccer field, and others were running across the field to join them


    9. With that the black tinted window glided back up and the car purred its silent, luxurious way into the teeming lunch time streets of London’s hustling West End


    10. They were probably all thinking of that as they stood silently at the rail for a long time as the ship glided thru the last of the calm water

    11. Lady Ariel glided over the meadow and Andrew could see that the people in the cave had seen what had just taken place


    12. Lady Ariel took off and glided around the town


    13. A small thin female opened the door almost instantly, “Lord Tarak, Master Denair is expecting you,” she said in a soft voice as she glided across the floor, “please follow me


    14. She glided over to him and laid her head against his chest, his arms went about her protectively


    15. With that the black tinted window glided back up and the car


    16. Their parachutes opened and they glided downward towards the direction of the Queens Hold


    17. She glided to the top of the large and ornate staircase in a positively


    18. roadbed and seagulls glided on the wind, screaming fitfully over their


    19. There was more money, genetics was invented, there were high speed vehicles that glided on tracks all around the world, huge mechanical floaters in the skies and maybe even ships that were able to leave the world entirely


    20. ’ He looked out across the fields as they glided

    21. Above, fluffy clouds of yandrille notes put on the main show while huge white birds glided among them


    22. The Kawasaki KX500 glided over the black asphalt of Collingston,


    23. When they arrived at the ladies gate, so did the horseless carriage as it glided silently towards them


    24. But it wasn’t Grandpa who stormed in that afternoon, it was Sky with bedraggled tail feathers that had glided in to Granny's garden


    25. It certainly appeared impressive and spectacular as it glided its way across the sand


    26. He couldn’t help but openly stare at Helez as she glided towards him


    27. But as his eyes glided over the text, they widened and his lips parted


    28. He glided in over a large area along the river that was engulfed in flames


    29. The ship slowly glided across the horizon and eventually sailed out of sight


    30. As the model glided across the runway to the exit,

    31. clear the obstruction and smoothly glided away


    32. as she glided down the staircase onto the stage


    33. master?” the words poured from his mouth, shaped by a long, dark evergreen tongue that glided


    34. The fine bristles of the brush glided with ease through the long, silky strands of brown hair


    35. At about half the speed of sound the saucer ship glided over from the South Downs to the North Downs


    36. They glided low over constructions that bore no resemblance to any previous urban areas or indeed to any obvious practical purpose


    37. A slight nod and the Captain glided out of the ancient Hall


    38. He glided to their counter, white flakes dusting his hair and shoulders


    39. On the 13th the flag ship “Seguranca” signalled the start; and with colours flying and bands playing, the vessels glided out to mid-stream and dropped down toward the sea


    40. Sicarius glided over it without breaking stride

    41. Sicarius glided around the furniture and stopped on a shaggy rug in front of the fire


    42. Without a sound her long body glided slowly around Pirate while her head seemed to stay in the same place


    43. A servant glided in on Dunn’s heels to turn up the lamps and add coal to the stove


    44. Loath as I was to see the end of my best handkerchief, which held special memories of a trip to Southend when I'd been a teenager, I nodded silently, watching the attendant as he glided silently away with the grace of someone who'd spent many hours training in contact sports


    45. Officer Edgar Vargas studied the Coast Guard cutter through binoculars as she glided from her berth and steamed from the harbor


    46. She glided down to the ground effortlessly; she landed in front of Ruby


    47. " The Great White Owl spread her wings and without a sound, majestically glided away


    48. He could see the falling suns, their glare losing its strength as they slowly glided past the sea of sand into a thin velvet horizon of scarlet and violet blue


    49. He glided the raft away from him as the thought gained currency in his mind


    50. He again walked the slippery path of circumstance as well as conscience while the raft glided along at the extremity of the rope, pulled only lightly by the ever lessening current, as those exhilarating thoughts tempted the very depths of his being














































    1. The endless red water ripples ever so slowly to the infinite horizon, a dactyl glides off from a tall hangleaf as the ship approaches, it's mournful screech echoed by one in the distance


    2. Alex whispers the name of his sister once, and, ignoring the imprecations pouring out of the blue van, he glides the car smoothly up to the roundabout and across the old bridge that leads into the heart of Barnstaple


    3. She rolls over and folds herself into the man's back, spooning, and with her left hand she reaches over his hips and glides her hand across his abdomen towards his morning erection


    4. “Here's how they go together, this is key, the early consonants are on the left if they're harsh, top if they're soft, vowels and glides roam toward the middle, later consonants on the right and bottom, R, L, Y and W can also be vowels


    5. smell them, that sweet innocence just glides through the room like it was meant


    6. ) Then he slowly lowered his head down and transitioned into the move that we later started to refer to as “tracks,” “head glides” or “halos


    7. Whatever support we hope to find is insecure and leaves us; and if we pursue it, it eludes our grasp, and continuously glides away from us, forever evading us; nothing waits for us


    8. Who lips the roots o' the shore, and glides


    9. Tres always marvels at the hov, the way it glides so smoothly


    10. And with it the eagle glides to earth to take its rest, having passed the day’s tests

    11. 'But what thing is it that can cry like a woman and laugh like a devil, and shines like witch-fire as it glides through the trees?' gasped Balthus, mopping the sweat from his pale face


    12. The fabric is so soft it glides between my fingers


    13. A window glides open and he walks inside


    14. Archan is not even coming close to catching Chee-Chee, then Chee-Chee leaps off the top of a computer terminal, spreads his arms and glides across the inside lake


    15. SMOOTHLY, THE ship glides through the waves


    16. The whole group was focused on the spot where they thought they would intercept the lower cliffs at the end of their long glides across the valley


    17. Look at the way it glides


    18. Some just did a simple, but graceful, approach, flying efficiently, extending their glides as long as possible, while others flew out over the valley with plenty of altitude and executed a spectacular aerobatic display, performing stalls, dives and over the top wingovers, often entering their last manoeuvre dangerously close to the ground


    19. I need to know, a yes? A no?" He asks as his hand glides from my cheek to my chin


    20. A ghost glides out of the room without effort

    21. Beatrice slips her arm into Amy’s as Belladal glides into the palace ahead of them, her dark skin warm and glowing in the light


    22. On the same creek, a small green boat slowly glides by


    23. The powder glides on the eyelid and with careful blending you can easily vary the density of color


    24. Just then Jay Glides over to us


    25. Jay Glides over to where Rage has fallen and tackles him


    26. ’ He walks over to the desk and glides the drink onto the desk


    27. kites and glides to the bright outback, to slide and chat-slow with the crowded conglomerations in the downstairs rooms and on the paved patios


    28. After a time, he glides his palm over a smooth glass wall and an elevator appears


    29. Then she shoves him back and pushes past him with that long-legged gazelle walk, gracefully swipes the palm pad and glides out the door


    30. (She glides away crookedly

    31. Her boa uncoils, slides, glides over her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground


    32. Steered by his rapier, he glides to the door, his wild harp slung behind him


    33. In the rear glides a single black Mercedes


    34. The heavy mirrored doors knock lightly as it glides


    35. It came on in stealthy and measured glides, like the moves of a chess-player


    36. Hers was the solitary love, the persistent love, which glides into every thought and becomes the substance, or, as our fathers might have said, the tissue of life


    37. ” Magnus pulls into the valet parking and his car glides to a halt


    38. She glides to the bar and orders a shot of whisky


    39. He hits the window controls, and it glides upward


    40. Dominick releases the dead man and rears back slowly as a police car glides down alongside the fairway from the north

    41. "In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, and the welcome hour arrives for her entrance into the Elysian world, of which she has had such bright dreams


    42. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over Candide


    43. Beware, meadow-beasts! Here glides, in full plummet, Wetherby with nothing to stop him!"


    44. The air was blue alcohol flame, and vultures roasted and steamed and glittered as they flew in glides and circles


    45. "And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea


    46. Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors—the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the green of the groves—why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?


    47. Instead of making the question a personal one, he glides at once to generalities


    48. The Tennessee River, having concentrated into one mass, the numerous streams it has received in its course of three or four hundred miles, glides through an extended valley with a rapid and overwhelming current, half a mile in width


    1. But Eddie was too afraid to flap his wings, so gliding is all he did


    2. His wings unfolded like before, but he was still just gliding toward the water


    3. performed gracefully, gliding through the air


    4. His was all the way to the starboard end, so he had windows on two sides, the ones at the table looking out over the side and at the distant banks gliding by


    5. So with Captain Dimitris in the wheelhouse keeping a weather eye on the horizon, and me sipping the concentrated aniseed drink, I began humming the one sea shanty in my repertoire, Liverpool Lou and it wasn't long before the Princess of Stephanos was gliding over the waves along her way


    6. Gliding through the mist there came the figure of a tall, slinky blonde, who wiggled outrageously as she walked on air


    7. Gliding above it all to extradite its spirit


    8. gliding into blue water


    9. He spread his wings, gliding down to the rooftop


    10. What captured the bridge crew's attention however was the field of destruction into which the Huntress was now gliding

    11. The auto winch dropped down towards the ground and in a few seconds Martin was gliding onto the soft, needle covered turf


    12. Gliding, so we can see if we can spot who ever ducked up to those rocks


    13. It was gliding very slowly towards the device


    14. As Sheuli was beckoned up to the stage, the Rabbi waited ceremoniously for her as she gracefully ascended the stairs almost as if she was gliding


    15. Rough handholds had been prepared where the stairs had met a natural object too hard to chisel at and the torch bearer was keen to show these with a pause of his ascent, letting the torch light flood over the obstacle like a silk handkerchief, before gliding upward


    16. Chuckles was familiar with the house and headed up the stairs, gliding up the carpeted treads like a silent spectre


    17. Gliding across the carpeted floor Gonzalez came up behind him, gripping the receptionist’s shoulder so tightly that his fingers disappeared into the man’s muscles


    18. Upwards he flew, above the canopy of Brockenhurst Forest, swooping and gliding like a buzzard hunting prey, delighting in the sensation of the wind against his face


    19. I was gliding through this life on a cloud suspended by my faith and it was inconceivable that there was any form of calamity looming


    20. The Camel wasn’t really meant as a gliding machine

    21. He started to bring up the nose, and put in a little power, gliding in through the stratosphere


    22. She would hop from branch to branch, gliding effortlessly between the hanging limbs


    23. sun gliding the paths wet with glittering snares;


    24. The first guy up from their crew (Slim Jim) entered the linoleum stage, gliding on his feet like an astronaut, with moonwalk-esque movements that transitioned into a series of serious wavin’ and poppin’ routines, first rate


    25. Then confirming my suspicions, he busted out into floor gliding, moon walking, poppin’, and tickin’ and such as he drew more near – that was just how he walked, which inspired Slim Jim to bellow, “Kid Mojo – in the Emmer Effin’ hiz ouse!”


    26. Finally after about three miles I got to a place in the Eucalyptus trees where I could do a U, went all the way back a mile or so past where I’d originally turned, came to a signal where the street sign said Torrey Pines, turned left, and I went down into this huge big vacant place that was all dirt with about two hundred cars parked down there, and it said Hang Gliding on a building


    27. was gliding, and he landed on the wide barrel of one of the cannons


    28. moved swiftly to the left, gliding along the smooth walkway that


    29. ledge, lurching forward as he and Tifa began gliding along the


    30. The moon was slowly gliding off the sky, but darkness was not leaving with her

    31. But not only did the car fare well, it was smoothly gliding on top of the rocks, like we never left it


    32. often to the sounds of the raven gliding in and landing on the


    33. So much for the gliding terrorist scare


    34. throat, his fingers gliding about the porcelain skin, following the


    35. Suddenly we were gliding over the


    36. his hand toying with her arm, his fingers gliding up and down, or


    37. At first he thought it was an eagle gliding in the firmament, but as it was approaching, the diffuse characters of the animal were delineated in the figures of a few girls and a dog mounted on a carpet, who were shouting with the same effusiveness as a castaway in view of a ship


    38. The old lady was leading him into the house as the old man got into one of those gliding metal machines with a grim expression


    39. ” Kaite aims her rifle out over the dunes, her eye glued to the scope she tracks something gliding high on the breeze


    40. He walked in slow motion, as if he was gliding on thin air

    41. The cloud giants came gliding on the disc, shooting lasers from every side


    42. The blade whistles a sweet tune through the cold air and gracefully slides across your exposed throat as though it were a figure skater gliding on a frozen pond at night, shining in the light from the gas lamps and the twinkling stars overhead


    43. Silently and unmoving, he watched from under his hood as Murphy circled in long lazy spirals before gliding slowly off


    44. It made distant objects indistinct and that made him uneasy, rousing thoughts of serpents gliding unseen through the dimness


    45. He avoided clinging briars and low-hanging branches effortlessly, gliding between trees without touching the stems and always planting his feet in the places calculated to show least evidence of his passing; but with Balthus it was slower, more laborious work


    46. Suddenly a figure appeared on the fringe of the trail, under the trees, and began gliding toward the fallen timbers


    47. Gliding into the niche, he peered through


    48. Smoother and gaited unlike the normal walk, trot and canter but as smooth as gliding on water


    49. My troubles seemed to leave me as I became absorbed with nothing more than my body gliding through the waves and the sea-bed below


    50. Once the ship was gliding smoothly toward the dock, the assistant harbor master said to no one in particular, “Well kids, you had a tough one out there, but we’re glad you’re back













































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    Synonyms for "glide"

    glide gliding sailing sailplaning soaring coast slide semivowel flow slip descend decline spiral slither

    "glide" definitions

    a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant


    the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it


    the activity of flying a glider


    move smoothly and effortlessly


    fly in or as if in a glider plane


    cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly