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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



... could speak, could do more than look, Prosper Gael had jumped in, the door slammed, the car began its whirr, and they were gliding ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... from its forest tunnel, eluding the embrace of tangled shadows, swiftly gliding from sombre swamps and hurrying towards the sunlit plain, its phantom weeds of widowhood exchanged for its bridal robe of light; so doth this tale of mine glide forth from the sable shadows which garrison the ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... now passing through scenes and pastures, quiet fields and farms, of which many of Oxford's famous students and scholars had written and sung. Matthew Arnold had painted these fields and villages, hills and gliding, reedy streams in some of his poems, and they were the objective of many of ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... in the sunlight, we were going swiftly to a cruel death, and that the cliffs, whereof the beauty was hateful to us, irrevocably shut us in. Which gloomy feelings pressed upon us throughout that dismal passage, while all our oarsmen pulled stoutly together, and we went gliding onward over the sunlit waters towards the evil fate that we knew was waiting for us within the dark walls whereby was ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... green things growing, the running of the sap, the bursting of the bud. And he knew the subtle speech of the things that moved, of the rabbit in the snare, the moody raven beating the air with hollow wing, the baldface shuffling under the moon, the wolf like a grey shadow gliding betwixt the twilight and the dark. And to him Batard spoke clear and direct. Full well he understood why Batard did not run away, and he looked ...
— The Faith of Men • Jack London


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