The lightness of her body was such that she raised herself on two fingers and allowed herself to float for a little and fall gently back on the marble, causing the water to ripple softly against her chin.
Her naked heels float in and out from under her robe.
The unbelievers were astonished, and could hardly believe their eyes, when they saw the ship float lightly and gracefully on the river, instead of going to the bottom, as they so confidently predicted.
The crocodiles tugged so hard at the carcass, that we were soon obliged to cast it adrift, to float down in the current, to avoid upsetting the canoe.
The butterflies float about it in a dreamful trance, while in the cool, damp shade of a dock leaf squats a great toad, like a slimy dragon guarding the gate of a paradise.
It is not a very easy task to reduce to anything like perspicuity the various traditions which floatthrough the chronicles, regarding Queen Eleanor's unfortunate rival, the celebrated Rosamond Clifford.
The fish swims along, drawing the bamboo float after it: it soon decoys some other fish from its retreat, when the fisherman watches his opportunity and catches his fish in a hand-net which he carries with him.
The following fruits and seeds, taken from my dried collection of plants, float in sea-water.
Placing the fish and bamboo floatin the water, he follows them up either in his canoe or on foot.
Another common method of fishing in the eastern islands, which resembles in its idea that of the kite-fishing, consists in the use of a float of wood about three feet in length and rather bigger than a walking-stick.
A plan which I saw employed at Ugi consisted in tying a living fish to the end of a bamboo float and using it as a decoy for other fish.
It is worthy of note that the fruits of the great majority of trees which form the margin of the vegetation, whether on the lee or weather side of such an islet, float in salt water.
From one side there stretch out two slender poles four or five feet in length and supporting at their outer ends a long wooden float which runs parallel with the canoe.
When her body came to be viewed, it was very much wondered at; for in the first place, it is contrary to nature, that any persons that drown themselves should float upon the water.
I saw several (what number I will not be positive, but there were a great number, I cannot guess to a score) that did really swim, and I could see them float for a considerable distance.
I shall by the bye, tell you how fallacious the first experiment was, when I proposed to satisfy myself whether a dead body would float in water.
Do you know why some things float and others don't?
The pile must be considered as a whole, and it won't floatuntil there is water enough to float the whole.
I want to make it plain first that the ability of a thing to float depends not on its weight, but on its weight as compared with that of a like bulk of water.
The bottom logs can't float while those above them are clear out of water, if their weight rests on the bottom logs, as it does in the drift-pile.
But even if the water were to rise to the top of the hammock, the pile wouldn't float away.
When the water rises say two or three feet, it will be above the level of the lower logs, and these would float away, if they were free, because their specific gravity is less than that of water.
The log is many hundred times heavier than a bullet, but the log will float while the bullet will sink always.
Well, he says wood will float, and so he thinks when the water comes up under the drift-pile, it will allfloat away.
The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
You make hard wood float by driving plugs of lighter wood into both ends of the log.
With a curious thrill he had watched the old chief enter the tiny chamber and float motionless--a visitant from the past.
Then, as the big tug plowed on, the great expanse of Superior opened before them, a gigantic sheet of burnished glass edged with shadowy shores, and a long island whose soft outline seemed to float indistinctly on the unruffled water.
It made a poor flag, and there was no wind to float it out, yet it was seen all around.
At present it is useless to fell a tree, be it ever so fine, if it is growing at any distance from a river down which you can float it to the sea beach, for it would be impossible to drag it far through the Liane-tangled West African forest.
Then the owner does not worry himself much about it for a month or so, but lets it float its way down and soak, and generally lazy about until he gets together sufficient of its kind to make a shipment.
To Frank, it was one of the proudest moments of his life--a sight he would not have missed to be able to float at the mast-head of his vessel the broad pennant of the admiral.
Dan and Neb are knocking a raft together, and if they can make it float they'll go over there and get the little lad off.
I see the patient mother read, With aching heart, of wrecks that float Disabled on those seas remote, Or of some great heroic deed On battle-fields, where thousands bleed To lift one hero into fame.
So they two went together in glowing August weather, The honey-breathing heather lay to their left and right; And dear she was to doat on, her swift feet seem'd to float on The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight.
The lustre was like that of satin; on the lighter hues there seemed to float an efflorescence; a solemn bloom appeared on the more dark.
At a distance might be seen masts surmounted with the standards of the cross, and others bearing the banners of Mahomet, which seemed to mingle and float together.
If you will accept the proposal I have made to you, to-morrow the standard of the cross shall float over the walls of Antioch, and we will march in triumph to Jerusalem.
Let us imitate this prudence and before we float further on the waves of this debate refer to the point from which we departed that we may at least be able to form some conjecture where we now are.
Then they should all skip off with springing, rhythmic steps in open Indian file, letting their mantles float and wave about them as they wind in and out over the camp ground carrying "Youth and Hope ev'rywhere.
Shall those who live for self alone, Whose yearsfloat on in daily crime-- Shall they by Faith for guilt atone, And live beyond the bounds of Time?
If, when this dust to dust restored, My soul shall float on airy wing, How shall thy glorious name adored, Inspire her feeble voice to sing!
I seemed to float in the pure ether, or to be merged in a universal ocean.
To float along with Carmen, going deeper and deeper into the shifting gayety which made the days fly without thought and with no care for tomorrow, began to seem an admirable way of passing life.
The anxiety was to invent and launch something that should float on to the generations to come, and carry the name of the builder and the fame of his generation.
It was evident that he was a hero to the female part of the spectators, and no doubt his charming image continued to float round and round in the brain of many a girl when she put her, head on the pillow that night.
Icebergs float down against its surface-current, and fill all the New-England air with the chill of death till June: after that the fogs drift down from Newfoundland.
Above a long line of ordinary looking clouds, float great white masses, formed of the sulphurous vapor.
This basin is almost large enough to float the navy of Great Britain, and it could lie here, with the narrows fortified, secure from the attacks of the American navy, hovering outside in the fog.
He seemed not so much to skate as to float about the floor, with no effort except volition.
The dome of the Capitol seemed to float like a bubble, and to be as unsubstantial as the genii edifices in the Arabian tale.
But the schooners sail idly, and the fishing-boats that have put out from the marina float in the most dreamy manner.
If the latter had lived at Grand Pre, she would, I trust, have made it hot for the brutal English who drove the Acadians out of their salt-marsh paradise, and have died in her heroic shoes rather than float off into poetry.
But I’m afraid it’s so rough down there we won’t float long.
We can float for some time in the life preservers, and in the morning a steamship may pick us up.
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