Sledges of many shapes and fashions are in use during the winter in most countries where snow lies for any length of time upon the ground, as sledges glide more easily over its surface than do wheels.
He put off her clinging, clutching hands as gently as he might, but she resisted like a tigress at bay, and before he could drag her aside they heard the iron-barred door of the elevator glide open and clang shut.
Crosson would grin as she stumbled against him; then the lovelorn girl would stare up at him through the haze of the distance her letter had carried her to, and stammer excuses and fall back and blush, and glide round him on her way.
They glide along like phantoms and shadows, like the undulations of a blossom-laden tree or a field of corn waving in the wind.
From Wolf Neck and from Flying Point, From island and from main, From sheltered cove and tided creek, Shall glide the funeral train.
Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below!
He had put his arm round that daintier than dainty waist; but the changeful glistering cloth of her robe was so smooth and slippery that it seemed to him as if she could at any moment wind herself from his arms, and glide away.
Smiling he let my shadow glide to the ground, which immediately took its place on that of the horse, and trotted gaily by my side.
I could easily indeed glide through the rippling waves, but it is so restful in your arms, and, if you are to cast me off, I shall have sweetly rested in them once more for the last time.
Moreover, it is conceivable that the car need never touch the sides, for by a proper adjustment of the magnetism of the solenoids we might suspend it in mid-air like Mahomet's coffin, and make it glide along the magnetic axis of the tube.
Presently I was more than startled to see in the gloomier background of the cavern a great white serpent glide like a ghost along the floor and come straight towards us.
The coral serpent, the trigonocephalus, the rattlesnake, glide about the grass, climb the bushes whose branches effectually conceal them, or seek the shelter prepared for them in solitary corners.
Pirogues made from the hollowed trunks of trees and painted in the crude tones beloved of savages glide up and down the transparent waters.
You cannot imagine the pleasure it is to glide swiftly across the Pampas in a motor-car with a troop of young horses on either side of you, neighing and galloping to keep up with the machine.
I thought, indeed, that I had felt its soft plumes glide gently across my face in the very moment of my awakening, in the first amazement of which I but dimly comprehended the circumstances that surrounded me.
These new ships of the desert, the passenger trains, glide gracefully down from the aerial highways of the mountain passes into the heart of our fertile oases.
A female figure was so arranged as to glide from her hiding place and strike each hour on the bell with a huge hammer.
After the mysterious insect has unaccountably managed to glide out of its circular hole, this thorn-like shoot becomes a sort of musical instrument, upon which the wind, as it plays, produces the regular sound of a flute.
We glide slowly forwards, now over calm rising swell, whispering gently as spirit voices, now over small pyramidal waves produced by the meeting of two systems of undulations from different directions.
We glide in a flat curve to the south-west, and have to increase our distance from the shore that we may not run aground on the sandy bottom.
They think it awful and uncanny to glide over such great depths in the dark night.
Then the basin comes again into play, and we glide once more musically through the scale of temperature.
The emperor allowed his eyes to glide over the assembly.
How shall we discern with correctness the true relation of the parts of this wonderful phenomenon of empire, the vanishing events of which glide like dissolving views into each other?
It was in a vision of grand but dreary despotism, power almost limitless, but without one ray of enjoyment, that he lost himself and let the hours glide by.
He had surrendered Nelly Abbott to a claimant and stood watching the swirl and glide of the dancers in the Granada one night.
The stream is still quiet, and we glide along through a strange, wierd, grand region.
The rapidity of herglide into this position was that of a kingfisher -- its noiselessness that of a hawk.
Two varieties only of humanity could have entered the paddock with the ghostlike glide of that mysterious figure.
They will soon glide by, and it will seem an astonishingly short time to look back upon when they are past -- much less than to look forward to now.
When first descending from the moorland, I saw the stream of Yarrow glide Along a fair and open valley, The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide.
Far down the slope the river rolls and the ships glide without ceasing, while the trees rustle and the grass gleams as the breeze flies over.
Arriving at Sonning by river, however, you glide underneath the woods of Holme Park, and so take into calculation the church and village from a point of view highly favourable to their scenic pretensions.
As the tide gains, the little yachts rise from their bed of mud and curtsy at their moorings, the fishing-boats glide in, and the curve of the beach is full of animation.
He ran swiftly to the next fork, then paused within its shelter and glanced back, saw five red-cowled figures glide along the tunnel and vanish up the stairway.
Cliff flung him aside, following with the easy glide of a boxer.
