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glided

  • past participle of glide.
  • past tense form of glide.

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A row Of flat white houses and a wharf Glided in sight.

From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin

Then the tender taper summits Of the trees, all leaf and glitter, Started from the sullen void; And the slopes behind them rising, Graceful-lined in undulation, Glided backwards one by one.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

After that—the sun on high—the greatest star Glided over the earth, God’s candle bright!

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

Right Through the throng Alfred Vargrave, with swift sombre stride, Glided on.

From Lucile by Meredith, Owen

Then the lively Lemminkainen Wandered on, but found no booty,80 Glided through the plains and marshes, Glided through the trackless forests, Where has Jumala his soot-hills, To the charcoal heaths of Hiisi.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)