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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of glide.

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Examples

  • Climbing back, as the stones glid down, I heard the cold greedy wave go japping, like a blind black dog, into the distance of arches and hollow depths of darkness.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Perceiving that I had no intention of giving him fair play by coming within his reach, he suddenly uncoiled and glid across a log, thinking to make good his retreat; but being determined on having -- not his scalp, for the head of a rattle-snake is rather a dangerous toy -- but his rattle, I pursued him across the log.

    A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

  • -- Where glid the sunbeams through the latticed boughs,

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 Various

  • Climbing back, as the stones glid down, I heard the cold greedy wave go japping, like a blind black dog, into the distance of arches and hollow depths of darkness.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • And through and through the ship his lightning glid, 585

    Twelfth Book 1857

  • For example, ‘shape’ has now a weak præterite, ‘shaped’, it had once a strong one, ‘shope’; ‘bake’ has now a weak præterite, ‘baked’, it had once a strong one, ‘boke’; the præterite of ‘glide’ is now ‘glided’, it was once ‘glode’ or ‘glid’; ‘help’ makes now ‘helped’, it made once ‘halp’ and ‘holp’.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • Punctual to the moment, the railway train, conveying the redoubtable genius, glid into the well-lighted, elegant little station of Laverick

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • (Putting the cool in conservatism, dip in the hip and a glid in the stride.)

    Latest Articles Side Arm Talk 2010

  • Skim the water with your head, dont go under and do not go to far above. you should be facing down in the water when you glid and when you pull look up take a breath and look down again facing the bottom. its good to have a perfect pull out and stream line becuase this is where you get most of your distance.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Ask your site administrator to configure their servers to pass the glid

    Search Engine Watch Blog 2009

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