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Most merciful God, Lover of man, we praise Thee!Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and hereafter and for ever and ever!''Amen!' from the invisible choir, again
floated
through the air.
All this and much more
floated
through Mikhaylov's mind; and again his face shone with ecstasy.
With one hand supporting the head of the plump kicking baby who
floated
on his back, with the other she squeezed the water from a sponge over him, regularly exerting the muscles of her arm.
They were not left free, a shouting band followed them, while the crowd
floated
up to right and to left, without understanding, simply astonished at these dressed-up ladies lost in the midst of the battle.
Besides, it was the last day the Nautilus would spend in these waterways, if, tomorrow, it still
floated
off to the open sea as Captain Nemo had promised.
Hollowed from tree trunks, these dugouts were long, narrow, and well designed for speed, keeping their balance by means of two bamboo poles that
floated
on the surface of the water.
Six of their eight tentacles were long, thin, and
floated
on the water, while the other two were rounded into palms and spread to the wind like light sails.
Above us, huddled among the brown weeds, there
floated
objects originating from all over: tree trunks ripped from the Rocky Mountains or the Andes and sent floating down the Amazon or the Mississippi, numerous pieces of wreckage, remnants of keels or undersides, bulwarks staved in and so weighed down with seashells and barnacles, they couldn't rise to the surface of the ocean.
From the fish branch there were manta rays, enormous cartilaginous fish ten feet long and weighing 600 pounds, their pectoral fin triangular, their midback slightly arched, their eyes attached to the edges of the face at the front of the head; they
floated
like wreckage from a ship, sometimes fastening onto our windows like opaque shutters.
Sweat stood on every brow, and a whitish steam, like the vapour of a stream on an autumn morning,
floated
above the table between the hanging lamps.
Hazy clouds hovered on the horizon between the outlines of the hills; others, rent asunder,
floated
up and disappeared.
The curtains of the alcove
floated
gently round her like clouds, and the rays of the two tapers burning on the night-table seemed to shine like dazzling halos.
She had not eyes enough to look at the costumes, the scenery, the actors, the painted trees that shook when anyone walked, and the velvet caps, cloaks, swords—all those imaginary things that
floated
amid the harmony as in the atmosphere of another world.
Perhaps, from the casement, standing hand-in-hand, they were watching the calm moonlight on the river, while from the distant halls the boisterous revelry
floated
in broken bursts of faint-heard din and tumult.
The thin scud, that apparently
floated
but a short distance above the tops of the hills, began to drive from the west towards the east in astonishing rapidity.
Away off in the flaming sunshine, Cardiff Hill lifted its soft green sides through a shimmering veil of heat, tinted with the purple of distance; a few birds
floated
on lazy wing high in the air; no other living thing was visible but some cows, and they were asleep.
A muffled sound of voices
floated
up from the far end of the graveyard.
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound
floated
up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
Indistinct visions of rook-pie
floated
through his imagination.
The noise of carriages and carts, the rattle of wheels, the cries of men and boys, all the busy sounds of a mighty multitude instinct with life and occupation, blended into one deep murmur,
floated
into the room.
It
floated
slowly across the tank, a long welt of filth and slime.
On looking around him, however, as he could perceive no threatening object, as nothing indicated that he ran any real danger, as the bench was comfortably covered with a well-stuffed cushion, as the wall was ornamented with a beautiful Cordova leather, and as large red damask curtains, fastened back by gold clasps,
floated
before the window, he perceived by degrees that his fear was exaggerated, and he began to turn his head to the right and the left, upward and downward.
A black point
floated
on the sea.
He had been informed at seven o’clock in the morning that a rope ladder
floated
from one of the windows of the castle; he had hastened to Milady’s chamber, had found it empty, the window open, and the bars filed, had remembered the verbal caution d’Artagnan had transmitted to him by his messenger, had trembled for the duke, and running to the stable without taking time to have a horse saddled, had jumped upon the first he found, had galloped off like the wind, had alighted below in the courtyard, had ascended the stairs precipitately, and on the top step, as we have said, had encountered Felton.
It was ten feet by five; the planks of surturbrand, braced strongly together with cords, presented an even surface, and when launched this improvised vessel
floated
easily upon the waves of the Liedenbrock Sea.
From over a distant rise there
floated
a gray plume of smoke.
As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank, on which the upper floor and the roof
floated
like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea.
The canoe was carried to the beach and laid on the sand before Granite House, and the rising tide
floated
it.
Two barrels were there, half buried in the sand, but still firmly attached to a large chest, which, sustained by them, had
floated
to the moment when it stranded on the beach.
It is quite prepared for a voyage; and since it has
floated
here, it may just as well float to the mouth of the river."
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