Glide
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Though wealth distribution remains a major concern, Malaysia’s Gini coefficient has been on a steady
glide
toward greater equality since the mid-1970s; in 2014, for example, it dropped to 0.40 for the first time ever, (though this figure remains higher than the average for OECD economies).
One had to be careful not to graze oneself in these fractures; and beneath the slow crushing, which caused the splitting of billets of oak as large as the thigh, one had to
glide
almost on one's belly with a secret fear of suddenly hearing one's back break.
He had seen Catherine
glide
beneath the coverlet and then blow out the candle.
He had to hasten so as not to lose sight of the light; only where the child passed with ease, with the suppleness of a serpent, he could not
glide
through without bruising his limbs.
The situation was indeed dangerous, but as if by magic, the Nautilus seemed to
glide
right down the middle of these rampaging reefs.
For several hours the Nautilus's spur sliced through these whitish waves, and I watched it
glide
noiselessly over this soapy water, as if it were cruising through those foaming eddies that a bay's currents and countercurrents sometimes leave between each other.
Sometimes an unpredictable irregularity in the seafloor would force the Nautilus to slow down, and then it would
glide
into the narrow channels between the hills with a cetacean's dexterity.
She let herself
glide
along with Lamartine meanderings, listened to harps on lakes, to all the songs of dying swans, to the falling of the leaves, the pure virgins ascending to heaven, and the voice of the Eternal discoursing down the valleys.
Yet there was upon that brow covered with cold drops, on those quivering lips, in those wild eyes, in the strain of those arms, something vague and dreary that seemed to Leon to
glide
between them subtly as if to separate them.
Opening a pair of enormous jaws, he took a good measure of the proffered brandy, and suffered it to
glide
downwards, with that sort of facility with which man is prone to sin.
In one of these pauses of invention, the scientific gentleman was gazing abstractedly on the thick darkness outside, when he was very much surprised by observing a most brilliant light
glide
through the air, at a short distance above the ground, and almost instantaneously vanish.
She then tried to seize the sword with her hands; but d’Artagnan kept it free from her grasp, and presenting the point, sometimes at her eyes, sometimes at her breast, compelled her to
glide
behind the bedstead, while he aimed at making his retreat by the door which led to Kitty’s apartment.
There is no knight-errant to come and seek a quarrel with me on account of the fair lady I detain a prisoner; but I have judges quite ready who will quickly dispose of a woman so shameless as to glide, a bigamist, into the bed of Lord de Winter, my brother.
The eyes of Milady darted such flashes that although he was a man and armed before an unarmed woman, he felt the chill of fear
glide
through his whole frame.
I
glide
like a shade amongst arborescent ferns, treading with unsteady feet the coloured marls and the particoloured clays; I lean for support against the trunks of immense conifers; I lie in the shade of sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved), and lycopods, a hundred feet high.
Well, good-bye," he added as the train began to
glide
down the platform.
A boat would be seen where a man may
glide
between wind and water."
This was when I chanced to see the third-storey staircase door (which of late had always been kept locked) open slowly, and give passage to the form of Grace Poole, in prim cap, white apron, and handkerchief; when I watched her
glide
along the gallery, her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper; when I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,--just say a word, perhaps, to the charwoman about the proper way to polish a grate, or clean a marble mantelpiece, or take stains from papered walls, and then pass on.
Anything more exquisite than her appearance, in her purple habit, with her Amazon's cap of black velvet placed gracefully above the long curls that kissed her cheek and floated to her shoulders, can scarcely be imagined: and it was thus she would enter the rustic building, and
glide
through the dazzled ranks of the village children.
There are men who letthemselves
glide
onward like running water.
At the moment when the thought of her isolation thus appeared to her more poignant than ever, she felt a bearded and hairy head
glide
between her hands, upon her knees.
Their mallets kept perfect time falling on the wedges meant to raise the ship’s keel: soon a shudder ran through the whole of her massive structure; although she had only been slightly raised, one could see that she shook, and then gradually began to
glide
down the well greased wedges, and in a few moments she plunged into the Clyde.
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