Glide Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Glide


Glide like a gentle stream. —Anonymous	1
Glided like a flame of wind-blown fire. —Thomas Ashe	2
Glide like a fallen leaf. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	3
Glide away Like a ghost at break of day. —Robert Browning	4
Glide like happiness away. —Lord Byron	5
Glided … like naked demons flitting among the clouds. —James Fenimore Cooper	6
Glide On smoothly, as a river floweth by, Or as on stately pinion, through the gray Evening, the culver cuts his liquid way. —David Gray	7
Glide like the flitting arrow. —Thomas Hastings	8
Glide As thought through spirits sanctified. —Paul Hamilton Hayne	9
Like phantoms painted on the magic slide, Forth from the darkness of the past we glide, As living shadows for a moment seen In airy pageant on the eternal screen. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	10
Let my soft minutes glide securely on, like subterraneous streams, unheard, unknown. —Bishop Norris	11
Glide over her mind as water over a glass. —Harriet Parr	12
Glide to and fro like ghosts of buried centuries. —Edgar Allan Poe	13
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather’d hours. —George Sandys	14
Gliding like a vision o’er the ground. —Robert Southey	15
Glided like a dream. —Celia Thaxter	16
Gliding like morning mist Enkindled by the sun. —William Wordsworth	17