Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glide
Glide like a gentle stream.
—Anonymous
Glided like a flame of wind-blown fire.
—Thomas Ashe
Glide like a fallen leaf.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Glide away
Like a ghost at break of day.
—Robert Browning
Glide like happiness away.
—Lord Byron
Glided … like naked demons flitting among the clouds.
—James Fenimore Cooper
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
Glide like the flitting arrow.
—Thomas Hastings
Glide
As thought through spirits sanctified.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
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
Let my soft minutes glide securely on, like subterraneous streams, unheard, unknown.
—Bishop Norris
Glide over her mind as water over a glass.
—Harriet Parr
Glide to and fro like ghosts of buried centuries.
—Edgar Allan Poe
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feather’d hours.
—George Sandys
Gliding like a vision o’er the ground.
—Robert Southey
Glided like a dream.
—Celia Thaxter
Gliding like morning mist
Enkindled by the sun.
—William Wordsworth