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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
glide .
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Examples
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A truth which only glideth into fine ears, he calleth falsehood and trumpery.
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I advance with My face set towards Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Bounteous, whilst behind Me glideth the serpent.
The Promised Day Is Come 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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-Until over calm longing seas the bark glideth, the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad, and marvellous things frisk: -
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A truth which only glideth into fine ears, he calleth falsehood and trumpery.
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Thus the Mayne glideth, the banks and waves are full of all the bird and beast life of a river.
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-- Until over calm longing seas the bark glideth, the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad, and marvellous things frisk: --
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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On the other hand, when in the same sonnet he says, “The river glideth at his own sweet will,” the language is a metaphor.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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A truth which only glideth into fine ears, he calleth falsehood and trumpery.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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I wandered by the, 634. more water glideth by the, 104. much water goeth by the, 18.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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I advance with My face set towards Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Bounteous, whilst behind Me glideth the serpent.
The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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