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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