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Sentences starting with floated

Floated down the river on a log after a few percussion caps. [9]

Sentences ending with floated

We whisked by many a gray old medieval castle, clad thick with ivy that swung its green banners down from towers and turrets where once some old Crusader's flag had floated. [5]
The Broad Church is on board, working hard at the pumps, and very slow to believe that the ship will be swallowed up with so many poor people in it, fastened down under the hatches ever since it floated. [6]
Though the rain fell on her cheeks, her mouth was parched; and this dryness of her palate, this physical sense of lightness, almost of dizziness, were intimately yet incomprehensibly part and parcel of the fantastic moods into which she floated. [9]
If he had consulted you or me he would have been told that his scheme lacked too many attractions; that it was impossible; that it could never be floated. [5]
High in the azure a hawk wheeled, and floated. [9]
I closed in above the shore light, and laid on my oars and floated. [5]

Short sentences using floated

She floated in swift currents. [9]
They've floated it about eighteen. [4]

More example sentences with the word floated in them

How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
Brydon saw a woman standing at a window of the House waving her arms, and there floated up the river the words, "Father! [11]
Upon the castle, with the flag of the duchy, waved the republican tricolour, where for a thousand years had floated a royal banner. [11]
A picture-frame in which there was a cheap lithograph of a soldier on horseback, as it floated on told of some hearth invaded by the water and despoiled of this ornament. [5]
The north-east wind which rose towards morning had floated them away, and Zeus, devourer of the clouds, had swallowed them up to the very last. [10]
Was Helena's image, which now floated before him so bewitchingly, destined to fade as swiftly? [10]
That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
At one place where we halted for a while, the foul gush from a sewer was making the water turbid and murky all around, and there was a random corpse slopping around in it that had floated down from up country. [5]
Above the spot where the two had sunk floated the red tarboosh of the Mudir of the Fayoum. [11]
Looking after Barry Whalen's retreating figure he saw this new, grave world opening out before him; and as the vision floated before his eyes, Barry's appeal that he should visit Jasmine at the hospital came to him. [11]
Behind the store were moored the barges that floated down on the swift current to the Ohio, carrying goods to even remoter settlements in the western wilderness. [9]
He had been watching a man's face for some time; but his eyes were now idly following the smoke of his cigarette as it floated away to the ceiling in fading circles. [11]
Before the sun was quite down, Joan's forever memorable day's work was finished, her banner floated from the fortress of the Tourelles, her promise was fulfilled, she had raised the siege of Orleans! [5]
The March night was drawing toward its end, pallid mists floated over the canal, the work of Hebrew bondmen which, as far as the eye could reach, intersected the plain, watering the fields and pastures along its course. [10]
The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
Out upon the vast sea of sand, where the descending sun was spreading a note of incandescent colour, there floated the grateful words: "He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel; as He promised to our forefathers, Abraham, and his seed for ever. [11]
I paddled mo'n two hours, den I warn't worried no mo', so I quit paddlin' en floated down de current, considerin' what I 'uz gwine to do if I didn't have to drown myself. [5]
I am sorry to say that while Forbes and Miss Lamont floated, so to speak, in all this beauty, like the light-hearted revelers they were, King was scarcely in a mood to enjoy it. [4]
The silence broke to a clear call from an incoming rider, and, almost like the peal of a hunting-horn, floated back the answer. [13]
The music floated through the room and down the hillside, a searching sweetness. [11]
The idea floated through his mind, for he thought of everything; but he was a lawyer, and not a fool, and had no idea of figuring in court as a criminal. [6]
We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate. [5]
As she stood there, with her fingers clasped upon a letter she had drawn from her pocket, a voice from among the palms outside floated towards her. [11]
Every now and then masses of the dark crust broke away and floated slowly down these streams like rafts down a river. [5]
The crests behind them deepened in purple as the saffron faded in the west, and a gossamer cloud of Tyrian dye floated over Holdfast. [9]
Nearly all of them are deserted, and the out-houses floated off. [5]
He showed me the way the thing was being done, the way the company was being floated, how the market in New York was catching hold. [11]
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath. [10]
He remembered now the sickly, pungent air that floated past, and how Valmond, weak from the loss of blood in the fight at the smithy, shuddered, and drew his cloak about him. [11]
They floated about the sea half an afternoon and all night long. [5]
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note. [5]
At eight o'clock, the priests were chanting vespers to a larger congregation than many churches have on Sunday: their voices were rich and musical, and, joined with the organ notes, floated sweetly and impressively through the dim and vast interior. [4]
Abdalla motioned to the next room, where the blind men ate their evening meal, and out to the dimly lighted streets where thousands of narghilehs and cigarettes made little smoky clouds that floated around white turbans and dark faces. [11]
He floated down the Mississippi on a log, out of Vicksburg, and brought back thousands and thousands of percussion caps. [9]
Virginia stood by the little window of the cabin, and as the Barbara paddled and floated down the river she looked anxiously for signals of a conflagration. [9]
The smell of the incense floated past them. [11]
And especially did the crafts built in imitation of something that had floated down from a previous generation come to quick disaster. [4]
Mr. Bixby pulled the cord, and two deep, mellow notes from the big bell floated off on the night. [5]
The smell of the cooking-pots floated out from the mud-houses near by. [11]
He stayed his steps, and his eyes followed the thin columns of smoke, which floated tremulously up in the clear light of the ever mounting sun from the numerous hearths that lay below him. [10]
Was it the spirit of the slain Tarautas which had floated in at the open window? [10]
I made up some plans, en floated along, turnin' 'em over in my mine. [5]
Streaks of grease smoke floated fantastically beneath the low ceiling, and Hannah, with the frying-pan in one hand and a fork in the other, was bending over the stove. [9]
We breakfasted in silence, and with the crew standing ready at the oars and Xavier scanning the wide expanse of waters ahead, seeking for that unmarked point whence to embark on this perilous journey, we floated down the stream. [9]
Mr. Cooke being seen only on rare and fleeting occasions, there gradually got abroad a most curious misconception of that gentleman's character, while over his personality floated a mist of legend which the Celebrity took good care not to dispel. [9]
They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to New Orleans, changed cargoes there, and were tediously warped and poled back by hand. [5]
A long trailing robe of costly brocade, blue on the left side and yellow on the right, now floated around her tall figure. [10]
Bare, parched rocks rise in naked beauty at the north of the bay, and the rays of the young day-star shot golden threads through the light white mists, that floated around them. [10]
With what lazy restfulness the distant All's well floated across the mielles from a ship at anchor in the tide-way, how like a slumber-song the wash of the sea rolled drowsily along the wind! [11]
A rich greenish radiance sprang into the sky from behind the mountain, and in this same airy shreds and ribbons of vapor floated about, and being flushed with that strange tint, went waving to and fro like pale green flames. [5]
In the slight pause Carterette made, a hundred confused torturing thoughts swam through her mind and presently floated into the succeeding sentences of the letter: "'As for me, I'm like Rabot's mare, I haven't time to laugh at my own foolishness. [11]
Tableaux from the past floated before Virginia's eyes. [9]
He tried to paint, and finding the attempt useless, gazed into the garden and at the distant chain of the Guadarrama mountains; but to-day he remained unmoved by the delicate violet-blue mist that floated around the bare, naked peaks of the chain. [10]
Little clouds floated over the damp, grassy earth, rotting tree-trunks, piles of wood and heaps of twigs that surrounded the kiln. [10]
When its full orb floated above the island Hermon, too, would appear, and the happiness which had been predicted to Ledscha would begin. [10]
Circling round two or three times above the Post, the duck then stretched out its neck to the west, and floated away beyond Guidon Hill, and was hid from view. [11]
At the right, opposite to the first houses, lay a small pond called the village pool, on which ducks and geese floated, and whose dark surface, glittering with many hues, reflected the shepherd's hut. [10]
The ghost appeared only once, and it went by very dim to the sight and floated noiseless through the air, and then disappeared; and we scarcely trembled, he had taught us so well. [5]
But all at once he floated into a powerful melody, as a stream creeps softly through a weir, and after many wanderings broadens suddenly into a great stream. [11]
Then the clock on the inn stairs struck two, and the noise of harsh laughter floated up to us from below. [9]
Then, at last, on the halcyon air of that summer day floated the Angelus from the cathedral tower. [11]
The boat floated on and went out of sight around the shoulder of the island. [5]
A muffled sound of voices floated up from the far end of the graveyard. [5]
The poisonous breath of unchecked license had blasted the noble moderation of the vapor of wine which floated round this chaos of riotous topers slowly rose the pale image of Satiety watching for victims on the morrow. [10]
The heavy breath of the palm trees floated in upon them; the fruit of the passion-flower hung temptingly at the window; they could hear the sound of a torrent just behind the house. [11]
When I speak of my death, let me be understood to say that there was no change, except that I passed out of my body and floated to the top of a bookcase in the corner of the room, from which I looked down. [4]
But he saw nothing except the dawn and light clouds of smoke, that assumed a rosy hue as they floated upward. [10]
Mona--Kitty, the two names, the two who, so far, had touched his life, each in her own way, as none others had done, they floated before his eyes till sight and feeling grew dim. [11]
I floated into my own room, which was empty. [4]
Her own dead mother, perhaps, had floated past among these wandering souls, and she grieved to think that she had neglected to look for her and give her a loving greeting. [10]
Yet, at the moment, from high up in the carved crevices of the arch, floated down the low, strange wail of wind--a knell indeed for all that had gone. [13]
Of a morning, mist floated into mist as far as eye could see, blue and grey and amethyst, a glamour of tints and velvety radiance. [11]
For many and many a year this very picture had visited their thoughts by day and floated through their dreams by night. [5]
He is the man who floated down the river on a log and brought back two hundred thousand percussion caps--" "Good Lord," interrupted the General, "I guess we all heard of him after that. [9]
Blue and white lotus-blossoms floated on the smooth surface of the water, and vast numbers of water-birds hovered along the shores or over the flood. [10]
As she looked, lost in a kind of dream, there floated up from the distant tent the refrain she knew so well: "Oh, say, where goes your love? [11]
The moon no longer stood forth in sharp outlines against the deep azure of the vaulted sky, but, robbed of its radiance, floated in a circle of dimly illumined mists. [10]
A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further. [5]
Nearby was a large, handsome house with its ample front illuminated in the same way, and above its roof floated the Star-Spangled Banner of America. [5]
It was a large and gorgeous barge of wood, polished all over and overlaid with gold, and its edge was decorated with glittering glass-beads, which imitated rubies and emeralds; the masts and yards were gilt, and purple sails floated from them. [10]
The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. [12]
So brilliant was it that all the space I floated in was full of the splendor. [4]
The fragrance of it floated to her nostrils. [5]
You will think it a simple thing, that song, and poor, perchance; but if you will remember what it was to us, and what it brought before our eyes when it floated through our memories, then you will respect it. [5]
The boat floated into the wharf to which it belonged. [12]
A dreary long interval after this, then the spectral sound floated to us once more--one, two three; and this time we caught our breath; sixty minutes of life left! [5]
In this atmosphere in which he was born Jack floated along without effort, with no demand upon him to keep up with a rising standard of living. [4]
Sometimes there floated in upon us the hum of revelry from the great drawing-room where Madame had her company. [9]
The timbers used in the construction of Solomon's Temple were floated to Jaffa in rafts, and the narrow opening in the reef through which they passed to the shore is not an inch wider or a shade less dangerous to navigate than it was then. [5]
Sparks floated before his eyes, in his ears was a sound like the breaking of a stormy sea on the shore; his cheeks glowed and he grasped the arm of Prexaspes who was at his side. [10]
The latter had his back towards her and was showing Bessie his dark velvet cap, surrounded by rectangular teeth, above which floated a beautiful light-blue ostrich-plume. [10]
Then he asked himself what Uarda's fate would be without her grandparents, and a strange plan which had floated vaguely before him for some hours, began now to take a distinct outline and intelligible form. [10]
Then she steadied herself and waited, catching bits of the loud talk which still floated towards her from without. [11]
The sunlight made her part of the brilliant landscape, and she floated into it, neither too dainty nor too luxurious. [11]
The moon, in her first quarter, floated in a haze. [9]
Whenever Juliane appeared, her face wore a friendly expression--nay, once, in a dream, she floated before her as if she wished to thank her, in the form of a beautiful angel with large pink and white wings. [10]
They were too heavy, they were too light, they were built of old material, and they went to the bottom, they went ashore, they broke up and floated in fragments. [4]
Through the sunny haze I saw the cows and deer grazing by the Serpentine, and out of the back of my eye handkerchiefs floated from the carriages banked at the gate. [9]
Mr. Worthington, whose hawklike look had become more pronounced, sat upright, while the Honorable Heth, his legs crossed, filled every nook and cranny of an arm-chair, and an occasional fragrant whiff from his cigar floated out to those on the tar sidewalk. [9]

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