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Sentences starting with floating

Floating about in each vat, we at first saw twenty or thirty human heads. [4]

Sentences ending with floating

On the face of the Noachian deluge innumerable forest trees were floating. [5]
St. Louis was a greater city, but its floating. [5]

More example sentences with the word floating in them

He came up with the floating flowers, and near enough to reach them. [6]
Then Amphitrite appeared, with floating hair and resonant voice, and beside her Poseidon with his four steeds. [10]
There is a whiff of something floating about, suggestive of toasting shingles. [6]
Those floating freaks which were all top and drew nothing, were loaded down to the guards with army stores and animals and wood and men, --men who came from every walk in life. [9]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
Nearly all were watching the rescue boat, though a few looked over the sides of the ship as if they expected to find bodies floating about. [11]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. [2]
The royal standard was not floating from the tower of the castle, and everything was quiet and lonely. [6]
A floating beam was held out to sinking men, and they would no longer wait for the life-boat that was approaching to rescue them, with strong hands at the oars and a trusty pilot at the helm. [10]
They said he was floating on his back in the water. [5]
It was a wail of sorrow, a march to the grave, a benediction, a soft sound of farewell, floating through the room and dying away into the mid-day sun. [11]
No signs of troubled times were to be seen in the floating home of the wanderers. [10]
It does not trouble them at all to see the watery spheres that round themselves into being out of the vapors floating over us; they are nothing but raindrops. [6]
Then a floating tree suddenly lunged up and struck him, so that he dropped upon a knee; but again he was up, and strained for the pier. [11]
And so they travelled on in silence for a long time, and slowly they came to the opal haze, which smelled sweet as floating flowers, and gave their hearts a halcyon restfulness. [11]
You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. [5]
But all that time my true passport had been floating gallantly overhead--and behold it was only our flag. [5]
The gallery was thronged with spectators, clustering like bees about the large windows, and the notes of the band came floating out over the lawn, bringing to the groups there the lulling impression that life is all a summer holiday. [4]
In an hour they were on the Amenhotep, and in two hours they were on the way--a floating hospital--to the infected district of Kalamoun. [11]
Some fishing-boats ride there; and the shallow water, as I look down this sunny morning, is thickly strewn with floating peels of oranges and lemons, as if some one was brewing a gigantic bowl of punch. [4]
The air and the words come floating down (for the words I knew years afterwards): 'Did ye see the white cloud in the glint o' the sun? [11]
At last came the sounds that I had waited for, and presently I knew by the tramp beneath, and by low laments floating up, that a wife was mourning over the dead body of her husband. [11]
Yet they knew the small clouds floating away from his head did not check his observation. [11]
And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side. [9]
I have seen the silver bullfinch floating along the canon. [11]
Could this be the rosy-cheeked angel who, floating along on the snow-white pony, had seemed to him like a happy creature from more beautiful worlds? [10]
They walked around the pond, --fringed now with yellow water-lilies on their floating green pads, --through the woods, and when the shadows were lengthening came out at the little summer-house over the valley of Silver Brook--the scene of that first memorable encounter with the Vicomte. [9]
For an instant the people in the room were a confused mass, floating away into a blind distance. [11]
The rest of the page was resolved into a filmy floating substance, no more tangible than the ashy skeleton on which writing still lives when the paper itself has been eaten by flame, and the flame swallowed by the air. [11]
At five in the morning, the bathers enter it, and remain until ten o'clock,--five hours, having breakfast served to them on the floating tables, "as they sail, as they sail. [4]
Tied up to the Manitou shore were a half- dozen cribs or rafts of timber which should be floating eastward down the Sagalac. [11]
I have seen the ice in the Mississippi floating past the mouth of the Arkansas river; and at Memphis, but a little way above, the Mississippi has been frozen over, from bank to bank. [5]
And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down. [5]
Leaning far over the edge of the boat he seized the floating garment of the drowning creature--it was a woman, no Daimon nor shade--and drew her towards him. [10]
In the silence that ensued, the hum of distant voices borne upon the evening air came floating through the open window. [12]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
Fearful of the suck, we crept along the Indian shore until we counted the boats moored in the Bear Grass, and presently above the trees on our right we saw the Stars and Stripes floating from the log bastion of Fort Finney. [9]
Tears of emotion stood in Nefert's eyes, and when Uarda flung herself into her arms she said: "The forlorn swan has found its kindred, the floating leaf has reached the shore, and must be happy now! [10]
Their finely-formed limbs, steeled by the training of the Palaestra, and the raven, chestnut, and golden locks floating around their well-shaped heads, were indeed beautiful. [10]
As I lay staring upward, odd little bits of the past came floating to the top of my mind, presently to be pieced together. [9]
Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky. [2]
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections! [6]
Then out of some remote corner of that vast place there rose a plaintive voice, and in tones most tender and sweet and rich came floating through that enchanted hush our poor old simple song "L'Arbre Fee Bourlemont! [5]
After a long sojourn abroad, it seemed becoming that he should know something of the floating life of his own country. [4]
She believed that she clearly distinguished them sporting joyously up and down through the azure water, now plunging into the depths with their feet, and now with their heads foremost, anon floating gently on the surface of the waves. [10]
While Marcus was restlessly wandering on the shore of Mareotis, dreaming of Dada's image and arranging speeches of persuasive eloquence by which to touch her heart and appeal to her soul, silence had fallen on the floating home of the singers. [10]
There is something rather sublime in thus floating on a single spar in the wide sea of a populous, busy, fuming, fussy world like this. [6]
Far off the purple mist drew into mist, As thought melts into endless thought, and round The rim of the sheer world was heard a sound, Floating through palpitating amethyst. [11]
A long, gold-broidered purple mantle, floating to his ancles, increased his apparent stature. [10]
The idea of popular sovereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born--indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. [7]
A small seal playing by himself near the shore, floating on and diving under the breakers, is not so very disagreeable, especially if he comes so near that you can see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in this perpetual summer resort are disgustingly attractive. [4]
The throng of pilgrims grew a vague mass; no longer an army of individuals; and the music came floating back with distant charm. [11]
I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark; so I knowed the river had begun to rise. [5]
It seemed to Pentaur that he could see the souls of these two, floating above the youthful creature in holy union as they joined their hands; and again he thought of his parents' house, of the hour when his sweet, only sister died. [10]
Meanwhile, as they passed up the street, the droning, vibrating voice of the bear-leader came floating along the air and through the voices of the crowd like the thread of motive in the movement of an opera. [11]
Then I saw pallid faces, dimly luminous, and white uplifted hands, floating bodiless in the air--floating a moment and then disappearing. [5]
His mind was overflowing with thought as a river in the season of flood, and was full of floating fragments from an endless variety of sources. [6]
Music came floating over the waters--Venice was complete. [5]
It is not only in my dreams; the hideous gray threads which proceed from this greedy spider are continually floating before me and dim the light. [10]
It brought tears of shame into Beaton's eyes--the fine, smouldering, floating eyes that many ladies admired, under the thick bang--and he said to himself that if he were half a man he would go home and go to work cutting gravestones in his father's shop. [8]
The extreme sensitiveness of her father on this point prevented any allusion to them; but there were stories floating round, some of them even getting into the papers,--without her name, of course,--which were of a kind to excite intense curiosity, if not more anxious feelings. [6]
He could think of but one Providential event adequate to the emergency,--an event foreshadowed by various recent circumstances, but hitherto floating in his mind only as a possibility. [6]
Fifty years from now we shall all be dead, I trust, and then this flag, if it still survive (and let us hope it may), will be floating over a Republic numbering 200,000,000 souls, according to the settled laws of our increase. [5]
All that miserable night those ancient verses went floating back and forth through my brain: And when, in exile wand'ring, we Shall fainting yearn for glimpse of thee, Oh, rise upon our sight! [5]
The dancing frenzy must have seized upon her while she was dressing; for she was in her bodice, bare-armed, her hair floating unbound far below the waist of her barred or banded skirt. [6]
After that, you must expect soon to find yourself alone, if you are still floating, with only a life-preserver to keep your old white-bearded chin above the water. [6]
I think it must be a case of history actually repeating itself, and not a case of a good story floating down the ages and surviving because too good to be allowed to perish. [5]
A dizziness seized me, my head sank upon his shoulder, and I felt myself floating away into darkness, while from a great distance came a voice: "It had been kinder to have ended it last year. [11]
And through the marvels of the Inland Seas, and by white conestogas threading flat forests and floating over wide prairies, until the two tides met in a maelstrom as fierce as any in the great tawny torrent of the strange Father of Waters. [9]
He decided to make a floating trip down the Rhone, and he engaged Joseph Very, a courier that had served him on a former European trip, to accompany him. [5]
There was a long silence, profound and unbroken; then a deep, sullen boom came floating down out of the distance. [5]
Each had a little table floating before him or her, which he or she pushed about at pleasure. [4]
He stood motionless, like the figure of a man on one of his mother's ancient vases, staring in bewilderment after the flying figure of Happiness, whom he might easily have caught by her floating locks. [10]
Ever and anon, like a tiny silver cloud floating across the firmament, white sails glided by. [10]
It questions the light of the sun, and detects the vaporized metals floating around the great luminary,--iron, sodium, lithium, and the rest,--as if the chemist of our remote planet could fill his bell-glasses from its fiery atmosphere. [3]
Some of them lie half in water, their tails floating and their ungainly heads wagging. [4]
He did not know how to paddle with a single oar, and was hopelessly rowing round and round, his oar all the time floating farther away from him. [6]
They still believe it, and that is why they bathe in it and drink it, caring nothing for its seeming filthiness and the floating corpses. [5]
He looked her in the face--he was so little like a peasant, so much more like a sailor here with his feet on the deck of a floating thing. [11]
Thou Vision, floating in the breathless air Between me and the fairest of the stars, I tell my lonely thoughts as unto thee. [6]
So, says I, I'll keep a lookout, and if any of them's floating around after me I'll give them a show. [5]
The first thing I remember about it is that I was floating upward, without any sense of effort on my part. [6]
At any rate, I cannot help referring this paradise of twisted spines to some idea floating in her head connected with her friend whom Nature has warped in the moulding.--That is nothing to another transcendental fancy of mine. [6]
One day, when hunger and thirst were making their sure inroad; upon the men's strength and spirits, a floating barrel was seen at a distance. [5]
Presently Tom found himself once more the chief figure in a wonderful floating pageant on the Thames; for by ancient custom the 'recognition procession' through London must start from the Tower, and he was bound thither. [5]
The stiff, fashionable high Spanish ruff no longer confined his handsome head with its floating golden locks. [10]
The thought of her lover forced its way through all her sorrow and anxiety, through the reproaches she heaped upon herself and the vague plans floating in the air which her brain--unaccustomed to any serious thought, vainly tried to sketch for the future. [10]
It seemed to her as if she were in the habitation of sleep, and as if phantoms and dreams were floating around her on the unfamiliar noises. [10]
The fact is, Henry, that I'm about tired of trying to force myself into things, and am quite willing to try floating with the stream for a while, and see where I will land. [5]
And, turn where he would, he seemed to see floating in the air the severed head and the remembered face of the great Duke of Norfolk, the eyes fixed on him reproachfully. [5]
Gustave Dore must have learned here how to make those ghostly pictures of the lost floating about in the Stygian pools, in his illustrations of the Inferno; and the rocks and cavernous precipices may have enabled him to complete the picture. [4]
A Newfoundland dog had been showing off his accomplishments, and some of the idlers were betting as to the time it would take him to bring back to his master the various floating objects which had been thrown as far from the shore as possible. [6]
It is a great historical creek with four feet in the channel and some scows floating around. [5]
Suddenly, as she gazed, a shot rang out down the valley, and two of the pigeons came tumbling to the ground, a stray feather floating after. [11]
There was no gas, there were no candles; a bronze dish half full of boarding-house butter with a blazing rag floating in it was the thing that produced what was regarded as light. [5]
And the fancy gained reality in his mind; he saw a floating human form which beckoned him and softly laid a cold hand on his shoulder. [10]
He threw himself fully into his part--a young rancher made deputy sheriff, who by the occasional exercise of his duty had incurred the hatred of a small floating population that lived by fraud, violence, and cattle-stealing. [11]
You shall imagine for yourselves what the excitement was like and how it expressed itself, when Joan rode out at the head of the host with her banner floating above her. [5]

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