Word: glides
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...rapidly on the seniors, but the latter had evidently been waiting for this, and now having reached the smooth water for which they had been steering, they quickened their stroke, and threw their whole weight on to their oars. The result was immediately apparent, for they seemed to glide away from their opponents at a rapid rate. The sophomores and freshmen were still struggling for last place, with the chances in favor of the latter. All the crews quickened their stroke at this point somewhat...
...glide slowly past the shore...
...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...
...show this quality in sitting down, a lady should push her dress back with her right hand, and glide gently but firmly down an imaginary inclined plane to the right. The aesthetics come in in so timing the operation that the hand may be slipped out just before it is too late...
Swift torrents glide adown with silvery feet...