1.   Benjamin and I had hardly exchanged a word, even when the boat glided by Syon Convent.

2.   Beneath us, our boat glides like a puck across freshly buffed ice.

3.   But on balmy summer afternoons, there are few better and more interesting ways to see London than from the deck of a cruise boat gliding along the Thames.

4.   The big river boats will glide up the river from New Orleans, weighted down with tourists, timing their arrival with the lighting of the fires.

5.   The boat glides past million-dollar homes, and the big engines growl in reverse.

6.   Usually the air boats glide over the shallow waters of the Everglades, miles inland from here.